RVS. ROKEACH VALUE SURVEY
Author:
Milton Rokeach
Polish adaptation:
Team of the Psychological Tests Laboratory of the Polish Psychological Association
Manual:
Aleksandra Jaworowska, Anna Matczak, Joanna Bitner (2011)
Age:
Adolescents, adults.
Procedure:
Individual or group administration, no time limit, approx. 15-20 min.
Test users:
Psychologists (psychology diploma required).
DESCRIPTION: The scale consists of 18 terminal and 18 instrumental values, as in the original G version. The task for examinees is to arrange the values into an order of importance, terminal and instrumental separately. The scale assesses the value systems.
RELIABILITY: The reliability of assessment of individual values calculated on the basis of the stability varies – from mainly moderately high for the most and the least appreciated values to low for the values rated average. The stability of whole value systems is higher for the terminal values and lower for the instrumental ones.
VALIDITY: Construct validity examined by seeking relations between appreciated values and the locus of control, need for social approval, emotional intelligence and personality traits measured by EPQ-R and IVE. Also shown significant differences in appreciated values between job groups.
NORMS: Normalization probe included adolescents and adults aged 16-61. Norms are represented by medians and means of ranges attributed to individual values by groups differing in age, gender, education level and job characteristics.
APPLICATIONS: Mainly research.
MATERIALS:
• Kit (manual, 25 sheets)
• Manual
• Sheets (25 copies)
Please note: All of our tests are published in Polish. There are not available other language versions of our tools.
