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Toward the Measurement of Human Values
Author(s) -
Schlater Jean D.,
Sontag M. Suzanne
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
family and consumer sciences research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1552-3934
pISSN - 1077-727X
DOI - 10.1177/1077727x940231002
Subject(s) - subject (documents) , object (grammar) , human values , perspective (graphical) , inclusion (mineral) , measure (data warehouse) , value (mathematics) , process (computing) , computer science , research object , epistemology , psychology , data science , artificial intelligence , data mining , sociology , social psychology , machine learning , social science , philosophy , regional science , library science , operating system
Although knowledge about human values is crucial to understanding human behavior, methods for the study of values are relatively underdeveloped. This article examines selected value theory and research, emphasizing attempts to measure values and their methodological implications. We integrate this examination within a proposed values measurement model, based on a human ecological perspective. In this model, we propose that values investigations may be grouped according to threefoci: content, structure, and process. Additionally, we identify three measurement approaches on the basis of subject‐object inclusion: subject‐only, subject‐object reactive, and subject‐object interactive. As an outgrowth of our methodological assessment and critique and use of the values measurement model, we propose newfrontiersfor values research and measurement.