Assessment For Children’s Values: Picture-Based Value Survey for Children Adaptation Study

Authors : Necla Acun KAPIKIRAN, Aysun GÜNDOĞAN

Pages : 9-21

Doi:10.24331/ijere.391804

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Publication Date : 2018-04-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The aim of the current study is to adapt the Picture-Based Value Survey for Children insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(PBVS-C); to Turkish in order to determine the values of elementary school level children. The participants were students from three different schools, age group of 7-12 insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(573 students: 270 insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(47%); male and 303 insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(53%); female);. The Picture-Based Value Survey for Children insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(PBVS-C); was used to measure children’s values. Multi-dimensional Scaling analyses insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(MDS); was used to create the model. The data analysis showed that the scale being developed based on Schwartz’s theoretical model featured different dimensions for some of the values; e.g. different results were obtained for the “universalizm” dimension. Children make moral judgements from the very early periods of their lives, so their values begin to develop at quite early ages
Keywords : Values, Schwartzs values model, school age children, survey