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The Values Project Blog Series – Part 3

The main aim of our research is to explore whether individuals with different value priorities allocate their money differently.We found that relations between values and spending were not haphazard. Rather, they were consistent with the motivational compatibilities and conflicts among values, with neighbouring values often showing similar relations to spending.
We report on value-expressive spending behaviour. We compare people who give relatively high priority to a value (i.e., top 25%) with people who give relatively low priority to the same value (i.e., bottom 25%).

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The Values Project Blog Series – Part 2

We asked people how they spend their time on a typical work day and a typical day off, based on the activity categories from the 2006 Australian Bureau of Statistics Time Use Survey. We grouped these activities into four broad time use categories: (1) Work and education activities, (2) family and social activities, (3) Personal leisure activities, and (4) Personal needs.
The aim of this analysis was to see if people with different value priorities allocated their time differently. The findings highlight distinct patterns of time use that are clearly consistent with the motivational compatibilities and conflicts between values, as depicted in the values circle.

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