PA GE 20
37 IPRC 2022/BOR D-Industrial and Organizational Psychology 02
Ideology Palliative: The Role of System Justifying Belief, Belief in A Just World and Conservative Ideology on Subjective Well-Being of The Labor Outsourcing
Istiqomah istiq.ask@gmail.com
Universitas Mercu Buana, Indonesia
ABSTRACT
Outsourcing creates uncertainty about the fate and income of labour workers. Research Berg found no correlation between income inequality and a person's subjective well-being and more related to socio- emotional. Social researchers place the role of ideology as special points in maintaining the existence of the system. This ideology will justify and rationalize inequality and recognize that people deserve the results they do. This ideology can function adaptively and has a positive relationship with psychological well-being. This study examined the relationship between the system justifying belief, belief in a just world and conservative ideology on subjective well-being of the labour outsourcing, using regression method and accidental sampling technique. A total of 321 labours, who work in companies, participated in this study by completing a set of questionnaires. The measuring instruments in this study consisted of satisfaction with life style (SWLS), positive and negative affect schedule (PANAS), economic system justification scale (ESJS), belief in a just world and classical conservatism scale. The results showed system justifying belief, belief in a just world and the conservative ideology has a significant and positive correlation to the cognitive aspects of subjective well-being. Meanwhile, belief in a just world and conservative ideology also have correlate to positive affect of subjective well- being. It means the higher the belief in system justifying belief, belief in a just world and the conservative ideology cause higher cognitive aspects of subjective well-being of labour outsourcing.
While the affective aspects of subjective well-being were not found correlated. This is because the measurement of the affective aspects is more influenced by individual personality. Indirectly these studies also describe the palliative function of ideology in helping to alleviate the disadvantaged groups (low economic status) in facing of inequality, so they preserved the belief that existing social arrangement are fair, legitimate and justifiable. Finally, further research is recommended to give greater attention to the development and modelling of subjective well-being by adding some variables that might justify further strengthen the relationship between system justifying belief, belief in a just world and conservative ideology on subjective well-being.
Keywords: system justifying belief, belief in a just world, conservative ideology and subjective well- being
