The structure of social values: Validation of Rokeach's two-value model

This research sought to investigate the validity of Rokeach's two-dimensional model of political ideology. In two separate studies, samples of Australian adults and university students were asked to complete the Social Values Inventory, a newly derived instrument designed to provide a more detailed coverage of the political ideology domain. Factor analyses of each set of data revealed a basic twodimensional structure defined as international harmony and equality and national strength andorder. While this solution only partially supported Rokeach's model, it did bear some resemblance to a typology identified qy Scott (1960). The implications of these findings for Rokeach's model are discussed, as are strategies for resolving the present lack of concordance between these conceptual schemata.