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One problem which can be observed in the field of EFL/ESL learning is that a number of English major
BA and MA students are not highly committed to their major and decide not to continue their graduate
studies. Sometimes even graduate students from English majors prefer to extend their education or
work in an unrelated field. This might be attributed to the extent to which they perceive evaluation
procedures and outcomes as fair. Considering this, the present study investigates first the relationships
between justice judgments, outcomes and identity orientations. The study, then, uses structural
equation modeling in order to examine whether identity orientation has any mediating effect on the
relationship between justice judgment and outcomes. Participants were74 students in Department of
Foreign Languages and Linguistics, Shiraz University selected based on convenience sampling. They
filled out three questionnaires on distributive and procedural justice judgments, rule compliance and
outcome satisfaction, and personal and social identity orientations. The collected data was then
analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlation, and structural equation modeling. Based on the
obtained findings, procedural justice had significant positive correlation with rule compliance and
distributive justice was significantly correlated with outcome satisfaction. The generated structural
equation model also indicated that justice judgments only directly affected outcomes and identity had
no mediating effect on the causal relationship between the two.
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