Normative Value Change Across the Human Life Cycle: Similarities and Differences Across Europe

Dobewall, Henrik; Tormos, Raül; Vauclair, Christin‐Melanie

doi:10.1007/s10804-017-9264-y

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“…This result is inconsistent with the hypothesis that materialism decreases with age due to the mastery of developmental priorities and cumulative maturation (Chaplin & John, 2007; Sheldon, 2005; Sheldon et al, 2010). In addition, this finding conflicts with empirical research showing that emerging adults orient away from extrinsic values toward intrinsic strivings over time (Dobewall et al, 2017; Hope et al, 2014; Sheldon, 2005).…”

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“…For mean-level changes, the results are also inconclusive. A few empirical works show that emerging adults move toward intrinsic and self-transcendence values over time (Dobewall et al, 2017; Hope et al, 2014; Sheldon, 2005) because of advanced social roles and organismic valuing processes (Hope et al, 2014; Rogers, 1964; Sheldon et al, 2010). Another study using a direct measure of materialism found no consistent changes in materialism across studies (Kasser et al, 2014).…”

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The Development of Materialism in Emerging Adulthood: Stability, Change, and Antecedents

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Jiang

2020

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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The present study investigated stability and change in materialism in emerging adulthood as well as the predictive roles of socioeconomic status (SES) and gender on the development of materialistic values. Indicator-specific latent state-trait growth models were applied to four-wave longitudinal data from a sample of 738 Chinese college students. The results showed that materialism was stable: 67% to 86% of the variance in the reliable interindividual differences in materialism was due to trait factors. In addition, materialism showed an increasing trajectory over the college years, and this developmental trend could not be attributed to measurement artifacts or confounding influences. Moreover, low family SES magnified the increase in materialism, whereas being female predicted lower initial levels of materialism. Collectively, these findings illustrate the nature and antecedents of the development of materialism in emerging adulthood.

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The Development of Materialism in Emerging Adulthood: Stability, Change, and Antecedents

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Liu

Jiang

2020

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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“…Schwartz (2005) himself seems to attribute more importance to value change due to physical aging and stages of life than to differences in cohort formative experiences or period effects (i.e., changes at the contextual level). In a recent study by Dobewall, Tormos, and Vauclair (2016), age turned out to be as important as cohort membership in explaining value change. These authors followed cohorts as they grew older and identified a pattern of value development that could apply to most individuals.…”

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Does Contextual Change Affect Basic Human Values? A Dynamic Comparative Multilevel Analysis Across 32 European Countries

Tormos

Vauclair

Dobewall

2017

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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This article examines the relationship of stable contextual differences and contextual change with the endorsement of Schwartz’s (1992) two basic value dimensions—Openness-to-Change versus Conservation and Self-Enhancement versus Self-Transcendence. Using six waves of the European Social Survey, an extension of multilevel analysis is used which combines both a cross-national comparative and a dynamic analysis of values. The hierarchical data structure and the covariates for value endorsement are defined at three distinct levels: a first level for individuals (with sociodemographic variables, such as age and gender), a second level for country-waves (with time-varying covariates), and a third level for country (with time-invariant covariates). The main aim is to determine if changes in contextual covariates over time are related to value differences between countries over and above contextual time-invariant covariates. High national wealth and low income inequality predicted high Self-Transcendence values and low Conservation values. Low national unemployment rates were associated with less conservatism. When entered simultaneously into the model, only time-invariant differences in gross domestic product (GDP) remained to be a significant predictor of Schwartz’s two basic value dimensions. Finally, we found that an increase in income inequality over time has a certain incremental effect on the endorsement of Conservation over Openness-to-Change values. There were no associations for changes in national wealth and unemployment rates, suggesting that for value endorsement, time-varying contextual effects are less important overall than time-invariant contextual effects.

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“…Indeed, Strauss et al (2008) found a negative correlation between age and altruistic values, but the relationship was weak and non-significant ( r = −0.12). Contradictorily, using Schwartz’s Portrait Value Questionnaire, a large multi-country study showed that people increasingly endorsed self-transcendent values more strongly, and self-enhancement values less strongly, from late adolescence to young adulthood, but then the strength of these values stabilized such that further age effects were weak ( Dobewall et al, 2017 ).…”

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The Relationship Between Sociodemographics and Environmental Values Across Seven European Countries

2020

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Given the importance of environmental values (altruistic, biospheric, and egoistic) to pro-environmental behavior, it would be useful to segment the population – an approach known as market segmentation – to tailor pro-environmental messages more effectively. Sociodemographic variables are popular targets for segmentation, as such variables are often knowable in the absence of more nuanced information about individuals. However, evidence for the relationship between sociodemographics and environmental values is sparse, and contradictory. We examined the extent to which popular sociodemographic variables (gender, age, income, education, urbanization level, and political orientation) were predictive of environmental values for 11,820 participants across seven European countries. Overall, sociodemographics were hardly related to environmental values. Only gender and political orientation were weakly but significantly related to environmental values, whereby men and right-wingers showed weaker altruistic and biospheric, and stronger egoistic, values than women and left-wingers. We conclude that sociodemographic variables cannot be considered a suitable proxy for environmental values, and thus that behavior-change campaigns might be more impactful when focused on alternative segmentation strategies in relation to environmental aims.

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Normative Value Change Across the Human Life Cycle: Similarities and Differences Across Europe

Cited by 22 publications

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The Development of Materialism in Emerging Adulthood: Stability, Change, and Antecedents

The Development of Materialism in Emerging Adulthood: Stability, Change, and Antecedents

Does Contextual Change Affect Basic Human Values? A Dynamic Comparative Multilevel Analysis Across 32 European Countries

The Relationship Between Sociodemographics and Environmental Values Across Seven European Countries

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