Justice sensitivity's impact on strike outcomes in Germany and France

IF 1.3 4区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED

European Review of Applied Psychology-Revue Europeenne De Psychologie Appliquee Pub Date : 2024-09-01 DOI:10.1016/j.erap.2024.101008

Denise Vesper , Cornelius J. König, Laura Pöschel

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Abstract

Introduction

Injustices are often described as causes for strikes.

Objective

With this study, we aimed to test if trait justice sensitivity (victim and observer sensitivity) was related to strike attitudes, willingness to strike, and non-normative strike behavior and if these relations were mediated by the traits of anger or empathy. Additionally, we compared samples from two countries (Germany and France) in the respective measures.

Method

We collected data from 424 participants (231 were German, 193 were French) using an online questionnaire and established scales. Hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling.

Results

We observed that the effect of victim justice sensitivity on willingness to strike and non-normative strike behavior was mediated by anger. Furthermore, empathy mediated the effect of observer justice sensitivity on the legitimacy of strikes and the support of strikers. The overall model was not moderated by country.

Conclusion

We showed for the first time that trait variables also play a significant role in strike outcomes. Our results imply that national differences in industrial relations systems did not influence our model significantly. Results also indicated (unexpectedly) that French participants reported significantly lower willingness to strike, significantly more negative reactions towards strikes, less legitimacy of strikes, and less support of strikers compared to the German sample – differences that warrant further research examining potential reasons.

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司法敏感性对德国和法国罢工结果的影响

本研究旨在检验特质正义敏感性（受害者敏感性和观察者敏感性）是否与罢工态度、罢工意愿和非正常罢工行为有关，以及这些关系是否受愤怒或同情特质的调节。此外，我们还比较了来自两个国家（德国和法国）的样本在相应测量中的表现。方法我们使用在线问卷和既定量表收集了 424 名参与者（其中 231 人为德国人，193 人为法国人）的数据。结果我们观察到，受害者司法敏感性对罢工意愿和非正常罢工行为的影响是由愤怒所中介的。此外，移情对观察者司法敏感性对罢工合法性和罢工者支持的影响具有中介作用。结论我们首次发现，特质变量在罢工结果中也起着重要作用。我们的结果表明，劳资关系制度的国家差异并没有对我们的模型产生重大影响。结果还显示（出乎意料的），与德国样本相比，法国受试者的罢工意愿明显较低、对罢工的负面反应明显较多、罢工的合法性较低以及对罢工者的支持较少，这些差异值得进一步研究其潜在原因。

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European Review of Applied Psychology-Revue Europeenne De Psychologie Appliquee PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED-

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期刊介绍： The aim of the Revue européenne de Psychologie appliquée / European Review of Applied Psychology is to promote high-quality applications of psychology to all areas of specialization, and to foster exchange among researchers and professionals. Its policy is to attract a wide range of contributions, including empirical research, overviews of target issues, case studies, descriptions of instruments for research and diagnosis, and theoretical work related to applied psychology. In all cases, authors will refer to published and verificable facts, whether established in the study being reported or in earlier publications.