The Relationship between Belief in an Unjust World and Aggressive Reaction Consider to the Interaction Function of Conscientiousness and Cognition

This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the moderating role of cognitive attribution and conscientiousness in the relationship between belief in an unjust world and aggressive reaction of male students. Participants were the male students of high school, among them 196 persons were selected using stratified random sampling. Research instrument were the Belief in an Unjust World Questionnaire (Dalbert et al, 2001), the Aggressive Reaction Questionnaire (Golparvar & Javadian, 2010), the Three Scenarios of Cognitive Attribution (Golparvar & Javadian, 2010) and the Conscientiousness Questionnaire (Goldberg, 1992). Data were analyzed using Pearson’s correlation coefficient and hierarchical regression analysis. Results revealed that, cognitive attribution and conscientiousness moderates the relationship between belief in an unjust world and aggressive reaction of male students. Simple slope analysis showed that in low conscientiousness, in cognitive hostile attribution, there is positive significant relationship between belief in an unjust world and aggressive reaction of male students, but in high conscientiousness, in cognitive hostile attribution, there was not significant relationship between belief in an unjust world and aggressive reaction of male students.