Inaug.-diss.--Lund. / "Literaturverzeichnis": p. [222]-226.

Inaug.-diss.-Strassburg. / Lebenslauf.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1929. / Vita. Published also without thesis note. Bibliography: p. [231]-259.

Inaug.-dis.--Jena. / Dissertation note on cover.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Stockholms universitet, 2008. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University. / The problem of this dissertation is to discover and analyze the meanings assigned to the term "value" in modern psychological value theory and research. To this end, both theory and research have been systematically arranged into tentative clusters or categories, each tending to emphasize a particular variable as being critical to defining values. Group One, the first cluster, defines values as needs or need satisfactions. Maslow, Goldstein, Murphy, and Fromm show representative theoretical positions, while Maslow and White have produced corresponding research. An overview of the group suggests that while it has difficulty in the precise formulation of basic terms and in overemphasizing, perhaps uncritically, the "objective" basis of needs, health, self-actualization, and value. [truncated]

D.Ed. (Philosophy of Education) / As the title of the thesis indicates, the main aim of this research was to postulate a new theory of values. Such a theory of values may serve as a guideline regarding the nature and function of values in the life of mankind for both educator and therapist in their guidance function. The rationale behind framing a theory of values is the realisation which was reached, after a thorough study of available literature had been made, that there are divergent and confusing views on values. As a result, no single accepted and acceptable theory of values exists which can serve as,a point of departure for both education and for further research. A value clarification of the concept values is imperative in order to assist in clarifying any ambiguities, confusion or lack of classification surrounding values in the field of education. The theory of values which is postulated in this work is, on the one hand, both a summary and an interpretation all findings regarding values which have emerged and crystallized from a study of relevant literature: and on the other hand, the student's own stand regarding the nature arid' function of values in the life of every human being...

This thesis comprises the analysis of data gathered in Ceylon by a value-analysis questionnaire, the Kluckhohn Value Orientation Schedule, and a critique of the method. The data were gathered from a total of 403 respondents in Ceylon during the Summer of 1963 by Dr. Michael M. Ames of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of British Columbia. The particular focus of the study was upon a sample of 75 parent-child pairs who completed the Ceylonese questionnaires together with a critique of the particular questionnaire method, including its use in two studies which preceded the Ames research. In 1961, F. Kluckhohn and F.L. Strodtbeck published the original study in which the Kluckhohn Value Orientation Schedule was developed and tested in five cultures in the American Southwest. In 1962, W. Caudill and H.A. Scarr published a partial replication of the Kluckhohn and Stodtbeck study utilizing the questionnaire in Japan. The Ames use of the same value schedule followed in Ceylon in 1963. The Caudill and Scarr and Ames research suffer from some limitations not found in the original study, including statistically incidental sampling, but in general, since the same value schedule was used in all three studies, the same underlying assumptions guided each. Our approach to the analysis of the Ames data and the construction of the critique begins with a brief introduction to the study of values in Chapter I, followed in Chapter II by a description of the Caudill and Scarr Japanese research and the statement of the hypotheses derived from this research to be tested with the Ceylonese data. In Chapter III the analysis of the data is outlined and an attempt is made to assess the influence of selected background variables upon value-orientation (value-configuration) choice. The material relevant, for the test of the hypotheses is presented in Chapter IV. The methodological critique is presented in Chapter V. Our initial finding, that none of a comparatively large number of background characteristics of the respondents seemed to exert as much differential effect upon value-orientation choice as did differences between questionnaire items within the same value-orientation area, led us to question the validity of the value schedule. As far as the test of the hypotheses formulated from the Caudill and Scarr Japanese findings is concerned, we found that hypotheses describing empirical facts, otherwise unexplained, were more successful in prediction than those more general in scope and hence including a greater number of implicit variables. An attempt was made in the methodological critique to assess this difficulty in terms of the philosophical assumptions underlying this particular approach to value analysis. We found that there seem to be dominant and major variant value-orientations (most and second most chosen value configurations according to the items on the Kluckhohn Value Orientation Schedule supposed to represent these configurations) but that division of the sample according to categories of such variables as age, sex, and place of residence seems to exert little effect upon value-orientation choice. An attempt, following Caudill and Scarr, to use questionnaire items to tap selected "behaviour spheres" defined on a "common-sense" basis must be considered to be largely a failure, due to the diffuseness of the definition of the spheres, the fewness of items thought by Caudill and Scarr to represent them, and the small number of cases in the sample. We conclude with a suggestion for an assessment of the significance of the data so far collected by these value studies utilizing a first approximate, graphic, comparative method. / Arts, Faculty of / Anthropology, Department of / Graduate

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 200-220). Abstract also available via World Wide Web. Also available on microfiche.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 200-220). Abstract also available via World Wide Web. Also available on microfiche.