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

Hermann Duelmer; Shalom H. Schwartz; Jan Cieciuch; Eldad Davidov; Peter Schmidt

doi:10.18148/srm/2023.v17i4.8031

Survey Research Methods (Dec 2023)

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

Hermann Duelmer,
Shalom H. Schwartz,
Jan Cieciuch,
Eldad Davidov,
Peter Schmidt

Affiliations

Hermann Duelmer: Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology, University of Cologne, Germany
Shalom H. Schwartz: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Jan Cieciuch: Institute of Psychology, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Warsaw, Poland, and University Research Priority Program ‘‘Social Networks’’, University of Zurich, 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
Peter Schmidt: Institute for Political Science and Centre for International Development and Environment (ZEU), Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Germany

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18148/srm/2023.v17i4.8031
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 17, no. 4

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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.

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

Published in Survey Research Methods

ISSN: 1864-3361 (Online)
Publisher: European Survey Research Association
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Social Sciences: Social sciences (General)
Website: https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/

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