System justification does not mediate the family wealth–dropout association once institutional trust is accounted for¶

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q3 i? Mediational paths from financial scarcity and low perceived family wealth through system justification attenuated to insignificance when institutional trust was included. → Finkenauer 2023

Evidence¶

Finkenauer 2023¶

Finkenauer, C., Boer, M., Spitzer, J., Weinberg, D., Visser, K., Jonker, M. & Stevens, G. W. J. M. (2023). Examining the role of civic attitudes in the link between family wealth and school dropout among tertiary vocational students. npj Science of Learning 8:38. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-023-00189-4

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Comparing mediation models M2b and M2c in the vocational-student study, paths through system justification were significant alone but "attenuated to insignificance in Model 2c" once institutional trust was added. The authors attribute this to the more abstract nature of system-justifying beliefs.

"In Model 2b, both financial scarcity and low perceived family wealth were indirectly related to dropout through lower levels of system justification. However, these mediational paths attenuated to insignificance in Model 2c (i.e., once institutional trust was taken into account; Fig. 1)."

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Related Claims¶

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