Presentation at ECER 2021

1. The Development of Human Values
in Children and Adolescents in
Portuguese Schools
Alice Ramos, Ricardo Borges Rodrigues, Iva Tendais,
Leonor Pereira da Costa, Evelia Alvarez

2. INTRODUCTION - Basic Human Values (Schwartz, 1992)

3. INTRODUCTION - The global context: Values in education

4. INTRODUCTION – What we aleady know
v However, some deviations have been reported (Alvarez et al., under review)
v Research has shown that the value structure of children closely resembles
that of adults and adolescents
(Bilsky et al., 2013; Collins et al., 2017; Döring et al., 2015; Rodrigues et al., 2016)
v While fewer than ten motivational regions have been found in samples
of children, the four higher-order values could be differentiated in most
cases (Cieciuch et al., 2016)
v Children’s value structures have been considerably less investigated

5. AIM OF THE STUDIES
• To assess the validity of the Portuguese version of the
Picture-Based Value Survey for Children (PBVS-C)
– In-person
– Online (shorter version)

6. METHOD – Döring et al., 2010

7. METHOD – Study 1 (in person)

8. RESULTS – Study 1 (in person)
UN
BE
TR
CON
SE
PO
AC
HE
ST
SD
Dimension 1
Dimension 2
n = 218 children
6-10 y (M = 7.6, SD = 1.1)
50% girls
Multidimensional scaling
Theory based method
Stress 1 = .29

9. DISCUSSION – Study 1 (in person)
UN
BE
TR
CON
SE
PO
AC
HE
ST
SD
Doring (2010)
Cieciuch et al. (2013a,b)
Doring et al. (2015)
Lee et al. (2017)
Roazzi et al.
(2016)
Dimension 1
Dimension 2

10. Answers
<20
20-50
51-100
101-200
>200
METHOD – Study 2 (on line)

11. UN
BE
TR
CON
SE
PO
AC
HE
ST
SD
n = 1723 children
6-14 y (M = 10.5, SD = 2.4)
51% girls
Multidimensional scaling
Theory based method
Stress 1 = .22
RESULTS – Study 2 (on line)

12. DISCUSSION – Study 2 (on line)
UN
BE
TR
AC
PO
ST
SD
CON
SE
HE
Cieciuch et al. (2013a,b)
Doring et al. (2015)

13. Study 2 – Online
n = 845 children
Subsample: 6-10 y
51% boys
Study 1 - In-person
n = 218 children
6-10 y (M = 7.6,
SD = 1.1)
50% girls
DISCUSSION – Values’ hierarchy

14. PVBS-C is a potential contribution to schools
for value education at schools as a diagnostic and monitoring instrument that
can also be used to assess the efficacy of interventions;
to assess children’s values in-person and online;
to promote and facilitate the discussion between parents, children, and teachers
around values and their relevance for educational processes and outcomes.

15. THANK YOU!
Dalila França Cicero Pereira Uelinton Moreira
These studies were funded by FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I. P., in the scope
of the project The Social Development of Human Values in Childhood and Early Adolescence
(Ref. FCT-PTDC/SOCSOC/30635/2017).