Study Gall et al. (1997): 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

Remarks

Correlations with second indicator (AFF 3.1B) not reported because these are quite similar.

Related specification variables

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