Values and National Identification in Minority and Majority Youth: Longitudinal Multi-Study Findings

Collective identification is vital for adolescents, fostering well-being and connection, but scant attention has been given to drivers of national identification and their contextual variations in youth. To address this, two longitudinal studies examined how values, as guiding goals defining what individuals consider important in their lives, relate to the trajectory of national identification in majority and minority youth. Study 1 (N = 568; Mage = 16.24, SD = 0.71) and Study 2 (N = 678; Mage = 13.78, SD = 0.73) focused on majority youth (Jewish-Israelis), while Study 2 also included minority (Arab citizens of Israel). The findings highlight values as important motivators of national identification over time. Conservation values, emphasizing the preservation of the status quo and a preference for stability, were prominent motivators for the majority of adolescents. In contrast, power values, which center around climbing the social ladder and accumulating wealth, held greater significance among their minority counterparts; however, both sets of values correlated with increased national identification. The discussion touches on motivations underlying national identification, their contextual diversity, and implications for future studies

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Applying Personal Values to Unveil Motivations Underlying Behaviors: Meta-Analysis of Values’ Relations with Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior as a Case-study

Why do individuals behave the way they do? This paper presents a theoretical framework aimed at enriching and elucidating our comprehension of human behaviors. We propose that a systematic examination of the dynamic structure of values that drive behavior can yield crucial insights into the nature of those behaviors. In this work, we review the stream of research applying motivation to understand behavior. Next, we provide a comprehensive definition of values, focusing on eight principles enabling values to be an especially useful motivational vehicle to shed light on human behavior. Subsequently, we illustrate this approach through a case study involving a meta-analysis that explores the values associated with both prosocial and antisocial behaviors. The meta-analysis elucidates both the commonalities and distinctions between these social behaviors by scrutinizing their underlying motivational patterns. Finally, we delve into the implications of this process of analyzing behaviors by their relation to values

Emotion Regulation Styles and Adolescent Adjustment

Emotion Regulation Styles and Adolescent Adjustment Following a COVID-19 Lockdow

The Moderating Role of Genetics: The Effect of Length of Hospitalization on Children's Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors.

The study considered individual differences in children's ability to adjust to hospitalization and found the length of hospitalization to be related to adaptive psychological functioning for some children. Applying the theoretical framework of three competing models of gene-X-environment interactions (diathesis-stress, differential susceptibility, and vantage sensitivity), the study examined the moderating effect of genetics (DRD4) on the relationship between the length of hospitalization and internalizing and externalizing problems. Mothers reported on children's hospitalization background and conduct problems (externalizing) and emotional symptoms (internalizing), using subscales of the 25-item Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (1). Data on both hospitalization and genetics were available for 65 children, 57% of whom were females, with an average age of 61.4 months (SD = 2.3). The study found length of hospitalization did not predict emotional and behavior problems per se, but the interaction with genetics was significant; the length of hospitalization was related to diminished levels of internalizing and externalizing problems only for children with the 7R allele (the sensitive variant). The vantage sensitivity model best accounted for how the length of hospitalization and genetics related to children's internalizing and externalizing problems