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Schwartz Value Survey×Post-Materialism Index×
FieldPolitical PsychologyPolitical Psychology
FamilyProcess / pipelineProcess / pipeline
Year of origin19921971
OriginatorShalom H. SchwartzRonald Inglehart
TypeSelf-report values surveyRanked-priorities value index
Seminal sourceSchwartz, 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 ↗Inglehart, R. (1971). The silent revolution in Europe: Intergenerational change in post-industrial societies. American Political Science Review, 65(4), 991-1017. DOI ↗
AliasesSVS, Schwartz Theory of Basic Values, Portrait Values QuestionnaireInglehart Index, Materialist-Postmaterialist Index, Four-Item Values Index
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SummaryThe 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.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.
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