The individualism/expectations of mobility factor is associated with perceptions of distributive justice, and the sign of the regression coefficient is as expected. Hence, as a group meritocratic individualists are less likely to perceive income distribution as unfair. Nevertheless, this factor has little predictive capacity, given that it enters the stepwise regression only in the fifth stage, without increasing the variance explained by the model. A unique characteristic of stepwise regression models is that they are used to select predictors according to their partial correlations with the dependent variable, which eliminates the variance shared by the predictors.