Social Values Survey (SVS)

Title of the Portuguese Version

Questionário de Valores Sociais

Original Version

Ciarrochi, J., Blackledge, J. T., & Heaven, P. (2006)

Portuguese Version

Cunha, M., Coelho, N., Xavier, A., Galhardo, A., Couto, M., & Espírito-Santo, H. (2014)

General Description

This questionnaire consists of 27 items that assess internal motivation, external motivation, and the degree of commitment to personal values in the context of friendship, family, and love relationships. The preliminary analysis of this instrument suggests a single factor for each dimension of motivational orientation and commitment to values throughout the relationships of friendship, family, and love.

References

  • Blackledge, J. T., Ciarrochi, J., Bilich, L., & Heaven, P. (2007). Continuing validation of the social values survey. In Presented at the Association for Behavior Analysis Conference, San Diego, CA.

  • Ciarrochi, J., Blackledge, J. T., & Heaven, P. (2006). Initial validation of the social values survey and personal values questionnaire. In Presented at the Second World Conference on the ACT, RFT, and Contextual Behavioural Science, London, England.

  • Ferssizidis, P., Adams, L.M., Kashdan, T.B, Plummer, C., Mishra, A. & Ciarrochi, J. (2010). Motivation for and commitment to social values: The roles of age and gender. Motivation and Emotion, 34, 354-362. DOI: 10.1007/s11031-010-9187-4

  • Cunha, M., Coelho, N., Xavier, A., Galhardo, A., Couto, M., & Espírito-Santo, H. (2014b). EPA-1701 – Social values assessment in adolescence: an exploratory study of the psychometric properties of the social values survey and its relationship with affective states and hope. European Psychiatry, 29, Supplement 1, 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0924-9338(14)78843-1.

  • Coelho, Nair (2013). “Valores Sociais na Adolescência: Estudo exploratório das características psicomé-tricas do Social Values Questionnaire” (Social Values in Adolescence: An exploratory study of the psychometric properties of the Social Values Questionnaire). Dissertação do 2º. Ciclo em Psicologia Clínica, Especialização em Psicoterapia e Psicologia Clínica, ISMT.

Contacts

marina-cunha@ismt.pt

jpgouveia@fpce.uc.pt

ana.mj.xavier@gmail.com