Maya Benish-Weisman
Biographic Data
| ID | 213052 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maya Benish-Weisman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maya |
| FAMILY NAME | Benish-Weisman |
| SIGNATURE | BENISH-WEISMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0717-6573 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Mapping longitudinal trajectories of personal values in elementary school: Unveiling roles of the classroom
Value transmission is a key societal responsibility, and value education has gained increasing global attention. Although classrooms represent important developmental environments for children's values, comparatively little is known about how different social actors within classrooms contribute to value development. This longitudinal study examined how classmates, teachers, and classroom relationships contribute to children's value development ov…
Bridging the gap between students' values and classroom behaviour: The moderating role of self-determined motivation
Educators strive to instil values in students, as these personal principles are believed to guide children's behaviour. However, research indicates the link between values and behaviour is weaker than anticipated. This study integrated Schwartz's Theory of Basic Personal Values and Self-Determination Theory to explore whether the relationship between students' values and their corresponding classroom behaviours is moderated by the type of motivat…
Aggression and personal values in immigrant adolescents: A longitudinal examination of reciprocal associations
This longitudinal study investigates the bidirectional relationship between personal values and aggressive behavior among immigrant adolescents from the Former Soviet Union residing in Israel. Using a 4-wave cross-lagged latent difference score modeling approach over 2 years, we examined the reciprocal associations between personal values and aggressive behaviors over time. The sample included 180 adolescents (mean age = 14.36 years, SD = 1.35; 4…
The role of personal values in opinion formation regarding a high-stakes continually evolving topic: The Hamas–Israel hostage deal negotiations
How do people form opinions in high-stakes situations, prevalent in times of conflict and crisis? We propose that personal values play a crucial role in shaping opinions and provide empirical evidence and novel insights about the process involved. We expected values to predict opinions regarding negotiations with armed groups to free hostages. Five Israeli samples ( N = 7,248; four preregistered, one longitudinal) participated during the Hamas-Is…
Children’s personal values and their behavior in the classroom in the early elementary school years: Mapping longitudinal trajectories
This study pioneers the examination of developmental trajectories of children’s personal values and their behavior in the classroom at the start of elementary school, exploring these dynamics of change in younger children. Additionally, we consider the classroom context, being an important but often overlooked setting for children’s value development. In a sample of 1,184 Swiss children ( Mean age at T1: 6.82 years) who self-reported their values…
Navigating Cultural Stress and Mental Health: A Longitudinal Study of Parent‐Adolescent Dynamics Among Former Soviet Union Families
INTRODUCTION: Cultural stressors during migration can shape family dynamics and impact mental health outcomes. This study investigates the relationship between cultural stress, parent-adolescent communication, and psychological well-being among Former Soviet Union (FSU) immigrant families in Israel. METHODS: This longitudinal survey study collected data at three time points. The first wave of data collection occurred between June and August 2020,…
Fostering Academic Performance in 5-Year-Olds: The Role of Self-Direction Values, Presented Self-Esteem, and Positive Self-Perception
Self-direction values, which reflect the need for autonomy, creativity, curiosity, and mastery, potentially hold substantial importance in educational settings. However, limited research exists on how these values contribute to academic performance, particularly in early childhood. This study aims to fill this gap by examining the relationships between kindergarten children’s self-direction values and their academic performance while considering …
Linking self-transcendence values to classroom prosocial behavior: The Mediating Role of Teachers’ Autonomy Support in Elementary School Students
This longitudinal study explored whether students’ self-transcendence values predicted their classroom prosocial behavior through perceived teachers’ autonomy support. Participants in this three-wave study were 395 fourth and fifth grade students (52% female, mean age = 9.41 at T1). In fourth grade, students reported their self-transcendence values. Four months into fifth grade, students assessed teachers’ autonomy support, and their teachers eva…
Relations Between Social Anxiety and Identity Formation Among Adolescents: Social Participation and Self-Esteem as Resilience Resources
This study investigated the relationship between normal variations in adolescent social anxiety, as reported by both youths and their mothers, and three key factors of identity formation: commitment, in-depth exploration, and reconsideration of commitment. It also explored the moderating role of social participation and self-esteem in these relationships. Data from 186 mother-adolescent pairs revealed social anxiety negatively correlated with com…
Personal values and social behavior in early childhood: Understanding the contribution of social information processing and attitudes
