Analysis of the Assessments of One's Values Among Different Cohorts in Age and Sex by Multidimensional Scaling

摘要

Differences in assessments of one's values on personal or private issues among different cohorts in age and sex in the japanese society were investigated. Responses of about 2,700 people to 13 items were analyzed by multidimensional scaling. The two-dimensional configuration of items given by INDSCAL showed that one dimension represents extroverted or introverted values and the other dimension represents materialistic or post-materialistic values. Each of the 10 different cohorts was imbedded as a vector or as an anti-ideal point in the configuration. It was shown that differences in values among cohorts were closely connected with the role change induced by one's life events.