title: Brief report: early adolescents' value development at war time.
abstract: Values are considered relatively stable individual characteristics, and there is little research to date on the conditions that underlie value-priorities change. This small-scale short-term longitudinal study tested whether a major life event of war changes the priority that early adolescents assign to values. Thirty-nine Israeli adolescents completed the Schwartz Values Survey on four occasions-at the beginning, middle, and end of the 2006 Israeli-Lebanese war during which their hometown was bombed. As hypothesized, anxiety-based values of tradition, power, and security increased in importance, while conformity values decreased in importance. Anxiety-free values of benevolence, universalism, self-direction, stimulation, and hedonism decreased in importance. Achievement values decreased and then increased in importance. Despite methodological limitations, the findings demonstrate that value development, at least during early adolescence, can take place rather quickly under circumstances of major traumatic events such as war.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, University of Toronto, 3359 Mississauga Rd. N., Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6, Canada. ella.dn@gmail.com
authors.forename: Ella
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Daniel
authors.forename: Keren
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fortuna
authors.forename: Sophia K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Thrun
authors.forename: Shaylee
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cioban
authors.forename: Ariel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Knafo
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D064868:Ethnic Violence / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007557:Israel; D007861:Lebanon; D008016:Life Change Events; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D035863:Moral Development; D009042:Motivation; D011209:Power, Psychological; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012449:Safety; D012925:Social Conformity; D012933:Social Identification; D012945:Social Values
keywords: Early adolescence; Value development; Values; War