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ABSTRAK Suatu tindakan agresi dapat diterima dan dibiarkan oleh individu karena
dipersepsi legitim. Studi ini hendak menguji hipotesis bahwa keterancaman sistem
mempengaruhi persepsi legitimasi suatu tindakan agresi. Menurut system
justification theory, setiap individu berupaya untuk membela dan memberi
pembenaran terhadap sistem di mana ia menjadi bagiannya, khususnya ketika
sistem berada dalam keterancaman (system threat). Melalui metode eksperimen,
keterancaman ini diuji pada dua domain: sistem sosiopolitik dan sistem agama.
Dalam studi 1, keterancaman sistem sosiopolitik pada partisipan
mahasiswa tidak memberi efek yang signifikan terhadap persepsi legitimasi
perilaku agresi. Begitu pula halnya pada studi 2, tidak efek dari keterancaman
sistem agama eterhadap persepsi legitimasi agresi pada partisipan mahasiswa yang
diberi kondisis keterancaman tinggi. Meski tidak didapatkan perbedaan nilai yang
signifikan antara persepsi legitimasi agresi dalam kondisi keterancaman tinggi dan
keterancaman rendah, ada interaksi pada domain agama.
ABSTRACT An act of aggression is acceptable and tolerated because people perceive it
legitimate. This study test hypothesis that system threat effects on perceived
legitimacy of aggression. According to system justification theory, every
individual seeks to defend and justify their system, especially when the system is
under threat. Through experimental methods, system threat tested on two
domains: socio-political systems and religious systems.
In study 1, high threat exposure on socio-political systems have no
significant effect on the perception of the legitimacy of aggressive behavior.
Similarly, in study 2, no effect of system threat on perceived legitimacy of
aggression to participants who were given high threat condition on their religious
system. Although no significant effect were proven statistically from the two
experiments, we found there were slight interaction between system threat and its
effect on perceived legitimacy of aggression for religion domain."
