Study Fordyce (1972): study US 1971
- Public:
- University students, USA, 1971
- Sample:
- Respondents:
- N = 86
- Non Response:
- -
- Assessment:
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Questionnaire: paper
And content analysis
Correlate
- Authors's label
- Value dimensions
- Our Classification
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- 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
-Males : r = -.17 (ns)
-Females : r = -.21 (ns)
-Males : r = -.01 (ns)
-Females : r = -.06 (ns)
-Males : r = +.16 (ns)
-Females : r = -.02 (ns)
-Males : r = +.08 (ns)
-Females : r = -.06 (ns)
-Males : r = -.10 (ns)
-Females : r = -.12 (ns)
-Males : r = -.01 (ns)
-Females : r = +.36 (01)