Values, defined by Schwartz (1994) as basic motivational cognitive structures, guide life goals, transcend contexts, and affect individuals’ courses of action differently depending on their preferred values. With young children, an important question that emerges is what factors underlie the linkages between their preferred motivations (i.e., preferred values) and their behavior tendencies in key social contexts. This study proposed one potential…
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; M …
The Contribution of Peer Values to Children’s Values and Behavior
Personal values have a key role in determining people’s perceptions, judgments, and behaviors. Only a handful of studies examined determinants of children’s values outside the family. We used longitudinal data on children’s values from 15,008 children in Grades 3 to 9, and homeroom teachers’ reports about the behaviors of 3,476 of these children. As predicted, peers’ values were positively correlated with the strengthening of children’s correspon…
Changes in Personal Values in Pandemic Times
The COVID-19 pandemic has had immense impact on people’s lives, potentially leading individuals to reevaluate what they prioritize in life (i.e., their values). We report longitudinal data from Australians 3 years prior to the pandemic, at pandemic onset (April 2020, N = 2,321), and in November–December 2020 ( n = 1,442). While all higher order values were stable prior to the pandemic, conservation values, emphasizing order and stability, became …
The revealing effect of power: Popularity moderates the associations of personal values with aggression in adolescence
OBJECTIVE: Values have been found to predict aggressive behavior in adolescents. Adolescents who endorse self-enhancement values typically exhibit more aggressive behaviors, while adolescents who endorse self-transcendent values are less likely to behave aggressively. The associations between values and aggression are low to moderate, suggesting that other factors might moderate them. The study examined whether these associations were moderated b…
Value Profiles During Middle Childhood: Developmental Processes and Social Behavior
Little is known about how children's value priorities develop over time. This study identifies children's value priority profiles and follows their development during middle childhood. Australian children (N = 609; ages 5–12 at Time 1) reported their values over 2 years. Latent Transition Analysis indicated four profiles: Social-Focus, Self-Focus, Growth-Focus and Undifferentiated. Within person development was characterized by profile stability …
Values and adolescents' self‐esteem: The role of value content and congruence with classmates
The study examined the relations between adolescents’ self‐esteem and two aspects of values: content and congruence with classmates. Using a large sample of Israeli adolescents ( N = 1,683; M age = 14.36, SD = 2.24, range = 11–18, 54.31% females), we found that self‐esteem related negatively to self‐enhancement values and positively to conservation values using zero order correlations. Multilevel polynomial regressions, controlling for demographi…
Value Profiles and Perceived Job Performance of Social Workers in Israel
Values play a crucial role in the credo of social work. Recent definitions of the profession delineate the values that should guide social work worldwide. At the same time, social workers’ employment patterns and changes in the traditional welfare state have resulted in fragmentations in the profession, highlighting the importance of shared professional values. This study is the first to examine value profiles endorsed by social workers, as well …
Value development during adolescence: Dimensions of change and stability
OBJECTIVE: Value change stability was examined in a longitudinal sample of Jewish and Arab Israeli adolescents. METHOD: = 13.76, SD = 0.52, at initial assessment) reported value importance at four annual evaluations. RESULTS: Adolescents increased in values' internal coherence and rank-order stability. Their value hierarchy was consistent and differentiated from the hierarchy of adults. Latent growth curve analyses indicated a similar pattern of …
The role of psychologists in international migration research: Complementing other expertise and an interdisciplinary way forward
This research note addresses the current and potential future role of psychologists in the study of international migration. We review ways in which psychologists have contributed to the study of migration, as well as ways in which psychological scholarship could be integrated with work from other social science fields. Broadly, we discuss four major contributions that psychology brings to the study of international migration-studying migrants' i…
Seeking the help of school counselors: Cross-cultural differences in mothers’ knowledge, attitudes, and help-seeking behavior
Teachers’ agency: Do their values make a difference
This research explored antecedents and outcomes of teachers’ agency. Study 1 ( n = 767) tested whether teachers’ values relate to an agentic capacity. Study 2 ( n = 430) tested the relations between teachers’ values, their agentic capacity and their agentic behaviours. The findings show that attributing importance to promoting the self and being open to new experiences, whilst maintaining self‐independence, is positively related to agentic capaci…
Identifying and Distinguishing Value Profiles in American and Israeli Adolescents
