Values as protective factors against violent behavior in Jewish and Arab high schools in Israel.

Full Abstract

This study tested the hypothesis that values, abstract goals serving as guiding life principles, become relatively important predictors of adolescents' self-reported violent behavior in school environments in which violence is relatively common. The study employed a students-nested-in-schools design. Arab and Jewish adolescents (N = 907, M age = 16.8), attending 33 Israeli schools, reported their values and their own violent behavior. Power values correlated positively, and universalism and conformity correlated negatively with self-reported violent behavior, accounting for 12% of the variance in violent behavior, whereas school membership accounted for 6% of the variance. In schools in which violence was more common, power values' relationship with adolescents' self-reported violence was especially positive, and the relationship of universalism with self-reported violence was especially negative.

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Author information

Author/s: Knafo, Ariel (A); Daniel, Ella (E); Khoury-Kassabri, Mona (M);

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel. msarielk(-atsign-)mscc.huji.ac.il

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Child development (Child Dev), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: -2008 May-Jun; vol 79 (issue 3) : pp 652-67

Dates: Created 2008/05/20; Completed 2008/07/17;

PMID: 18489419, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Adolescent
Adolescent Behavior - ethnology
Adolescent Psychology
Analysis of Variance
Arabs - ethnology
Attitude - ethnology
Beneficence
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Factor Analysis, Statistical
Female
Humans
Israel - epidemiology

Israel - epidemiology
Jews - ethnology
Linear Models
Male
Models, Psychological
Philosophy
Power (Psychology)
Questionnaires
Social Conformity
Social Values - ethnology
Students - psychology
Violence - ethnology; prevention & control

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