Claudia Dalbert is Professor of Psychology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. She has written numerous articles and books about the justice motive, including The Justice Motive as a Personal Resource: Dealing with Challenges and Critical Life Events(2001)., Hedvig Sallay is Assistant Professor at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. Her research has been concerned primarily with parenting and its consequences in adolescence.

• 1. Introduction Hedvig Sallay and Claudia Dalbert The Development of the Belief in a Just World 2. Parenting and yound adolescents' belief in a just world Claudia Dalbert and Matthias Radant 3. The development of the belief in a just world: The impact of being raised in a one-parent or an intact family Hedvig Sallay and Claudia Dalbert 4. Transmission of the belief in a just world in the family Ute Schönpflug and Ludwig Bilz 5. Transformation of the Justice motive? Belief in a just world and its correlates in different age groups Jürgen Maes and Manfred Schmitt The Belief in a Just World as a Resourse for Mental Health and Coping in Adolescence 6. Belief in a just world, subjective well-being and trust of young adults Isabel Correia and Jorge Vala 7. Belief in a just world, personality and well-being of adolescents Claudia Dalbert and Jozef Dzuka 8. The Implications and functions of just and unjust experiences in school Claudia Dalbert 9. Two facets of the belief in a just world and achievement behaviour at school Jürgen Maes and Elizabeth Kals 10. Belief in a just world as a resource for different types of young prisoners Kathleen Otto and Claudia Dalbert Belief in a Just World and Career Development 11. Belief in a just world as a resource for unemployed young adults Claudia Dalbert 12. Belief in a just world and young adults' way of coping with unemployment and the job search Vera Cubela Adoric 13. Entering the job market: Belief in a just world, fairness and well-being of graduating students Hedvig Sallay 14. Belief in a just world and adolescents' vocational and social goals Dorothea Dette, Joachim Stöber and Claudia Dalbert 15. Developmental trajectories and developmental functions of the belief in a just world: some concluding remarks Claudia Dalbert and Hedvig Sallay