On the relationship between justice judgments, outcomes and identity orientations among Iranian EFL learners:A structural equation model

One problem which can be observed in the field of EFL/ESL learning is that a number of English majorBA and MA students are not highly committed to their major and decide not to continue their graduatestudies. Sometimes even graduate students from English majors prefer to extend their education orwork in an unrelated field. This might be attributed to the extent to which they perceive evaluationprocedures and outcomes as fair. Considering this, the present study investigates first the relationshipsbetween justice judgments, outcomes and identity orientations. The study, then, uses structuralequation modeling in order to examine whether identity orientation has any mediating effect on therelationship between justice judgment and outcomes. Participants were74 students in Department ofForeign Languages and Linguistics, Shiraz University selected based on convenience sampling. Theyfilled out three questionnaires on distributive and procedural justice judgments, rule compliance andoutcome satisfaction, and personal and social identity orientations. The collected data was thenanalyzed using descriptive statistics, correlation, and structural equation modeling. Based on theobtained findings, procedural justice had significant positive correlation with rule compliance anddistributive justice was significantly correlated with outcome satisfaction. The generated structuralequation model also indicated that justice judgments only directly affected outcomes and identity hadno mediating effect on the causal relationship between the two.

کلیدواژه ها:

justice judgments ، outcomes ، identity orientations ، structural equation modeling