Open AccessLife Values Among Lebanese and Portuguese College Students
Author(s) -
Cátia Marques,
María do Céu Taveira,
Mayssah El Nayal,
Ana Daniela Silva,
Valdiney Velôso Gouveia
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of international students
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.47
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2166-3750
pISSN - 2162-3104
DOI - 10.32674/jis.v10i1.760
Subject(s) - portuguese , psychology , normative , confirmatory factor analysis , test (biology) , social psychology , promotion (chess) , structural equation modeling , mathematics , statistics , paleontology , philosophy , linguistics , epistemology , politics , political science , law , biology
This study aims to test the applicability of the functional theory of life values and score differences among a group of students from Lebanon and Portugal. Participants include 565 college students—278 Lebanese and 287 Portuguese. A demographic questionnaire and an adapted version of the Basic Values Survey were completed. Confirmatory/multigroup factor analysis, a generalized Procrustes analysis, and a t test were used. Results indicate that content and structure hypotheses were equivalent among the two groups. There were significant differences between the Lebanese and Portuguese students in normative and promotion values in favor of the first group, and in interactive, suprapersonal, and excitement values in favor of the second. This study has implications for institutional academic and social practices with international college students.