TY - JOUR
T1 - Stability and change of basic personal values in early adulthood
T2 - An 8-year longitudinal study
AU - Vecchione, Michele
AU - Schwartz, Shalom
AU - Alessandri, Guido
AU - Döring, Anna K.
AU - Castellani, Valeria
AU - Caprara, Maria Giovanna
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2016/8/1
Y1 - 2016/8/1
N2 - We examined four types of stability and change in values during young adulthood. 270 respondents (aged 20-28, 54% female) completed the Portrait Values Questionnaire at three time points, separated by 4 years. Rank-order stability coefficients of the 10 values averaged 0.69 (T1-T2) and 0.77 (T2-T3). The mean importance of conservation, self-transcendence, and power values increased over time, the mean importance of achievement values decreased, and openness to change values remained stable. For 75% of respondents, the correlations of the within-person value hierarchies exceeded 0.45 from T1 to T2 and 0.61 from T2 to T3. Correlations among individual change scores for the 10 values formed coherent patterns of value change that mirror the circular structure of Schwartz's theory.
AB - We examined four types of stability and change in values during young adulthood. 270 respondents (aged 20-28, 54% female) completed the Portrait Values Questionnaire at three time points, separated by 4 years. Rank-order stability coefficients of the 10 values averaged 0.69 (T1-T2) and 0.77 (T2-T3). The mean importance of conservation, self-transcendence, and power values increased over time, the mean importance of achievement values decreased, and openness to change values remained stable. For 75% of respondents, the correlations of the within-person value hierarchies exceeded 0.45 from T1 to T2 and 0.61 from T2 to T3. Correlations among individual change scores for the 10 values formed coherent patterns of value change that mirror the circular structure of Schwartz's theory.
KW - Basic personal values
KW - Longitudinal value change
KW - Value profiles
KW - Value stability
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jrp.2016.06.002
DO - 10.1016/j.jrp.2016.06.002
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AN - SCOPUS:84975317378
SN - 0092-6566
VL - 63
SP - 111
EP - 122
JO - Journal of Research in Personality
JF - Journal of Research in Personality
ER -