THE ROKEACH VALUE SURVEY - UNDERLYING STRUCTURE AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL-SCALING

Studies have demonstrated that the ordinal, ipsative data provided by the Rokeach Value Survey (RVS; Rokeach 1973) are not suited to factor analysis. In this study, nonmetric multidimensional scaling (MDS) was used with a sorting task to identify the underlying subset of values. American college students were the participants, and the results indic ate that individualism-achievement and collectivism-affiliation are th e underlying dimensions of the RVS for both the terminal and the instr umental values. Observed variation in the use of MDS space was predict ed, based on participants' developmental differences as measured by th e Maslowian Assessment Survey (Williams & Page, 1989). Gender differen ces in the use of MDS space by participants were not observed. Analysi s of angular variance was used to test both hypotheses.