Modelos de valores de Schwartz e Gouveia: comparando conteúdo, estrutura e poder preditivo.

• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Tiago Jessé Souza de
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/6903
• topic: Valores humanos; Teoria; Conteúdo; Estrutura; Schwartz; Gouveia; Human values; Theory; Content; Structure; Schwartz; Gouveia; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

ABSTRACT The main objective of the present dissertation was comparing the theories of Schwartz (Universal Theory of Human Values) and Gouveia (Functionalist Theory of Human Values), in function of their hypotheses of content and structure and predictive power. Two empirical studies were designed. The first study aimed to test the hypotheses of content (adequacy of the number of motivational types and subfunctions) and structure (spatial organization of values) of the two models. Participants were 1173 peoples with an average age of 25.1 years (sd = 8.5), they responded the following measures: Basic Values Questionnaire (BVQ), Schwartz Values Survey (SVS) and demographic questions. The hypotheses of content and structure were supported in both models; only in the case of Schwartz model the configuration (structure) differed when the estimator Torgerson was employed in confirmatory multidimensional scaling. Futhermore, the postulated circumplex structure of Schwartz s model was not confirmed. Study 2 assessed the relationship between values and behavior, trying to gauge the predictive power of the two theories. Participants were 836 peoples with an average age of 22.4 years (sd = 7.31), they responded the following measures: BVQ, Portraits Values Questionary (PVQ 21), demographic questions, and two measures of behavior, one for to represent the motivational types of Schwartz and another covering the subfunctions of Gouveia. In general, the two models offered a moderate correlation between values and behavioral indicators. The model of Gouveia (0.47, sd = 0.14) presented average correlations higher than Schwartz s model (0.33, dp = 0.08) [t = - 2.59, p < 0.01]. In conclusion, both theories presented satisfactory results, justifying that are employed in the context of studies on the correlates of human values. However, the model of Gouveia showed something more appropriate, especially when you consider this to be more parsimonious. The limitations of the studies were discussed, indicating that future research may help to know to what extent these models are specific and / or complementary.