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Способствует ли вера в справедливый мир снижению коррупции: опосредующий эффект воспринимаемого наказания и роль психологического превосходства
Context and relevance. In the context of the persistent spread of corrupt practices, which pose a threat both to the functioning of state institutions and to public trust, there is an increasing need to analyze not only institutional, legal, and economic, but also psychological factors that contribute to their reproduction. In recent years, growing attention in research practice has been devoted to promising concepts and cognitive frames such as belief in a just world and a sense of psychological superiority, which are capable of explaining individual differences in the moral acceptability of corrupt behavior and the willingness to engage in it. Objective of the study. The aim of this study was to identify the relationship between belief in a just world and the propensity for corrupt behavior, taking into account the mediating role of perceived punishment and the moderating role of psychological superiority. Methods and materials. The online study covered 732 people (54% women, 46% men). The toolkit included a scale of psychological entitlement, a questionnaire of perceived propensity to corruption, a questionnaire of perceived punishment, a scale of faith in a just world, a scale of social desirability and a demographic reference. The results obtained made it possible to build a statistically sound moderation and mediation model in which perceived punishment acted as a mediator, and psychological entitlement as a moderator of corrupt intentions. A negative relationship with the tendency to corruption through the intermediary effect of perceived punishment was found only with faith in the justice of the world in relation to oneself, but not in a just world in general. Conclusions. Psychological entitlement as a moderator reduces the strength of the positive relationship between faith in a just world and perceived punishment.