Although research has examined how values are correlated with behavior, little has examined how the system of values predicts behavior. In a cross‐cultural sample of American (109 European American; 216 African American) and Israeli (318 Arab Israeli; 216 Jewish Israeli) adolescents, the present study used latent profile analysis to identify groups which reflected the theoretical structure of values across both cultures. Four profiles were found:…
The associations between national identity and adjustment: What can we learn from autobiographical narratives
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 relatio…
Private Self‐consciousness and Gender Moderate How Adolescents' Values Relate to Aggression
The relationship between values and aggression and the moderating roles of gender and private self‐ consciousness ( PSC ) on these relations were examined. Participants were 642 A rabic and J ewish adolescents in I srael ( M age = 13.79, SD = .51; 53.9 percent females). Values and PSC were measured by self‐reports and aggression was measured by peer nominations. Aggression was positively correlated with self‐enhancement and openness to change val…
The interplay between values and aggression in adolescence: A longitudinal study
Values, or the guiding standards of adolescents' lives, influence which behaviors are considered more justified than others. The relationship between values and social behavior has been established across many studies including the relationship of values and aggression. But only a few studies have examined these relationships among youth. Moreover, a question that remains open is the direction of these relationships. The present study examined th…
Cultural values and outgroup negativity: A cross‐cultural analysis of early and late adolescents
Based on Schwartz' theory of cultural values, the present research tested whether the level of outgroup negativity among adolescents is influenced by the preferred values shared by the individual's cultural group. Furthermore, it was expected that this correspondence increases during adolescence, due to (individual and social) identity development in that age period. Measures of cultural values as well as derogatory attitudes towards outgroups we…
Parents Differentiate Between Their Personal Values and Their Socialization Values: The Role of Adolescents' Values
This study focuses on the differentiation process, involving the emergence of a distinction between parents' own personal values and their socialization values (the values they want their children to adopt), and on the contribution of children's values to their parents' socialization values. Measures of personal and socialization values were administrated to 603 Israeli adolescents and their parents. As we hypothesized, parents differentiate betw…
Life Quality of Russian Immigrants to Israel: Patterns of Success and of Unsuccess
Cultural identity and perceived success among Israeli immigrants: An emic approach
Values and adolescents' self‐esteem: The role of value content and congruence with classmates
The study examined the relations between adolescents’ self‐esteem and two aspects of values: content and congruence with classmates. Using a large sample of Israeli adolescents ( N = 1,683; M age = 14.36, SD = 2.24, range = 11–18, 54.31% females), we found that self‐esteem related negatively to self‐enhancement values and positively to conservation values using zero order correlations. Multilevel polynomial regressions, controlling for demographi…
Private Self‐consciousness and Gender Moderate How Adolescents' Values Relate to Aggression
The relationship between values and aggression and the moderating roles of gender and private self‐ consciousness ( PSC ) on these relations were examined. Participants were 642 A rabic and J ewish adolescents in I srael ( M age = 13.79, SD = .51; 53.9 percent females). Values and PSC were measured by self‐reports and aggression was measured by peer nominations. Aggression was positively correlated with self‐enhancement and openness to change val…
Value Profiles and Perceived Job Performance of Social Workers in Israel
Values play a crucial role in the credo of social work. Recent definitions of the profession delineate the values that should guide social work worldwide. At the same time, social workers’ employment patterns and changes in the traditional welfare state have resulted in fragmentations in the profession, highlighting the importance of shared professional values. This study is the first to examine value profiles endorsed by social workers, as well …
The associations between national identity and adjustment: What can we learn from autobiographical narratives
Between Trauma and Redemption: Story Form Differences in Immigrant Narratives of Successful and Nonsuccessful Immigration
Many immigrants find immigration a stressful experience. Whereas some overcome the initial feeling of being overwhelmed, others are frustrated and disappointed years after their immigration. In this study, 22 people who emigrated from the former USSR to Israel in the early 1990s were interviewed regarding their immigration experiences and the resulting narratives analyzed. The immigrants chosen represented the extreme poles of the success experie…
The role of psychologists in international migration research: Complementing other expertise and an interdisciplinary way forward
This research note addresses the current and potential future role of psychologists in the study of international migration. We review ways in which psychologists have contributed to the study of migration, as well as ways in which psychological scholarship could be integrated with work from other social science fields. Broadly, we discuss four major contributions that psychology brings to the study of international migration-studying migrants' i…
