Journal of Applied Psychology 2001

Self-esteem and outcome fairness: Differential importance of procedural and outcome considerations.

Riël Vermunt^1,2; Daan van Knippenberg^1,3,4,5; Barbara van Knippenberg⁵; Eric Blaauw⁶

¹ Leiden University · ² University of Applied Sciences Leiden · ³ University of Skövde · ⁴ Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam · ⁵ University of Amsterdam · ⁶ Clinical Psychology

Abstract

Results of a survey of 222 detainees in Dutch jails and police stations showed that outcome-fairness judgments of individuals with high self-esteem were more strongly related to outcome considerations than to procedural considerations, whereas outcome-fairness judgments of individuals with low self-esteem were more strongly related to procedural considerations than to outcome considerations. It was proposed that these differences were due to the fact that (a) procedures more strongly express a social evaluation than outcomes and (b) individuals with low self-esteem are more concerned with social evaluations than individuals with high self-esteem. The implications of the results for other individual-differences factors and other populations than detainees are discussed.

DOI

10.1037/0021-9010.86.4.621

Sources

openalex

Cite

APA 7 MLA 9 Chicago (author–date) Harvard Elsevier Harvard (JFE, JBF…) The Accounting Review Academy of Management American Marketing Association INFORMS (Management Science) Copy citation Copied ✓