RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Development of the Brief Personal Values Inventory for sense of values in the Japanese general population
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 479337
DO 10.1101/479337
A1 Sachiyo Ozawa
A1 Yudai Iijima
A1 Shuntaro Ando
A1 Naohiro Okada
A1 Tomoko Kawashima
A1 Kazusa Ohta
A1 Syudo Yamasaki
A1 Kiyoto Kasai
A1 Atsushi Nishida
A1 Hironori Nakatani
A1 Shinsuke Koike
YR 2018
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/11/26/479337.abstract
AB The Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ) is a widely used questionnaire for assessing sense of values; however, it has limitations, especially for children. Therefore, the present study aims to develop a questionnaire for sense of values, called the Brief Personal Values Inventory (BPVI), consisting of simple questions and a smaller number of items compared to the PVQ. We first created 12 items for the BPVI and then tested their validity and reliability in 167 Japanese general population (81 males, mean age (SD) [range]: 23.4 (8.2) [15-57] years). Each of these items was correlated with one or more values in the PVQ-57. The BPVI items covered all higher-order values in Schwartz’s theory (Openness to Change, Self-Enhancement, Conservation, and Self-Transcendence). In sum, the BPVI has an acceptable criterion-related validity and corresponds to higher-order values in Schwartz’s value theory. The BPVI is suitable for a reliable and direct comparison of sense of values between children and adults, which may be useful for elucidating the developmental pathway of personal sense of values.