Individual values and delinquency: on considering universals in the content and structure of values

Bilsky, Wolfgang; Hermann, Dieter

doi:10.1080/1068316x.2016.1202250

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“…As delinquent behavior is irrational and impulsive, it is reasonable to expect that materialism is positively associated with delinquency. Nevertheless, only a handful of studies have provided support for this proposed positive relationship: Bilsky and Hermann [ 12 ] showed that hedonism was positively related to adolescent delinquency; Froggio and Lori [ 13 ] showed that hedonistic and materialistic values were positively associated with deviance in a “modest” manner; Auerbach et al [ 14 ] revealed that materialism predicted greater risky behavior engagement (e.g., aggression and delinquency) in Chinese adolescents. There are also findings revealing that materialism is negatively linked to prosocial behavior.…”

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Concurrent and Longitudinal Predictors of Adolescent Delinquency in Mainland Chinese Adolescents: The Role of Materialism and Egocentrism

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Zhu

et al. 2020

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Background: Although studies have examined the influence of materialism on adolescent well-being, there are several methodological limitations: studies examining the influence of materialism on adolescent delinquency are almost non-existent; researchers commonly used cross-sectional designs; the sample size in some studies was not large; validated measures on materialism in non-Western contexts are rare; there are very few Chinese studies. Besides, no study has examined the hypothesis that egocentrism is the mediator in the influence of materialism on adolescent delinquency. Methods: Using a short-term longitudinal design, two waves of data were collected from 2648 early adolescents in mainland China. At each wave, students completed validated measures of materialism, egocentrism and delinquent behavior. Results: Materialism and egocentrism positively predicted adolescent delinquency at Wave 1 and Wave 2 and over time. While materialism at Wave 1 positively predicted increase in delinquency over time, egocentrism did not. However, PROCESS analysis showed that egocentrism mediated the longitudinal influence of materialism on adolescent delinquent behavior. Conclusions: Materialism and egocentrism are predictors of adolescent delinquency, with egocentrism serving as a mediator in the influence of materialism on adolescent delinquency.

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Concurrent and Longitudinal Predictors of Adolescent Delinquency in Mainland Chinese Adolescents: The Role of Materialism and Egocentrism

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“…The obvious hypothesis is that the PVQ scale fits better to the value circle theory, and the IVRS fits better to the value dimensions theory, because the scales have been developed out of these theories. Previous research (Bilsky & Hermann, 2016;Borg et al, 2017bBorg et al, , 2017c has shown that the IRVS fits well into the value circle framework. What has not been tested is whether the PVQ fits into Klages' value dimensions.…”

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Do the PVQ and the IRVS scales for personal values support Schwartz’s value circle model or Klages’ value dimensions model?

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Meas Instrum Soc Sci

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The paper compares the theoretical implications of two popular scales for the measurement of personal values, the Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ) of Schwartz et al. (J Cross-Cult Psychol, 32:519-542, 2001) and the IRVS of Hermann (Werte und Kriminalität: Konzeption einer allgemeinen Kriminalitätstheorie [Values and criminality: conception of a general theory of criminality], 2003; Zusammenstellung sozialwissenschaftlicher Items und Skalen, 2014). These scales come from psychology and sociology, respectively. They were developed, independently of each other, to serve different purposes, are based on different theories, and use different statistical models. We here study the validity of each scale for either theory. It is shown that using the PVQ methodology leads to similar and robust model solutions for data collected with either scale. Conversely, using the methodology that is standard for Individual Reflexive Value Scale (IRVS) data confirms the theoretical predictions for PVQ data but leads to unstable solutions for IRVS data. Nevertheless, the IRVS suggests "peace of mind" as an additional basic value and items that serve to complement the PVQ value circle. "Religion" is found to also fit into the structure of basic PVQ values but it contains a unique component.

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“…More generally, older people strive more for conservation values (tradition, conformity, security), and younger ones for the opposite, that is, for openness to change (hedonism, stimulation, self-direction). Yet these are just the values that were most correlated with norm acceptance in Bilsky and Hermann (2016). On the other hand, people in different age groups still differ between each other in their ratings of stimulation and tradition.…”

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“…Given this, conservation values (tradition, conformity, security) should show the largest positive correlations with norm acceptance and openness values (hedonism, stimulation, self-direction) should show the largest negative correlations with norm acceptance. Selfenhancement and self-transcendence values, in contrast, should remain unrelated with norm acceptance, as in Bilsky and Hermann (2016).…”

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“…The issues were appropriation of services, theft, drunken driving, bag-snatching, drug consumption, physical injury (assault), damage to property, tax evasion, social fraud, corruption, and hit and run driving. Norm acceptance was then operationalized as the mean score of a person's ratings of 'badness' across these delinquent acts (Bilsky and Hermann, 2016;Hermann, 2003Hermann, , 2004. 1 Personal values were assessed by using 25 of the IRVS items in studies 1-4.…”

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Utilizing personal values to explain people’s attitudes towards legal norms

Bilsky¹,

Borg

Hermann

2020

European Journal of Criminology

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The aim of this study is to clarify whether personal values explain delinquents’ and non-delinquents’ general attitudes towards legal norms. We expect that 10 basic personal values form a circular scale common to all individuals, both delinquents and non-delinquents, that people’s ratings of the importance of these 10 values predict their norm acceptance in a sinusoidal way, with higher predictability for delinquents, and that the correlations of personal values with norm acceptance are highest for those delinquents with a broad spectrum of offences. Finally, we expect that gender does not have an impact on these profiles, whereas controlling for age does. Our analyses are based on four studies on community crime prevention. The results are in line with the above expectations.

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Individual values and delinquency: on considering universals in the content and structure of values

Cited by 30 publications

References 48 publications

Concurrent and Longitudinal Predictors of Adolescent Delinquency in Mainland Chinese Adolescents: The Role of Materialism and Egocentrism

Concurrent and Longitudinal Predictors of Adolescent Delinquency in Mainland Chinese Adolescents: The Role of Materialism and Egocentrism

Do the PVQ and the IRVS scales for personal values support Schwartz’s value circle model or Klages’ value dimensions model?

Utilizing personal values to explain people’s attitudes towards legal norms

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