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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Behavioral Signatures of Values in Everyday Behavior in Retrospective and Real-Time Self-Reports
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Ewa Skimina
  • Jan Cieciuch
  • Shalom H Schwartz
  • Eldad Davidov
  • René Algesheimer
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Frontiers in Psychology
Publisher Frontiers Research Foundation
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 1664-1078
Volume 10
Page Range 281
Date 2019
Abstract Text We identified behavioral signatures of the values distinguished in the Schwartz et al. refined value theory (2012). We examined behavioral signatures for two types of values, value states and value traits. We conducted two studies using innovative approaches. Study 1 used retrospective self-reports whereas Study 2 used self-reports in real time. In Study 1 (N = 703), we sought act frequency signatures of the 19 basic value traits that the Portrait Value Questionnaire-Revised (Schwartz, 2017) measures. We examined the frequency of 209 acts from the Oregon Avocational Interest Scales (Goldberg, 2010) for which there were no expectations that values would necessarily influence them. We computed partial correlations between each behavioral act and each value. We discuss the theoretical links to each value of the 10 behavioral acts that correlated most highly with it. Study 2 analyzed 9,416 behavioral acts of 374 participants. We measured value expressions in current behavior, i.e., value states, using experience sampling methodology (ESM). We asked participants 7 times per day for 7 days what they had been doing during the past 15 minutes and how important 9 different values from the Schwartz’s refined value theory were to them during that activity. Because the questions about activities were open-ended, the set of behavioral acts analyzed in Study 2 was theoretically unlimited. To find signatures of values in behavior, we identified the activities during which participants reported the highest level of importance for each value. Both studies revealed meaningful associations between values and daily behavior.
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Official URL https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00281/full
Digital Object Identifier 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00281
Other Identification Number merlin-id:17643
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Funders UFSP "Soziale Netzwerke"
Additional Information ORCID Eldad Davidov: 0000-0002-3396-969X Eldad Davidov: Soziologisches Institut / UZH