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The Value Profile is a general purpose inventory of values developed for use in research on interpersonal relations. Eight hundred and seventy‐two value statements were collected from tests of values, personality tests, theoretical treatments of values, and statements made by subjects in group discussions. A factor analysis of 143 items representing all value positions yielded four orthogonal factors: I, Acceptance of Authority; II, Need‐determined Expression vs. Value‐determined Restraint; III, Equalitarianism; and IV , Individualism. The underlying factor space seems to be congruent with that obtained by Morris, and others, and provides a means of relating existing theoretical classifications of value positions to each other.
Bales et al. (Wed,) studied this question.