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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:

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

References

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

Examples

pvqdiss <- sim2diss(cor(PVQ40, use = "complete.obs"))
fit <- mds(pvqdiss, type = "ordinal")
plot(fit)
plot(fit, plot.type = "Shepard")

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