Portrait Values Questionnaire-21 (ESS Human Values Scale)
21-item instrument measuring Schwartz's ten fundamental human values through brief portrait descriptions. Respondents rate how much each portrait resembles them on a 6-point scale.
Purpose
Self-report research instrument, reproduced here under an open license for non-diagnostic educational, research, and self-reflection use.
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Administration
Self-Administered
Intended Use
Research
Limitations: Imported from the OpenScales open item-bank project. This specific digital implementation has not been independently clinically validated by PsiQ — scores are for self-reflection, research, and educational purposes only. The original ESS instrument presents 21 gender-matched portrait items (42 total) selected based on the respondent's own gender; since this platform has no conditional branching by a prior answer, the 21 items here use gender-neutral third-person phrasing ('this person... they') instead of duplicating both gender-matched versions. The substantive content, item count, and scoring formulas are unchanged from the original.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0. Citation: Sandy, C. J., Gosling, S. D., Schwartz, S. H., & Koelkebeck, T. (2017). The development and validation of brief and ultrabrief measures of values. Journal of Personality Assessment, 99(5), 545–555.
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