DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE AMONG HONG-KONG CHINESE COLLEGE-STUDENTS

A naturalistic study of distributive justice judgment was made of Hong Kong Chinese college students (N = 112) who were asked to form small groups to work on two projects after the completion of which they filled out a questionnaire concerning the cohesiveness of the group, the contribution of each group member, and the fairness of giving the same grade to each group member. It was hypothesized that the perceived fairness of giving each group member the same grade would be positively related to group cohesiveness. It also was expected that the more the participants took into account considerations unrelated to contribution, such as the personality of the low contributors, their relationship with them, and the low contributors' previous contribution and work attitude, the more they would endorse an equality allocation rule. The results confirmed these hypotheses. © 1990 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.