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Testing Schwartz’s Model of Cultural Value Orientations in Europe with the European Social Survey: An Empirical Comparison of Additive Indexes with Factor Scores

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https://doi.org/10.18148/srm/2023.v17i4.8031

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European Social Survey (ESS), Schwartz’ Cultural Values, Schwartz’ Personal Values, Multilevel Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling

Abstract

Schwartz (2004) proposed a theory of seven cultural value orientations, ordered in a circle, that form three cultural value dimensions, hierarchy vs. egalitarianism, mastery vs. harmony, and autonomy vs. embeddedness and demonstrated their usefulness for comparing countries. In this study we model for the first time Schwartz’ cultural values using the European Social Survey (ESS). While confirmatory multidimensional scaling discriminated all seven cultural values, multilevel confirmatory factor analysis displayed high correlations requiring unifying two pairs of adjacent values. All in all, the findings suggest that ESS data are suitable for modeling and comparing Schwartz’ cultural values in European countries.

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Hermann Duelmer, Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology, University of Cologne, Germany

Hermann Dülmer is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Cologne (Germany).

Shalom H. Schwartz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Shalom H. Schwartz is Professor Emeritus of Psychology—the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a social psychologist (PhD, University of Michigan) and a past president of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology.

Jan Cieciuch, Institute of Psychology, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Warsaw, Poland, and University Research Priority Program ‘‘Social Networks’’, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Jan Cieciuch is an associate professor of psychology at the Cardinal Wyszynski University in Warsaw (Poland) and a researcher at the University Research Priority Program on Social Networks at the University of Zurich (Switzerland).

Eldad Davidov, Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology, University of Cologne, Germany and Department of Sociology and University Research Priority Program ‘‘Social Networks’’, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Eldad Davidov is professor of sociology at the Universities of Cologne (Germany) and Zurich (Switzerland) and co-director of the university research priority program on social networks at the University of Zurich. He was president of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) between 2015 and 2017.

Peter Schmidt, Institute for Political Science and Centre for International Development and Environment (ZEU), Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Germany

Peter Schmidt is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Giessen and member of the Centre for International Development and Environment and Research (ZEU) and research fellow at the Centre for Psychosomatic Research at the University of Mainz. He has been project director and program director at ZUMA Mannheim now GESIS Mannheim.

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Duelmer, H., Schwartz, S. H., Cieciuch, J., Davidov, E., & Schmidt, P. (2024). Testing Schwartz’s Model of Cultural Value Orientations in Europe with the European Social Survey: An Empirical Comparison of Additive Indexes with Factor Scores. Survey Research Methods, 17(4), 447–463. https://doi.org/10.18148/srm/2023.v17i4.8031 (Original work published December 22, 2023)

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Vol. 17 No. 4 (2023)

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