Recent research has
identified youth who utilize both aggressive and prosocial behavior with peers.
Although the social values and motivations associated with aggression and
prosocial behavior have been well studied, the values of youth who utilize both
aggression and prosocial behavior are unknown.
The current study identified
groups of adolescents based on peer nominations of aggression and prosocial
behavior from both Israel (n = 569; 56.94 % Arab, 43.06 %
Jewish; 53.78 % female) and the United States (n = 342;
67.54 % African-American; 32.46 % European-American; 50.88 % female).
Self-enhancement, self-transcendence, openness-to-change, and conservation
values predicted behavioral group membership. Power values predicted membership
in the aggressive group relative to the aggressive-prosocial, prosocial, and
low-both groups. For Israeli boys, openness-to-change values predicted
membership in the aggressive-prosocial group relative to the prosocial group.
The values of aggressive-prosocial youth were more similar to the values of
prosocial peers than to aggressive peers, suggesting that motivational
interventions for aggressive-prosocial youth should differ in important ways
than those for aggressive youth.
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By:
- 1Department of Psychology, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, 35487, USA. klmcdonald2@ua.edu.
- 2Department of Counseling and Human Development, University of Haifa, 3498838, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel.
- 3Department of Social Sciences, The State University of New York at Delhi, Delhi, NY, 13753, USA.
- 4Department of Psychology, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, 35487, USA.
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