Webinar: The Human Values Scale

Описание: Included in each round of the European Social Survey (ESS) is a 21-item human values scale (or portrait values questionnaire) - a series of statements developed by Shalom H. Schwartz to understand the moral values of respondents.

A new ESS report that features contributions from academics who analysed this data was launched at a webinar on Monday 8 March 2021.

In the webinar, Shalom H. Schwartz was joined by a selection of the report's contributors to formally launch this new publication.

Mikko Weckroth (University of Helsinki) discussed the geographical perspective of human values in general and reviewed findings on inter-regional value profiles in the European Union (EU) and urban-rural value differences.

Daniel Seddig (University of Cologne) delivered a presentation that highlighted the findings of Davidov et al. (2019), showing that universalism values were associated with lower threat by immigration and less opposition to immigration. While conservation values showed the opposite pattern.

Andrew Miles (University of Toronto) presented research undertaken with Catherine Yeh on testing claims that nominally similar social categories such as gender or religion have different effects in different countries because institutions imbue them with context-specific meanings.

The event was chaired by Rory Fitzgerald, Director of the European Social Survey.

About the Speakers:
Shalom H. Schwartz is a Professor of Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His individual-level research includes studies of altruism, intergroup contact, individual values as determinants of political orientations, values of bases of emotions, subjective well-being and prosocial behavior, the development of values in young children, value transmission in families, values as the motivational bases of everyday behavior, differences among ethnic, gender and religious groups, and value measurement.

Mikko Weckroth is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS) at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His research has focused on empirical analyses on geographies of subjective wellbeing, human values, and urbanisation as well as their interconnections.

Daniel Seddig is a sociologist at the Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology at the University of Cologne (Germany). His research interests are comparative analyses of human values, crime, health, immigration, and ageing as well as survey methodology and structural equation modelling.

Andrew Miles is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. His work lies at the intersection of the sociology of culture, social psychology, and moral and cognitive psychology. His research focuses on the social development of different moral cultures, the role moral constructs like values and identities play in predicting behavior, and the effects of moral behavior on emotions.