Relations Between Social Anxiety and Identity Formation Among Adolescents: Social Participation and Self-Esteem as Resilience Resources
This study investigated the relationship between normal variations in adolescent social anxiety, as reported by both youths and their mothers, and three key factors of identity formation: commitment, in-depth exploration, and reconsideration of commitment. It also explored the moderating role of social participation and self-esteem in these relationships. Data from 186 mother-adolescent pairs revealed social anxiety negatively correlated with com…
The Social Values of Aggressive–Prosocial Youth
Between Trauma and Redemption: Story Form Differences in Immigrant Narratives of Successful and Nonsuccessful Immigration
Many immigrants find immigration a stressful experience. Whereas some overcome the initial feeling of being overwhelmed, others are frustrated and disappointed years after their immigration. In this study, 22 people who emigrated from the former USSR to Israel in the early 1990s were interviewed regarding their immigration experiences and the resulting narratives analyzed. The immigrants chosen represented the extreme poles of the success experie…
Cultural values and outgroup negativity: A cross‐cultural analysis of early and late adolescents
Based on Schwartz' theory of cultural values, the present research tested whether the level of outgroup negativity among adolescents is influenced by the preferred values shared by the individual's cultural group. Furthermore, it was expected that this correspondence increases during adolescence, due to (individual and social) identity development in that age period. Measures of cultural values as well as derogatory attitudes towards outgroups we…
Cultural identity and perceived success among Israeli immigrants: An emic approach
PAR on the Couch: A Discussion Between Disciplines
The discipline of psychology covers many fields under its professional umbrella (e.g., cognitive, social, clinical, neuropsychological). Too often discussions of research and theory are conducted in one field with almost no connection to any of the other fields. While this strategy creates specialization and expertise, it leaves little space for reevaluation or reexamination of basic assumptions inside a particular field. This paper wishes to cha…
Life Quality of Russian Immigrants to Israel: Patterns of Success and of Unsuccess
Parents Differentiate Between Their Personal Values and Their Socialization Values: The Role of Adolescents' Values
This study focuses on the differentiation process, involving the emergence of a distinction between parents' own personal values and their socialization values (the values they want their children to adopt), and on the contribution of children's values to their parents' socialization values. Measures of personal and socialization values were administrated to 603 Israeli adolescents and their parents. As we hypothesized, parents differentiate betw…
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 relatio…
Private Self‐consciousness and Gender Moderate How Adolescents' Values Relate to Aggression
The relationship between values and aggression and the moderating roles of gender and private self‐ consciousness ( PSC ) on these relations were examined. Participants were 642 A rabic and J ewish adolescents in I srael ( M age = 13.79, SD = .51; 53.9 percent females). Values and PSC were measured by self‐reports and aggression was measured by peer nominations. Aggression was positively correlated with self‐enhancement and openness to change val…
The Social Values of Aggressive–Prosocial Youth
The interplay between values and aggression in adolescence: A longitudinal study
Values, or the guiding standards of adolescents' lives, influence which behaviors are considered more justified than others. The relationship between values and social behavior has been established across many studies including the relationship of values and aggression. But only a few studies have examined these relationships among youth. Moreover, a question that remains open is the direction of these relationships. The present study examined th…
Identifying and Distinguishing Value Profiles in American and Israeli Adolescents
Although research has examined how values are correlated with behavior, little has examined how the system of values predicts behavior. In a cross‐cultural sample of American (109 European American; 216 African American) and Israeli (318 Arab Israeli; 216 Jewish Israeli) adolescents, the present study used latent profile analysis to identify groups which reflected the theoretical structure of values across both cultures. Four profiles were found:…
The associations between national identity and adjustment: What can we learn from autobiographical narratives
Value development during adolescence: Dimensions of change and stability
OBJECTIVE: Value change stability was examined in a longitudinal sample of Jewish and Arab Israeli adolescents. METHOD: = 13.76, SD = 0.52, at initial assessment) reported value importance at four annual evaluations. RESULTS: Adolescents increased in values' internal coherence and rank-order stability. Their value hierarchy was consistent and differentiated from the hierarchy of adults. Latent growth curve analyses indicated a similar pattern of …
The role of psychologists in international migration research: Complementing other expertise and an interdisciplinary way forward
