This is an empirical study exploring the relationship between a comprehensive measure of values {the Schwartz Value Survey) and an indigenous, self-report measure of moral behaviors in Chinese secondary students. Value constructs were identified using both a factor analysis and a Smallest Space Analysis of an 11-region sample {N =1, 841) of high school students in the People's Republic of China. These value constructs were then correlated with single-factor measures of prosocial and antisocial behavior in a separate sample of 360 secondary students from Beijing and Tianjin. Regression equations showed that the factor labeled Social Harmony and the domain labeled Universalism-Benevolence-Conformity were the most powerful predictors of both prosocial and antisocial behaviors. These results were discussed in light of prior research on moral behavior, and their implications for adolescent socialization were explored.

Key words: morality, values, delinquency, moral behavior, adolescent socialization