Development of the Gifted Students' Personal Values Questionnaire

- Korolov, D. K. (orcid.org/0000-0002-9685-5286) (2019) Development of the Gifted Students' Personal Values Questionnaire Український психологічний журнал, 2 (12). pp. 98-108. ISSN 2520-6265

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Abstract

The purpose of presented research is the development of a questionnaire for gifted individuals’ values assessment. This instrument is needed through general personal values questionnaire has a very broad focus, cannot assess specific personal preferences of gifted individuals. Probably those preferences are internally connected with the nature of giftedness. The instrument is based on previously conducted in-depth structured interviews with students and successful professionals on personal lifestyle and values. Highlighted personal values types, their features create a basis for a questionnaire item development. The first questionnaire version was tested on a sample of 137 students. Instrument’s construct validity is confirmed by results of factor analysis, which provided a meaningful and bright structure of seven orthogonal dimensions. They describe specific value patterns: intensive emotional experience; productive creative activity; social recognition; comfortable living conditions; career achievements; value uncertainty; subjective comfort. These results created the basis for relevant scales development. Those scales show enough internal consistency, the alpha coefficient is in the range from 0.69 to 0.80. Also scales item discriminativeness is upper 0.20 that corresponds to psychometric requirements. The future researches will focus on item difficulty analysis, retest reliability and validity detailed study, test norm development.

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