ARTICLE
TITLE

Functional Theory of Values: Results of a Confirmatory Factor Analysis with Portuguese Youths

SUMMARY

This study aims to test the functional theory of life values with Portuguese youths, based on the Basic Values Survey (BVS). A content hypothesis predicting a six-dimensional values model and a structure hypothesis predicting the representation of values into two space dimensions are tested. Participants include 815 youths (444 girls) with a mean age of 15.3 years old (SDage = 1.89). The content hypothesis was verified using confirmatory factor analysis. The structure hypothesis was verified through confirmatory (proxscal) multidimensional scaling. The results indicate that the six sub functions of values (content hypothesis) can be organized in a bi-dimensional space with three types of orientation and two types of motivator (structure hypothesis). Concluding, multiple indicators provide evidence for the psychometric properties of BVS in Portugal.

PAGES
COLLECTIONS
Psychology

 Articles related

Nataliia Holikova, Kseniia Taranenko    

Goal. To study individual perceptions and personal meanings of the concept of “native language” in the minds of Ukrainians in the period from 2019 to now. Methods. Conceptual analysis (linguistic cultural theory (Karasik, 2002; Vorkachev, 2001)), compara... see more


Olga Lozova, Olena Lytvynenko    

Introduction. The article presents results of the study of personal narratives of adolescents with hearing and visual impairments, as well as their peers without relevant disorders. The aim of this work was to analyse the semantic indicators of personal ... see more


Federico Boem    

Riassunto: Nell’ambito delle associazioni simbiotiche ha acquisito credito crescente la cosiddetta prospettiva “olobiontica”, secondo cui animali e piante non dovrebbero più essere considerati entità autonome, con confini chiaramente delimitati, ma li si... see more


Sura Isnainy br Sembiring,Nurlela Nurlela,Rozanna Mulyani    

A text modality system is a set of views, judgments, and opinions about linguistic phenomena. The theory used in this research is Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), which M.A.K Halliday initiated. This study's problem was to analyze the types and val... see more


Yermia Djefri Manafe,Stevridan Yantus Neolaka    

Rituals have a function in people's lives that will last a long time and will not be easily lost, as it is said in the axioms of functional theory that everything that has a function will not easily disappear by itself, because it has always existed, has... see more