This research note addresses the current and potential future role of psychologists in the study of international migration. We review ways in which psychologists have contributed to the study of migration, as well as ways in which psychological scholarship could be integrated with work from other social science fields. Broadly, we discuss four major contributions that psychology brings to the study of international migration-studying migrants' i…
Seeking the help of school counselors: Cross-cultural differences in mothers’ knowledge, attitudes, and help-seeking behavior
Teachers’ agency: Do their values make a difference
This research explored antecedents and outcomes of teachers’ agency. Study 1 ( n = 767) tested whether teachers’ values relate to an agentic capacity. Study 2 ( n = 430) tested the relations between teachers’ values, their agentic capacity and their agentic behaviours. The findings show that attributing importance to promoting the self and being open to new experiences, whilst maintaining self‐independence, is positively related to agentic capaci…
Value Profiles During Middle Childhood: Developmental Processes and Social Behavior
Little is known about how children's value priorities develop over time. This study identifies children's value priority profiles and follows their development during middle childhood. Australian children (N = 609; ages 5–12 at Time 1) reported their values over 2 years. Latent Transition Analysis indicated four profiles: Social-Focus, Self-Focus, Growth-Focus and Undifferentiated. Within person development was characterized by profile stability …
Values and adolescents' self‐esteem: The role of value content and congruence with classmates
The study examined the relations between adolescents’ self‐esteem and two aspects of values: content and congruence with classmates. Using a large sample of Israeli adolescents ( N = 1,683; M age = 14.36, SD = 2.24, range = 11–18, 54.31% females), we found that self‐esteem related negatively to self‐enhancement values and positively to conservation values using zero order correlations. Multilevel polynomial regressions, controlling for demographi…
Value Profiles and Perceived Job Performance of Social Workers in Israel
Values play a crucial role in the credo of social work. Recent definitions of the profession delineate the values that should guide social work worldwide. At the same time, social workers’ employment patterns and changes in the traditional welfare state have resulted in fragmentations in the profession, highlighting the importance of shared professional values. This study is the first to examine value profiles endorsed by social workers, as well …
The revealing effect of power: Popularity moderates the associations of personal values with aggression in adolescence
OBJECTIVE: Values have been found to predict aggressive behavior in adolescents. Adolescents who endorse self-enhancement values typically exhibit more aggressive behaviors, while adolescents who endorse self-transcendent values are less likely to behave aggressively. The associations between values and aggression are low to moderate, suggesting that other factors might moderate them. The study examined whether these associations were moderated b…
The Contribution of Peer Values to Children’s Values and Behavior
Personal values have a key role in determining people’s perceptions, judgments, and behaviors. Only a handful of studies examined determinants of children’s values outside the family. We used longitudinal data on children’s values from 15,008 children in Grades 3 to 9, and homeroom teachers’ reports about the behaviors of 3,476 of these children. As predicted, peers’ values were positively correlated with the strengthening of children’s correspon…
Changes in Personal Values in Pandemic Times
The COVID-19 pandemic has had immense impact on people’s lives, potentially leading individuals to reevaluate what they prioritize in life (i.e., their values). We report longitudinal data from Australians 3 years prior to the pandemic, at pandemic onset (April 2020, N = 2,321), and in November–December 2020 ( n = 1,442). While all higher order values were stable prior to the pandemic, conservation values, emphasizing order and stability, became …
Personal values and social behavior in early childhood: Understanding the contribution of social information processing and attitudes
Values, defined by Schwartz (1994) as basic motivational cognitive structures, guide life goals, transcend contexts, and affect individuals’ courses of action differently depending on their preferred values. With young children, an important question that emerges is what factors underlie the linkages between their preferred motivations (i.e., preferred values) and their behavior tendencies in key social contexts. This study proposed one potential…
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; M …
Children’s personal values and their behavior in the classroom in the early elementary school years: Mapping longitudinal trajectories
This study pioneers the examination of developmental trajectories of children’s personal values and their behavior in the classroom at the start of elementary school, exploring these dynamics of change in younger children. Additionally, we consider the classroom context, being an important but often overlooked setting for children’s value development. In a sample of 1,184 Swiss children ( Mean age at T1: 6.82 years) who self-reported their values…
Psychology (29 works) · Social Psychology (23 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (22 works) · Developmental psychology (22 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Openness to experience (7 works)