RELIGIOSITY AND SPHERE-SPECIFIC JUST WORLD BELIEFS IN 16-YEAR-OLD TO 18-YEAR-OLD

One hundred forty-three (31 female and 112 male) English school pupils , 16 to 18 years old, completed the Francis Scale of Attitudes towards Christianity (FSAC; Francis & Stubbs, 1987), the Global Belief in a J ust World Scale (GBJWS; Lipkus, 1991), and the Multidimensional Belief in a Just World Scale (MBJWS; Furnham & Procter, 1992). The MBJWS yie lds three subscale scores: Sociopolitical Just World Beliefs (SJW), In terpersonal Just World Beliefs (IJW), and Personal Just World Beliefs (PJW). Scores on the FSAC were not associated with scores on the GBJWS , the SJW, or the IJW, but they were positively associated, albeit wea kly, with scores on the PJW.