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The Japanese version of the Material Values Scale: construct assessment and relationship with age, personality, and subjective well-being
BACKGROUND: Materialism indicates the extent to which an individual’s life is focused on consumerism, or the acquisition of money and possessions. The Material Values Scale (MVS), comprising the factors “success,” “centrality,” and “happiness,” is a well-known rating scale for materialism. However,...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9375416/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35964107 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-022-00889-3 |
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description | BACKGROUND: Materialism indicates the extent to which an individual’s life is focused on consumerism, or the acquisition of money and possessions. The Material Values Scale (MVS), comprising the factors “success,” “centrality,” and “happiness,” is a well-known rating scale for materialism. However, a Japanese version of the materialism scale has not yet been established, and the details of the factors and effects related to materialism have not yet been clarified in Japan. The purpose of this study is to develop and evaluate the Japanese version of the MVS (J-MVS). METHODS: We developed the translated J-MVS using a back-translation process. To validate and evaluate the scale based on an online survey, we recruited 500 people, with 100 participants (50 men, 50 women) in five age groups, from 20 to 69 years. We compared and evaluated several factor structure models based on exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. To evaluate the external criterion-referenced validity of the developed J-MVS scale, we examined the relationship between age, personality, and well-being, which have shown stable relationships with materialism in previous studies. RESULTS: We developed two six-item dual-factor models. Both models showed significant positive correlations with social comparison orientation and neuroticism, and had significant negative correlations with various subjective well-being indices, suggesting sufficient external criterion-referenced validity. The J-MVS comprising six positive-worded items (J-MVS-P6; without any reverse-worded items) showed a higher correlation with other indicators than the version comprising six items representing all item types and was considered to have higher external criterion-referenced validity. CONCLUSIONS: We propose the J-MVS-P6 for use as a materialism scale in Japan. Compared with the findings from other countries, materialism in Japan may be more closely related to subjective well-being. This scale may be used to examine the effectiveness of various intervention methods for improving individuals’ happiness, based on changes in factors closely related to materialism in Japan. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s40359-022-00889-3. |
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spelling | pubmed-93754162022-08-14 The Japanese version of the Material Values Scale: construct assessment and relationship with age, personality, and subjective well-being Ohno, Hiroshi Lee, Kyung-Tae Maeno, Takashi BMC Psychol Research Article BACKGROUND: Materialism indicates the extent to which an individual’s life is focused on consumerism, or the acquisition of money and possessions. The Material Values Scale (MVS), comprising the factors “success,” “centrality,” and “happiness,” is a well-known rating scale for materialism. However, a Japanese version of the materialism scale has not yet been established, and the details of the factors and effects related to materialism have not yet been clarified in Japan. The purpose of this study is to develop and evaluate the Japanese version of the MVS (J-MVS). METHODS: We developed the translated J-MVS using a back-translation process. To validate and evaluate the scale based on an online survey, we recruited 500 people, with 100 participants (50 men, 50 women) in five age groups, from 20 to 69 years. We compared and evaluated several factor structure models based on exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. To evaluate the external criterion-referenced validity of the developed J-MVS scale, we examined the relationship between age, personality, and well-being, which have shown stable relationships with materialism in previous studies. RESULTS: We developed two six-item dual-factor models. Both models showed significant positive correlations with social comparison orientation and neuroticism, and had significant negative correlations with various subjective well-being indices, suggesting sufficient external criterion-referenced validity. The J-MVS comprising six positive-worded items (J-MVS-P6; without any reverse-worded items) showed a higher correlation with other indicators than the version comprising six items representing all item types and was considered to have higher external criterion-referenced validity. CONCLUSIONS: We propose the J-MVS-P6 for use as a materialism scale in Japan. Compared with the findings from other countries, materialism in Japan may be more closely related to subjective well-being. This scale may be used to examine the effectiveness of various intervention methods for improving individuals’ happiness, based on changes in factors closely related to materialism in Japan. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s40359-022-00889-3. BioMed Central 2022-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9375416/ /pubmed/35964107 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-022-00889-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Ohno, Hiroshi Lee, Kyung-Tae Maeno, Takashi The Japanese version of the Material Values Scale: construct assessment and relationship with age, personality, and subjective well-being |
title | The Japanese version of the Material Values Scale: construct assessment and relationship with age, personality, and subjective well-being |
title_full | The Japanese version of the Material Values Scale: construct assessment and relationship with age, personality, and subjective well-being |
title_fullStr | The Japanese version of the Material Values Scale: construct assessment and relationship with age, personality, and subjective well-being |
title_full_unstemmed | The Japanese version of the Material Values Scale: construct assessment and relationship with age, personality, and subjective well-being |
title_short | The Japanese version of the Material Values Scale: construct assessment and relationship with age, personality, and subjective well-being |
title_sort | japanese version of the material values scale: construct assessment and relationship with age, personality, and subjective well-being |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9375416/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35964107 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-022-00889-3 |
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