The construct of values is central to many fields in the social sciences and humanities. The
last two decades have seen a growing body of psychological research that investigates the …

Over the past decades, the concept of values has gone in and out of fashion within
sociology. Relatively recent advances in both the conceptualization and measurement of …

This original and engaging book advocates an unabashedly empirical approach to
understanding human values: abstract ideals that we consider important, such as freedom …

The Handbook of Moral Development is the definitive source of theory and research on the
development of morality. Since the publication of the first edition, ground-breaking …

Independent advances in the study of personality traits and personal values have clarified
their foundations, antecedents, content, structure, and measurement. Accumulating …

This study focused on value transmission in the family and assessed adolescents'
acceptance of the values their parents want to transmit to them (socialisation values) …

What determines adolescents' accuracy in perceiving parental values? The current study
examined potential predictors including parental value communication, family value …

The relations between parent and child acculturation and family and child adjustment were
examined among 91 immigrant Chinese families in Canada with early adolescents (average …

The dominant theories about the development of antisocial behaviour during adolescence
are based almost entirely on research conducted with mainstream, white, middle-class …

This study, based on 365 second-generation adolescents from five ethnic groups, examined
the cultural identity according to two orientations (ethnic and national) including two …