title: Values as protective factors against violent behavior in Jewish and Arab high schools in Israel.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel. msarielk@mscc.huji.ac.il
authors.forename: Ariel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Knafo
authors.forename: Ella
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Daniel
authors.forename: Mona
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Khoury-Kassabri
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000208:ethnology; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D018912:Arabs / Q000208:ethnology*; D001290:Attitude / Q000208:ethnology; D026686:Beneficence; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel / Q000453:epidemiology; D007585:Jews / Q000208:ethnology*; D016014:Linear Models; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010684:Philosophy; D011209:Power, Psychological; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012925:Social Conformity; D012945:Social Values / Q000208:ethnology*; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014754:Violence / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control