2024/11/27 by John B. Nezlek · 1 voice · 3 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Conformity #Cultural Differences and Values #Dominance (genetics) #Feeling #Individualism #Orientation (vector space) #Political science #Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction #Psychology #Social and Intergroup Psychology #Social comparison theory #Social dominance orientation #Social psychology #Social value orientations #Value (mathematics)
paper · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0312795
published in PLoS ONE 19(11), e0312795 (Public Library of Science)
openalex publication_date 2024/11/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
The present study examined relationships between social value orientation and personal values. Participants, n = 1655, were university students (Mage = 18.9 years, 60% women) who completed the Triple Dominance Measure, a measure of social value orientation, and the PVQ-21, a measure of Schwartz's personal values. Two items were added to the PVQ-21 to measure benevolence toward people in general. The analyses found that pro-socials had significantly higher scores than pro-selfs (Competitors and Individualists) for Benevolence, Universalism, and Conformity values, whereas pro-selfs had significantly higher scores than pro-socials on Hedonic, Achievement, and Power values. These differences reflected the fact that Benevolence, Universalism, and Conformity values concern the feelings and well-being of others, concerns that are consistent with a pro-social orientation. In contrast, Hedonic, Achievement, and Power values concern self-enhancement, concerns that are consistent with a self-focused orientation. There were no significant differences between individualists and competitors for any value, nor were there differences of any kind for Tradition, Security, Self-direction, and Stimulation values. These results complement and expand previous research by demonstrating how individual differences in social value orientation are related to individual differences in fundamental, personal human values.