TY - JOUR
T1 - Values and Behavior
T2 - Strength and Structure of Relations
AU - Bardi, Anat
AU - Schwartz, Shalom H.
PY - 2003/10/1
Y1 - 2003/10/1
N2 - Three studies address unresolved issues in value-behavior relations. Does the full range of different values relate to common, recurrent behaviors? Which values relate more strongly to behavior than others? Do relations among different values and behaviors exhibit a meaningful overall structure? If so, how to explain this? We find that stimulation and tradition values relate strongly to the behaviors that express them; hedonism, power, universalism, and self-direction values relate moderately; and security, conformity, achievement, and benevolence values relate only marginally. Additional findings suggest that these differences in value-behavior relations may stem from normative pressures to perform certain behaviors. Such findings imply that values motivate behavior, but the relation between values and behaviors is partly obscured by norms. Relations among behaviors, among values, and jointly among values and behavior exhibit a similar structure. The motivational conflicts and congruities postulated by the theory of values can account for this shared structure.
AB - Three studies address unresolved issues in value-behavior relations. Does the full range of different values relate to common, recurrent behaviors? Which values relate more strongly to behavior than others? Do relations among different values and behaviors exhibit a meaningful overall structure? If so, how to explain this? We find that stimulation and tradition values relate strongly to the behaviors that express them; hedonism, power, universalism, and self-direction values relate moderately; and security, conformity, achievement, and benevolence values relate only marginally. Additional findings suggest that these differences in value-behavior relations may stem from normative pressures to perform certain behaviors. Such findings imply that values motivate behavior, but the relation between values and behaviors is partly obscured by norms. Relations among behaviors, among values, and jointly among values and behavior exhibit a similar structure. The motivational conflicts and congruities postulated by the theory of values can account for this shared structure.
KW - Behavior
KW - Values
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0141542716&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0146167203254602
DO - 10.1177/0146167203254602
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C2 - 15189583
AN - SCOPUS:0141542716
SN - 0146-1672
VL - 29
SP - 1207
EP - 1220
JO - Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
JF - Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
IS - 10
ER -