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The Importance of Considering Approach and Avoidance in the Study of Personal Values

Khaligh, Nicholas Kian
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5170-6885
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1627406487681175

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2021, Master of Science, Ohio State University, Psychology.
Despite suggestions from multiple psychological literatures that motivations to approach positives and to avoid negatives can operate somewhat independently, the personal values literature continues to label and measure personal values in such a way as to place a near exclusive focus on the promotion of positive outcomes. Study 1 adapted a common measure of personal values into two subsets designed to describe the same motivations but in reference to either approach or avoidance, and tested the extent to which these scales differed within respondents and whether they were more appropriately modeled as expressing one or two latent variables. Studies 2a and 2b built upon the observed divergence in the measures introduced in Study 1 by demonstrating that value measures rewritten as to be framed in terms of avoidance better predicted behaviors similarly construed in terms of avoidance, and vice-versa. Study 3 expanded on the findings of Studies 2a and 2b by demonstrating that the incremental and at times individually greater predictive ability of these avoidance-reframed measures held up in the more value-ambiguous context that is receiving a COVID-19 vaccination. These findings primarily suggest that value theorists should consider the correspondence between the framing of value measures and of associated outcomes, and also pose some broader questions for the ways in which personal values are conceptualized.
Duane Wegener (Advisor)
Richard Petty (Advisor)
Curtis Haugvedt (Committee Chair)
87 p.
Psychology; Social Psychology
personal values; values; approach; avoidance; attitudes

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  • Khaligh, N. K. (2021). The Importance of Considering Approach and Avoidance in the Study of Personal Values [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1627406487681175

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Khaligh, Nicholas. The Importance of Considering Approach and Avoidance in the Study of Personal Values. 2021. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1627406487681175.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Khaligh, Nicholas. "The Importance of Considering Approach and Avoidance in the Study of Personal Values." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1627406487681175

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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