Towards the Development of a Personal Values Importance Scale (PVIS)

Abstract

Personal values have been shown to be effective predictors of behaviour across different contexts. Past research has identified the List of Values (LOV) typology can be grouped as either two or three dimensional arguing the context as an influencing factor. To date no attempt has been made to adapt the LOV scale to assess its influence on student's preferences. This paper develops a reliable and valid personal values importance scale (PVIS) using a two phase approach designed to capture the specific domains of the nine List of Values for application in the context of education