“…The motivational goals of power, hedonism, and self-direction values are "social status and prestige, control or dominance over people and resources" (Schwartz, 1992: 9), "pleasure and sensuous gratification for oneself" (Schwartz, 1992: 8), and "independent thought and action -choosing, creating, exploring", respectively (Schwartz, 1992: 6). Economics students in the SSER completed the SVS in English and their counterparts in Latvian universities completed a Latvian version of the survey that was translated by Austers (2002). The Latvian SVS has been shown to exhibit good validity and reliability (Kalnina, 2004;Schwartz, 2006;Tart, 2011).…”