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| Post-Materialism Index× | Schwartz Value Survey× | |
|---|---|---|
| Field | Political Psychology | Political Psychology |
| Family | Process / pipeline | Process / pipeline |
| Year of origin≠ | 1971 | 1992 |
| Originator≠ | Ronald Inglehart | Shalom H. Schwartz |
| Type≠ | Ranked-priorities value index | Self-report values survey |
| Seminal source≠ | Inglehart, R. (1971). The silent revolution in Europe: Intergenerational change in post-industrial societies. American Political Science Review, 65(4), 991-1017. DOI ↗ | Schwartz, S. H. (1992). Universals in the content and structure of values: Theoretical advances and empirical tests in 20 countries. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 25, 1-65. DOI ↗ |
| Aliases | Inglehart Index, Materialist-Postmaterialist Index, Four-Item Values Index | SVS, Schwartz Theory of Basic Values, Portrait Values Questionnaire |
| Related | 4 | 4 |
| Summary≠ | The Post-Materialism Index, developed by Ronald Inglehart (1971), classifies individuals as materialist, postmaterialist, or mixed based on the priority they assign to physical and economic security versus self-expression, belonging, and quality of life. It operationalizes Inglehart's silent-revolution thesis that prosperity and security in postwar democracies caused an intergenerational shift from materialist to postmaterialist value priorities. | The Schwartz Value Survey (SVS) operationalizes Schwartz's (1992) theory of basic human values, which identifies ten (later refined to nineteen) motivationally distinct values organized in a circular structure along two axes: openness to change versus conservation, and self-enhancement versus self-transcendence. It is the most widely used cross-cultural values instrument and underlies much research on the value basis of political ideology. |
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