An Exploratory Study on the Relationship Between Justice and Social Conflict and the Mediating Role of Trust and Communi
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An Exploratory Study on the Relationship Between Justice and Social Conflict and the Mediating Role of Trust and Communication Dong-Jin Lim 1 Received: 9 February 2020 / Accepted: 2 October 2020/ # Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract
This study aimed to analyze the effect of Korean people’s awareness of justice on the level of social conflict and the roles of trust and communication as mediating factors. Using the survey data obtained from 8000 Korean people in 2016, the study’s main findings are the following. First, the average values of justice and social conflict reveal that the respondents thought that Korean society is not fair and that social conflict is a serious issue. Second, the awareness of justice had a positive effect on the factors of trust and communication. This indicates that people who perceived society as fair were also more likely to perceive higher levels of trust and communication. Third, justice was the most influential factor on the level of social conflict, followed by trust in social institutions. Fourth, people’s age, education, and income levels also showed differences in the level of perception of social conflict. Finally, trust in social institutions was a mediating factor in the relationship between justice and social conflict and thus reduced the seriousness of social conflict. Keywords Justice . Perception of social conflict . Relationship between justice and social conflict . Trust and communication . Mediation effect
Introduction Conflicts are inevitable in human society as they are an inherent aspect of humankind (Mikula and Wenzel 2000; Jeong 2008). Conflicts occur at various social levels, ranging from individuals and groups to society and even states (Carpenter and Kennedy 2001). In South Korea (hereafter Korea), social conflicts began to be recognized as social issues in the mid1980s. During this time, Korean people voiced their opinions regarding human rights and many other social problems, as they had been previously oppressed by the authoritative * Dong-Jin Lim [email protected]
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Department of Public Administration, Soonchunhyang University, Asan-si, South Korea
Asian Journal of Criminology
military regimes. Their voices emerged during the democratization phase, mainly over conflicts surrounding labor and environmental problems. Since the 1990s, the restoration of the local system of autonomy, the extension of individual rights, and democratic development have expanded various social conflicts between different regions, classes, or ideologies, which had been repressed. The level of social conflict in Korean society is serious compared with international standards. Korea’s social conflict index is the second worst among Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries2 following Turkey (Park 2013a). The most serious issue concerning social conflicts in Korea is that they generate enormous costs and negative effects. Social conflicts incur many direct or indirect expenses, including astronomical economic costs, property loss for conce
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