smacof (version 1.10-8)

PVQ40: Portrait Value Questionnaire

Description

The PVQ40 (Schwartz et al., 1999) consists of 40 items, each a short portrait of one person. For example, to measure power, the PVQ includes two portraits (male/female versions): It is important to him to be rich. He wants to have a lot of money and expensive things. It is important to him to get respect from others. He wants people to do what he says. Respondent indicates on 6-point bipolar rating scale (1 ... not at all like me, 6 ... very much like me) the degree to which the description also fits him-/herself. Gender and age of the participants are added as attributes.

Usage

data(PVQ40)

Format

PVQ40 data of 151 adults from various states in the USA:

sd1-sd4: self-direction

po1-po3: power

un1-un6: universalism

ac1-ac4: achievement

se1-se5: security

st1-st3: stimulation

co1-co4: conformity

tr1-tr4: tradition

he1-he3: hedonism

be1-be4: benevolence

Age and Gender are added as attributes.

Details

PVQ40agg is an aggregated version of PVQ40 where the item scores belonging to the same value are averaged.

References

Borg, I., & Groenen, P. J. F. (2005). Modern Multidimensional Scaling (2nd ed.). Springer.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
str(PVQ40)
head(PVQ40)
attr(PVQ40, "Gender")
attr(PVQ40, "Age")
str(PVQ40agg)
# }