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Agentic and communal values: their scope and measurement.

Paul D Trapnell¹, Delroy L Paulhus

¹Department of Psychology, University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 2E9, Canada. p.trapnell@uwinnipeg.ca

Journal of Personality Assessment

|December 20, 2011

Summary

This study introduces a new questionnaire to measure agency and communion values, crucial for understanding self-advancement and relationships. The developed ACV instrument demonstrates reliable measurement of these core human values.

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Area of Science:

Psychology
Social Psychology
Personality Psychology

Background:

Agency and communion are fundamental meta-concepts in social and personality psychology.
Existing research highlights their utility but lacks direct measures of global values.
A need exists for a psychometrically sound instrument to assess these core value dimensions.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and validate a questionnaire measuring global agency and communion values.
To provide a direct measure for assessing these superordinate value dimensions.
To examine the psychometric properties and construct validity of the new instrument.

Main Methods:

Structural analyses of four diverse datasets containing value or life goal inventories.
Development of the 24-item Agency and Communion Values (ACV) questionnaire.
Validation studies assessing the ACV within a nomological network of related constructs.

Main Results:

Four datasets consistently revealed higher-order agency and communion dimensions.
The ACV questionnaire demonstrated good psychometric properties.
The ACV measures showed expected relationships with interpersonal traits, biases, ideology, gender, socio-sexuality, and religious attitudes.

Conclusions:

The ACV is a reliable and valid instrument for measuring global agency and communion values.
This measure facilitates further research into the role of these values in various psychological domains.
The ACV has potential applications in research and practice for understanding individual differences.