Authors

• Puohiniemi, Martti (University of Helsinki. Department of Social Psychology)

Keywords

attitudes, leisure time, occupational life, social networks, values

Abstract

The survey charted Finnish values and attitudes.

The respondents' values were examined with the 56-item Schwarz Value Survey (SVS). The SVS includes two lists of value items containing life-guiding principles and life-guiding practices. The first contains items that describe potentially desirable end-states in noun form and the second includes items that describe potentially desirable ways of acting in adjective form. The respondents rate the importance of each value item. The data were collected as part of the RISC Monitor survey.

Background variables included the respondent's gender, age, marital status, level of education, job title, economic activity and occupational status, type of municipal of residence, household size, number of children aged under 18 living in the household, income of the household, and job title and level of education of the second parent/guardian of the children.