Evoluţia şi rafinarea conceptualizării şi măsurării sensibilităţii faţă de nedreptate
Evolution and refinements of conceiving and measuring sensitivity to injustice

Summary/Abstract: Justice sensitivity (or sensibility to injustice) represents an individual characteristic ortrait that permits interpersonal differentiation with respect to the readiness and intensity people respond when acknowledging injustice. The main goal was to analyze the conceptualization and measurement of justice sensitivity over a quarter of a century from the time it appeared in the interdisciplinary research of social justice. The authors identified three distinct periods in the evolution of research on justice sensitivity. For each stage, the essential changes in terms of conceptualization and measurement are highlighted. În the conceptualization of the construct, the evolution in time of a two-dimensional definitional space is identified. This space is framed by the axis of indicators or essential components and the axis of the perspectives of relating to injustice. Regarding the measurement of the construct, the evolution and the reason of a wide measurement variation are shown. It is explained how, from a very long initial instrument, with four components and a single perspective of reporting to injustice, composed of 64 items, it gradually became an ultra-short instrument, containing two components and four perspectives within only 8 items. It is emphasized that, although the measurement scales have changed a lot, the previously accumulated data are compatible with the latest data, only limited to a single reporting perspective. Finally, it is insisted that in the investigation of justice sensitivity it is important to keep in definition and at the level of measurement the affective component, because it is the only one that is essential for understanding and seizing the core of the construct.

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