Browsing by Subject "MDS"

Value research has previously focused on adults and young people, because either the children's value world is thought to be an unfinished process or the development of a suitable measurement has been too challenging. Research on children's values has, however, attracts an increasing amount of interest. Earlier studies have shown that the value structures and preferences of children and adults resemble each other without regard to culture. This research will help to create an initial review of the values and preferences of Finnish, more specifically, Espoo primary school children. The theoretical reference framework for the research is the theory of universal values by Shalom Schwartz (1992). The study was conducted with 228 Espoo primary school students. The material was collected from two test schools with Picture Based Values Survey for Children (PBVS-C) that was modified to the Finnish context. Data collected on four different test days were analyzed using the SPSS program. Value variables and their mutual structure were studied using Spearman's correlation and multidimensional scaling (MDS). The gender and age differences of the value preferences were analyzed with MANOVA. The values of the Espoo primary schools students are in sync with previous research results, both in terms of structures and preferences, with a few exceptions. In the future, it would be appropriate to examine the values with a more comprehensive sampling.