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Dear OB interest group members:

I am about to do a research project using Schwartz Value Survey inventory. However, I have no idea as to how can I get access to it. Can anyone help me with that?

Zhengdan Liu

Assistant Professor

Business School

Northeastern University

China

Dear OB interest group members:

I am about to do a research project using Schwartz Value Survey inventory. However, I have no idea as to how can I get access to it. Can anyone help me with that?

Zhengdan Liu

Assistant Professor

Business School

Northeastern University

China

Here is the reference:

Schwartz, S.H. (1992).  Universals in the Content and Structure of Values: Theoretical Advances and Empirical Tests in 20 Countries.  In Mark P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 1-65.  San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

My colleagues and I are also working on a revised version that exhibits higher reliability, however it is currently unpublished.  If you'd like a copy of the working paper, please let me know.

Cheers-

Laura

Laura Parks

Assistant Professor

Department of Management

James Madison University

540-568-5171

parksll@jmu.edu

Dear OB interest group members:

I am about to do a research project using Schwartz Value Survey inventory. However, I have no idea as to how can I get access to it. Can anyone help me with that?

Zhengdan Liu

Assistant Professor

Business School

Northeastern University

China

Hi Zhengdan,

Schwartz has come up with 2 ways of measuring his universal values.  The first is a simple list of values and respondents rate how important a given value is to them.  A version of this item is included in the 1992 piece cited below:

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.

Schwartz has also come up with an alternative method of measuring values called the Portraits Questionnaire.  This version describes individuals containing the various values and asks the respondent to rate how similar they are to that person.  Schwartz discusses the development and validation of the portrait questionnaire in the following article.

Schwartz, S. H., Melech, G., Lehmann, A., Burgess, S., Harris, M., & Owens, V. (2001). Extending the cross-cultural validity of the theory of basic human values with a different method of measurement. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 32(5), 519.

Finally, if you are interested in measuring values in a work context, Edwards and Cable recently introduced the Work Values Survey, which takes measures from existing work values instruments and maps them onto Schwartz's universal values.  As a result, the WVS captures most of the dimensions of Schwartz's universal values and does so in a manner that may be more appropriate to work contexts.  You might want to contact Jeff Edwards or Dan Cable directly and see if they would be willing to share the WVS with you.  They discuss the development and validation of the WVS in more detail in their 2004 JAP piece about complementary and supplementary fit.

Cable, D. M., & Edwards, J. R. (2004). Complementary and supplementary fit: A theoretical and empirical integration. Journal of Applied Psychology, 89(5), 822-834.

I hope this is helpful,

Ned

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I am about to do a research project using Schwartz Value Survey inventory. However, I have no idea as to how can I get access to it. Can anyone help me with that?

Zhengdan Liu

Assistant Professor

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Dear Zhengdan Liu,

I think the best is to contact Shalom Schwartz himself, or his co-researcher Lilach Sagiv mslilach@mscc.huji.ac.il. When I inquired, Shalom Schwartz kindly sent me SVS in various languages together with the scoring and scaling instructions.

Personally, I find the SVS57 scale too long for using it together with the other scales and in my survey I have switched to the shorter, SVS21 version, which is used in the European Social Survey for several years (the questionnaire as well as the data can be downloaded at http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/, http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=65&Itemid=107 )

Best,

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University of Tartu, Faculty of Economics and BA
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Dear <st1:place w:st="on">OB</st1:place> interest group members:

I am about to do a research project using Schwartz Value Survey inventory. However, I have no idea as to how can I get access to it. Can anyone help me with that?

Zhengdan Liu

Assistant Professor

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Northeastern University

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