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Private Self‐consciousness and Gender Moderate How Adolescents' Values Relate to Aggression
Author(s) -
BenishWeisman Maya,
McDonald Kristina L.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
social development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.078
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1467-9507
pISSN - 0961-205X
DOI - 10.1111/sode.12122
Subject(s) - aggression , psychology , developmental psychology , openness to experience , self consciousness , consciousness , value (mathematics) , social psychology , neuroscience , machine learning , computer science
The relationship between values and aggression and the moderating roles of gender and private self‐ consciousness ( PSC ) on these relations were examined. Participants were 642 A rabic and J ewish adolescents in I srael ( M age = 13.79, SD = .51; 53.9 percent females). Values and PSC were measured by self‐reports and aggression was measured by peer nominations. Aggression was positively correlated with self‐enhancement and openness to change values, and negatively correlated with self‐transcendence and conservation values. The results also suggested that PSC and gender play an important role in moderating these relations. The study's contributions to value theory and its practical implications are discussed.