Study Fordyce (1972): study US 1971

Public:

University students, USA, 1971

Sample:

Respondents:

N = 86

Non Response:

-

Assessment:

Questionnaire: paper
And content analysis

Correlate

Authors's label

Value dimensions

Our Classification

Operationalization

Study of Values Inventory (see Allport et al., 1951). Six standardized scores were developed from Ss' responses to a number of value-related questions and choice procedures contained in the inventory.

a. Theoretical; (dominant interest in the discovery of truth, emperical, critical, rational, 'intellectual' approach)
b. Economic; (emphazising useful and practical values; 'average American businessman'
c. Aesthetic; (placing the highest values on form and harmony; judging and enjoying each unique experience by its grace, symmetry or fitness)
d. Social; (altruism, philantropy)
e. Political; (primarily interested in personal power, influence and renown)
f. Religious; (mystical, concerned with unity of all experience, and seeking to comprehend the cosmos as a whole)

Observed Relation with Happiness