Do Values Relate to Personality Traits and if so, in What Way? – Analysis of Relationships

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Table 1 Arithmetic Means of the Distributions of Measurement Results of All Variables. Correlation Coefficients Between Terminal Value Preference Indices and Personality Trait Indices

No.	Terminal Values	Value Preferences	Empathy E=68.40		Agreeableness A=30.43		Directiveness D=56.57		Machiavellianism M=100.51
		tv=	r=	p	r=	p	r=	p	r=	p
t1.	A Comfortable Life (id)	11.24	0.22	<0.001	0.20	<0.001	−0.21	<0.001	−0.13	0.021
t2.	Equality (al)	10.55	−0.11	0.056	−0.11	0.058	0.20	<0.001	0.13	0.023
t3.	An Exciting Life (id)	14.50	0.12	0.033	0.16	0.004	−0.21	<0.001	−0.19	0.001
t4.	Family Security (al)	3.41	0.02	0.775	−0.09	0.114	0.04	0.442	0.02	0.694
t5.	Freedom (id)	7.47	0.08	0.127	0.13	0.015	−0.06	0.289	−0.05	0.349
t6.	Happiness (id)	7.20	0.08	0.149	0.02	0.699	0.09	0.109	−0.02	0.725
t7.	Inner Harmony (al)	7.51	−0.08	0.166	−0.03	0.546	0.12	0.033	0.00	0.953
t8.	Mature Love (al)	6.38	−0.04	0.500	0.05	0.344	−0.06	0.308	0.00	0.981
t9.	National Security (al)	10.72	0.05	0.354	−0.02	0.723	0.04	0.419	0.03	0.633
t10.	Pleasure (id)	13.27	0.10	0.079	0.07	0.188	0.01	0.823	−0.10	0.063
t11.	Salvation (al)	9.39	−0.16	0.003	−0.20	<0.001	0.14	0.010	0.19	0.001
t12.	Self-Respect (id)	7.15	−0.01	0.927	0.08	0.165	−0.21	<0.001	−0.06	0.249
t13.	A Sense of Accomplishment (id)	11.57	−0.03	0.639	0.01	0.804	−0.10	0.072	−0.10	0.079
t14.	Social Recognition (id)	13.10	0.06	0.246	0.10	0.074	−0.11	0.045	−0.15	0.008
t15.	True Friendship (al)	7.75	−0.08	0.154	−0.12	0.037	0.03	0.567	0.02	0.671
t16.	Wisdom (al)	6.27	−0.04	0.493	−0.04	0.445	−0.01	0.879	0.07	0.213
t17.	A World at Peace (al)	9.37	−0.05	0.333	−0.06	0.274	0.06	0.245	0.09	0.110
t18.	A World of Beauty (id)	14.05	−0.06	0.292	−0.04	0.522	0.09	0.101	0.10	0.066

Notes: E – arithmetic mean for empathy; A –arithmetic mean for agreeableness; D –arithmetic mean for directiveness; M –arithmetic mean for Machiavellianism; t1-t18 – eighteen terminal values; tv–arithmetic mean for terminal value ranks; (al) – allocentric values; (id) – idiocentric values; r – Pearson’s linear correlation coefficient; p – level of statistical significance. Source: own elaboration.

Table 2 Arithmetic Means of the Distributions of Measurement Results of All Variables. Correlation Coefficients Between Instrumental Value Preference Indices and Personality Trait Indices

No.	Instrumental Values	Value Preferences	Empathy E=68.40		Agreeableness A=30.43		Directiveness D=56.57		Machiavellianism M=100.51
		iv =	r=	p=	r=	p=	r=	p=	r=	p=
i1.	Ambitious (id)	9.04	0.14	0.010	0.11	0.040	−0.24	<0.001	−0.12	0.025
i2.	Broad-minded (id)	9.64	0.05	0.350	0.13	0.022	−0.14	0.010	−0.14	0.012
i3.	Capable (id)	12.25	0.15	0.006	0.16	0.005	−0.19	0.001	0.02	0.706
i4.	Cheerful (id)	9.79	−0.06	0.250	−0.10	0.063	0.12	0.031	−0.01	0.853
i5.	Clean (al)	1 1.06	0.16	0.003	0.07	0.237	−0.07	0.197	−0.14	0.015
i6.	Courageous (id)	9.83	0.06	0.276	0.21	<0.001	−0.14	0.010	−0.05	0.389
i7.	Forgiving (al)	9.87	−0.18	0.002	−0.13	0.024	0.25	<0.001	0.15	0.006
i8.	Helpful (al)	7.99	−0.18	0.001	−0.27	<0.001	0.27	<0.001	0.17	0.003
i9.	Honest (al)	5.72	−0.13	0.018	−0.07	0.195	0.16	0.004	0.16	0.005
i10.	Imaginative (id)	10.82	0.03	0.626	0.07	0.187	−0.16	0.004	−0.10	0.067
i11.	Independent (id)	9.78	0.10	0.081	0.16	0.005	−0.21	<0.001	−0.07	0.226
i12.	Intellectual (id)	8.91	0.08	0.144	0.07	0.186	−0.15	0.007	−0.06	0.290
i13.	Logical (id)	11.13	0.03	0.578	0.03	0.647	−0.05	0.386	0.02	0.708
i14.	Loving (al)	4.26	−0.13	0.017	−0.11	0.055	0.08	0.145	−0.00	0.976
i15.	Obedient (al)	15.49	−0.01	0.884	−0.10	0.083	0.17	0.003	0.14	0.010
i16.	Polite (al)	9.81	−0.11	0.047	−0.22	<0.001	0.15	0.007	0.05	0.349
i17.	Responsible (al)	5.37	−0.05	0.403	−0.09	0.097	0.20	<0.001	0.08	0.150
i18.	Self-controlled (al)	10.19	−0.01	0.832	−0.06	0.251	0.14	0.012	0.02	0.692

Notes:E – arithmetic mean for empathy; A –arithmetic mean for agreeableness; D –arithmetic mean for directiveness; M –arithmetic mean for Machiavellianism; i1-i18 – eighteen instrumental values; iv–arithmetic mean for instrumental value ranks; (al) – allocentric values; (id) – idiocentric values; r – Pearson’s linear correlation coefficient; p – level of statistical significance. Source: own elaboration.