Adaptation and validation of the psychosocial values questionnaire to the context of Brazilian and Portuguese teenagers

ABSTRACT

Abstract The aim of this work was to adapt and validate the Psychosocial Values Questionnaire (PVQ-24) for application to Portuguese and Brazilian adolescents and to test the content, structure and compatibility hypotheses of the societal approach to values. A total of 730 adolescents participated in the study, 482 Brazilian (213 boys and 269 girls) with average age of 15 years (SD= 1.1) and 238 Portuguese (117 boys and 121 girls) with average age of 15.4 years (SD= 1.8). In both samples, the PVQ-24 showed satisfactory internal consistency, and the proposed factor structure was confirmed (four systems materialistic, religious, hedonistic, and post-materialist). The post-materialist system was organized into three subsystems social well-being, individual well-being and occupational well-being. In both samples, confirmatory factor analysis and multidimensional scaling supported the hypotheses regarding content (four systems and three subsystems), structure (two dimensions) and compatibility (positive correlations between systems). (AU)