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Values as Protective Factors Against Violent Behavior in Jewish and Arab High Schools in Israel
Author(s) -
Knafo Ariel,
Daniel Ella,
KhouryKassabri Mona
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01149.x
Subject(s) - psychology , conformity , judaism , universalism , variance (accounting) , developmental psychology , social psychology , suicide prevention , poison control , injury prevention , clinical psychology , demography , medical emergency , medicine , accounting , sociology , politics , political science , law , business , archaeology , history
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.