The Cross-National Invariance Properties of a New Scale to Measure 19 Basic Human Values: A Test Across Eight Countries

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 764-776

  Cieciuch, Jan ^a,b   Davidov, Eldad ^a   Vecchione, Michele ^c   Beierlein, Constanze ^d   Schwartz, Shalom H ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d GESIS LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES   (Germany)

^e HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^f NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

cross national comparison; human values; measurement invariance; Portrait Values Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899863062     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022114527348     Document Type: Article

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