Values as Protective Factors Against Violent Behavior in Jewish and Arab High Schools in Israel
- 16 May 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Child Development
- Vol. 79 (3), 652-667
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01149.x
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.Keywords
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