Portrait Values Questionnaire - 40 item.
PVQ-40
- What it measures
- Schwartz 10 basic values measured with verbal self-portraits (more items per value than the ESS-21)
- Length and format
- 40 portraits (3-6 per value). 6-point similarity rating (very much like me - not like me at all) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Dozens of authorised languages tracking the Schwartz value programme; widely adapted (ES, FR, DE, IT, PT, RU, PL, ZH, HE, AR, BCMS, etc.)
- Normative data
- Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Schwartz, S. H., et al. (2001). Extending the cross-cultural validity of the theory of basic human values with a different method of measurement. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 32(5), 519-542.
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