@article{ref1,
title="Values as protective factors against violent behavior in Jewish and Arab high schools in Israel",
journal="Child development",
year="2008",
author="Knafo, Ariel and Daniel, E. and Khoury-Kassabri, Mona",
volume="79",
number="3",
pages="652-667",
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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0009-3920",
doi="10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01149.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01149.x"
}