Value Structures and Orientations to Social Institutions

Summary Extant studies of the factor structure of the Rokeach Value Survey were reviewed and found to be lacking in conception, methodology, execution, or interpretation, primarily because of the failure of previous investigators to countenance the restrictions imposed by the ipsative nature of the scale. The value structures of 130 college students, 53 males and 77 females, were subjected to rank correlation. The resulting matrix was factor-analyzed. Thirteen factors emerged which, when subjected to Varimax rotation, yielded polar value clusters demonstrating significant congruence with findings from previous educational, economic, religious, political, and social value research.