Development of the Brief Personal Values Inventory for Sense of Values

Abstract

The Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ) is a widely used questionnaire for assessing sense of values; however, it is difficult to apply for children and adolescents. Therefore, the present study aimed to develop a questionnaire for sense of values, called the Brief Personal Values Inventory (BPVI), consisting of simple questions and fewer items compared to the PVQ. We first created 12 items for the BPVI and then tested criterion‐related validity with values in the PVQ‐57 in 167 Japanese general population participants (81 males, mean age [SD], range: 23.4 [8.2], 15–57 years). Each of these items was correlated with one or more of the values in the PVQ‐57 and covered all higher‐order values in Schwartz's theory (openness to change, self‐enhancement, conservation, and self‐transcendence). In summary, the BPVI adequately corresponded with Schwartz's value theory, indicating an acceptable criterion‐related validity. This questionnaire is applicable to a wide population, including adolescents, and will be a useful tool for researchers to elucidate the developmental pathway of personal sense of values.

Personalized values in life as point of interaction with the world: Developmental/neurobehavioral basis and implications for psychiatry

“…Schwartz and colleagues are the leading researchers of personal values as a concept in personality psychology, and based on theory and empirical data, they developed a self‐report questionnaire to measure 19 distinct values, called the 57‐item Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ‐57) 41 . Furthermore, Ozawa and colleagues developed the Brief Personal Values Inventory (BPVI), a 12‐item shortened version of the PVQ that is easier for adolescents to understand and less burdensome 42 …”

“… 41 Furthermore, Ozawa and colleagues developed the Brief Personal Values Inventory (BPVI), a 12‐item shortened version of the PVQ that is easier for adolescents to understand and less burdensome. 42 …”

Editorial: Adolescence Revisited: New Frontier in Psychological Research

“…Better understanding and considerable support for adolescents should be achieved through scientific communication based on the empirical literature, which usually starts by developing a reliable and valid measurement of adolescent behavior. The first study in this special issue, entitled “Development of the Brief Personal Values Inventory for Sense of Values” by Ozawa et al (), developed a brief measure of an adolescent's personal values and compared its structure with that for an adult. The main contribution of this article is to portray adolescents as proactive/independent agents who can build their lives directed by their own values, not as passive/dependent organisms that thoughtlessly respond to environmental stimuli.…”