Abstract: One hundred and twenty-six expatriate managers of a large global-operating German company participated in a cross-sectional questionnaire study. Traditionally, personality traits and socio-demographic data have been used as predictors for ...
Quality of Close Relationships - A Product of Value Consensus and Partnership DurationSummary: Unmarried, childless couples (n = 67) in a close relationship for more then six months and less than ten years (age between 16 and 36 years) rated the ...
The early years after finishing an apprenticeship and entering the labor market constitute a very important phase in the life of a young person. Individual values learned and developed during the earlier life course seem to influence the decisions for ...
This article deals with social representations of children's rights, analysed in a sample of Italian adolescents with differing educational experiences. A questionnaire was distributed to a sample of 410 Italian adolescents aged between 13 and 17 ...
Homosexual HIV-positives suffer under a double stigma. Moreover, many heterosexuals still associate HIV/AIDS with homosexuality (Herek & Capitanio, 1999). This study examined the connection between belief in a just world, sexual morality and values on the ...
The Measurement of Values with the “Portrait Value Questionnaire”Abstract: In this study we use two samples (N = 321, N = 395) to validate a 40-item German version of the “Portraits Value Questionnaire” (PVQ). The PVQ is an instrument newly developed by ...
Values of generation Y nurses compared to generation X and baby boomers – A cross-sectional studyAbstract.Background: Several studies point to special behaviours of generation Y employees. Research question: Starting from ...
Research with adult subjects has provided evidence for the validity of Schwartz’ (1992) theory on the structure of values. However, information about children and adolescents is scarce. Using the Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ-29) to test the ...
The relation between authoritarianism and social dominance orientation was analyzed, with authoritarianism measured using a three-dimensional scale. The implicit multidimensional structure (authoritarian submission, conventionalism, authoritarian ...
Rights and duties are normative social representations that organize social interactions. In this article, representations of rights and duties were analyzed in Italy and Albania, focusing on their social anchoring in culture and values. Italians ...
Sacred Value Measure (SVM): Construction and validation of an instrument to assess sacred valuesAbstract. Sacred values (or protected values) (in German: Geschützte Werte, GW) are values that a community treat as absolute, not tradable and exchangeable ...
Zusammenfassung. Ein zieltheoretisches Modell zur Erklärung von Veränderungen in individuellen und gesellschaftlichen Werten wird vorgeschlagen. Die Theorie besagt im Kern, dass Menschen ihre Werte durch alltägliche Handlungserfahrungen, die sie in ihrem ...
The Role of Job-Related Flexibility and Individual Values in Retaining Employees in the Modern Work Environment (Work 4.0)Abstract. In the modern work environment, new employment opportunities generally mean less frequently a long-...
Three cross-sectional studies examined stability and change in personality over the course of life by measuring the relations linking age to personality traits, self-efficacy beliefs, values, and well-being in large samples of Italian male and female ...
Abstract. This paper addresses some of the generalized theories explaining rising suicide rates in Ireland. The conclusion here is that linking suicide patterns to changing beliefs and values is problematic. Church attendance as well as adherence to ...
We examine how the traits and values of both candidates and voters contribute to political choice, using the five-factor model of traits and the Schwartz (1992) theory of basic personal values. 1,164 subjects reported their voting intention, their own ...
This study used longitudinal data from the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) to examine links between mothers' nonauthoritarian child-rearing attitudes, assessed when children were aged 5, and children's values at age 30 (antiracism, right-wing beliefs, ...
Falling levels of electoral participation in established democracies have raised serious concern. We investigate the role of basic personal values in identifying those who do not vote. We argue that voting in specific elections offers non-voters less ...
Abstract. The Openness to Experience personality dimension has been challenged for its lack of independence from other personality constructs. In order to test whether Openness is an independent trait, we applied the following psychometric tests to a ...
Abstract. The Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ) comprises 10 basic values that guide behavior. The Schwartz model postulates that these 10 values build a circumplex structure. We examined the PVQ with respect to its dimensional structure using a ...