Values and Personal Life Investment in Middle-Age: Measures and Relations

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• 作者：Merja Hietalahti ; Asko Tolvanen ; Katja Kokko
• 关键词：Values ; Personal life investment ; Factor structure ; Middle ; age
• 刊名：Journal of Adult Development
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：22
• 期：4
• 页码：206-220
• 全文大小：478 KB
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• 作者单位：Merja Hietalahti (1)
  Asko Tolvanen (1)
  Katja Kokko (2)
  
  1. Department of Psychology, University of Jyv?skyl?, P.O. Box 35, 40014, Jyv?skyl?, Finland
  2. Gerontology Research Center, Department of Health Sciences, University of Jyv?skyl?, Jyv?skyl?, Finland
  
• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Psychology
  Psychology
  Personality and Social Psychology
  Clinical Psychology
  Aging
  Cognitive Psychology
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-3440

文摘

The present study analyzed the factor structure of Schwartz Value Survey (SVS; 46 items) and the personal life investment (PLI; 10 items) scale, as well as the mutual relations between these two measures. The 50-year-old participants (n = 217-24) were drawn from the ongoing Finnish Jyv?skyl? Longitudinal Study of Personal and Social Development. For the SVS, the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) supported the 14-factor structure: achievement, tradition, stimulation, hedonism, security, conformity, power, universalism (with sub-factors of societal concern, tolerance and protecting nature), benevolence (with sub-factors of caring and dependability) and self-direction (with sub-factors of autonomy of action and autonomy of thought). Using these 14 factors, the CFA confirmed the existence of higher-order factors with both two (person-focused and social-focused dimensions) and four factors (self-transcendence, self-enhancement, conservation and openness to change). In assessing personal life investments, three factors emerged using CFA: soul-searching (items of cognition, independence, life reflection and death), basic needs (sexuality, family and work) and pleasure (health, leisure and friends). The three PLI factors and 14 SVS items related to each other in some ways. For example, soul-searching correlated statistically significantly and positively with all three of universalism’s sub-factors (societal concern, tolerance, and protecting nature). Basic needs correlated positively with achievement and benevolence (dependability). Finally, pleasure correlated positively, for example, with benevolence (caring), and hedonism. Keywords Values Personal life investment Factor structure Middle-age