Conceptualizing values abstractly: Longitudinal development and the role of concept formation and working memory

Misgav, Kinneret; Daniel, Ella

doi:10.1016/j.cogdev.2022.101267

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“…Equivalence in meaning was also established across age groups, including adults, adolescents, and children (Daniel et al, 2020(Daniel et al, , 2023Döring et al, 2015). Although some developments were identified (Misgav et al, 2023;Misgav & Daniel, 2022), values appear to be similar in meaning across ages. Consequently, values can be useful for comparison of motivations across age groups as well.…”

Section: (8) Applicability and Validation Across Populationsmentioning

confidence: 96%

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

Daniel,

Weisman,

Chomsky

2024

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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.

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Section: (8) Applicability and Validation Across Populationsmentioning

confidence: 96%

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

Daniel,

Weisman,

Chomsky

2024

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“…Importantly, it provided initial evidence that cognitive progress in this age relates to children’s value abstraction. Children’s working memory longitudinally predicted later value abstraction indirectly, via children’s ability to form general concepts (Misgav & Daniel, 2022).…”

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The Development of Values in Middle Childhood: Five Maturation Criteria

Knafo-Noam,

Daniel,

Benish-Weisman

2023

Curr Dir Psychol Sci

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Values, abstract motivational goals—guides for the right and wrong, the desirable and undesirable—relate to many important attitudes and behaviors. Although meaningful understanding of values exists already at age 5, most developmental value research has focused on adolescence. Not enough is known about what happens to children’s values during middle childhood, the period between these two life stages. We propose five criteria for value maturation, reflecting key cognitive and social advances in this period: (a) that children’s value coherence increasingly reflects the motivational associations among values and that, with age, values become increasingly (b) abstract (c) consistent, (d) stable, and (e) related to behavior. Values undergo profound developmental changes during middle childhood indicating that, the importance of adolescence notwithstanding, middle childhood is crucial for value maturation.

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Middle childhood development in personal values

Daniel,

Misgav,

Chomsky

2023

Journal of Personality

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ObjectiveWe aimed to investigate value change and stability longitudinally in middle childhood.BackgroundValues are the aspect of personality defining one's aspirations. Research identifies meaningful values in middle childhood, yet we know little about the process of their development within individual.MethodChildren (N = 298; 53.7% girls, Mage = 7 years and 3 months, SD = 7.70 months, at the first time point) four times, annually.ResultsRank‐order stability increased with age and decreased with time‐span. We found value hierarchy consistency, with value hierarchy similar to adolescents in the priority given to openness to change versus conservation values, and to adults in the priority given to self‐transcendence values. Latent growth curve analyses indicated linear increase in openness to change, and curvilinear increase in self‐transcendence values, and linear decrease in conservation and self‐enhancement values, with some differences across ages. Value structure was better differentiated with age. Compatible values changed in similar, and conflicting values in opposite directions.ConclusionsThis paper suggests that in middle childhood, children can already report stable values. Moreover, middle childhood is characterized by coherent change patterns, of increase in the importance of growth, and decrease in the focus on conflicting protection values.

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Conceptualizing values abstractly: Longitudinal development and the role of concept formation and working memory

Cited by 4 publications

References 83 publications

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

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

The Development of Values in Middle Childhood: Five Maturation Criteria

Middle childhood development in personal values

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