Coping Strategy and Hardiness in the folder of Belief in Just World: A Comparative Study Among Executives of Public and Private Sector Organizations

Abstract

The belief in a just world increases an individual’s sense of security, self-control, life satisfaction, the ability to use functional coping strategy, sense of coherence, trust in people, sense of justice and thereby allowing 
effective functioning. The belief in a just world may be of two types: personal (the belief in a personal just world, where events in one’s own life tend to be just) and the general (the belief in a general just world, where everybody is treated fairly). The aim of the present study is twofold: to explore the personal and general belief in just world among executives of junior and senior rank position of public and private sector organization and to find out the interrelationship among belief in just world (personal and general), coping strategy and hardiness of executives. Data were collected from randomly selected 238 executives (private and public sector). The result reveals that public and private sector executives depicted different levels of General and Personal belief in just world. Both just-world beliefs were found to correlate positively with functional coping strategy and negatively with 
dysfunctional coping strategy. Both just-world beliefs were found to correlate positively with hardiness.