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Shalom H. Schwartz
Changes in Young Europeans’ Values During the Global Financial Crisis
We investigate the impact of the global financial crisis (GFC) on the personal values of youth and young adults (age 16–35 years) from 16 European countries. Using time series cross-sectional data from seven waves (2002–2014) of the European Social Survey, we examined (1) whether the GFC led to value shifts between cohorts of young people and (2) whether welfare state provision moderate the expected value shifts. Multilevel analyses showed that, following the GFC, the importance of security, tradition, benevolence, and, to a lesser extent, conformity values increased. In contrast, hedonism, self-direction, and stimulation values decreased. In line with our moderation hypothesis, power, and…
Values and subjective well-being
Research on relations of personal values to subjective well-being has begun to flourish only recently. This is surprising because our values represent what we consider important and worth pursuing in life, and our subjective well-being (henceforth SWB) represents how happy and satisfied we are with the life we are leading. This chapter summarizes what we know about value—SWB relations and identifies some of what we do not know but would like to know. We first discuss the nature of values and the structured system they form. We then note three theoretical perspectives on relations of values to SWB (Sagiv & Schwartz, 2000; Sagiv, Roccas & Hazan, 2004). The first perspective seeks to explain d…
Supporting info item, per2096-sup-001-Supplementary Material R1 - Values that Underlie and Undermine Well–Being: Variability across Countries†
Supporting info item, per2096-sup-001-Supplementary Material R1 for Values that Underlie and Undermine Well–Being: Variability across Countries† by Sortheix Florencia M. and Schwartz Shalom H. in European Journal of Personality
Supplemental Material, SPPS732610_suppl_mat - Changes in Young Europeans’ Values During the Global Financial Crisis
Supplemental Material, SPPS732610_suppl_mat for Changes in Young Europeans’ Values During the Global Financial Crisis by Florencia M. Sortheix, Philip D. Parker, Clemens M. Lechner, and Shalom H. Schwartz in Social Psychological and Personality Science
Values that Underlie and Undermine Well–Being: Variability across Countries
We examined relations of 10 personal values to life satisfaction (LS) and depressive affect (DEP) in representative samples from 32/25 countries ( N = 121 495). We tested hypotheses both for direct relations and cross–level moderation of relations by Cultural Egalitarianism. We based hypotheses on the growth versus self–protection orientation and person–focus versus social–focus motivations that underlie values. As predicted, openness to change values (growth/person) correlated positively with subjective well–being (SWB: higher LS, lower DEP) and conservation values (self–protection/social) correlated negatively with SWB. The combination of underlying motivations also explained more comple…