Modified Inglehart Values Questionnaire Test

People who want to examine how their priorities relate to security, authority, tradition, tolerance, and autonomy may find the Modified Inglehart Values Questionnaire Test useful. It is intended for self-reflection by readers exploring their cultural orientations. The Inglehart values questionnaire organizes responses for comparison across two broad value continua, showing how views cluster around security and self-expression and around traditional and secular-rational orientations.

What This Assessment Explores

The assessment places opinions about social order and personal priorities into a concise cultural profile. A concise cultural profile from this modified values questionnaire gives readers a way to reflect on how their views align across related areas of life.

The dimensions and thematic focus are:

• Survival Values vs. Self-Expression Values (-21-21) shows whether responses favor material security, traditional roles, and authoritarianism or tolerance, self-development, and emancipation. It places results in Survival-oriented (-21--1), Mixed orientation (0-0), and Self-expression-oriented (1-21).
• Traditional vs. Secular-Rational Values (-21-21) shows whether responses favor religiosity, family, and authority or personal freedom and emancipation from norms. It places results in Traditional (-21--1), Mixed/Neutral (0-0), and Secular-rational (1-21).
• Question themes link money, work, family, religion, authority, parenting, democracy, and tolerance to the broader cultural orientations reflected in the profile.

Methodology and Scientific Basis

Each item uses a seven-point agreement scale, from strong disagreement to strong agreement, with "I don’t know" at the centre. Respondents rate their agreement with statements about family, work, authority, religion, parenting, democracy, and personal freedom.

For each continuum, the values questionnaire results include a score and its corresponding interpretive band. Higher or lower scores indicate the side named by that continuum; the two results are read separately, so they can point in different directions.

Its conceptual reference point is the cross-national work of Inglehart and Baker, which distinguishes material-security from emancipatory orientations and traditional from secular-rational orientations. Inglehart and Welzel link these dimensions with modernization and human development, while Lakatos discusses their interpretation. This questionnaire is conceptually consistent with that framework, not a reproduction of those studies.

The displayed bands are interpretive score labels for this online version; they do not establish population norms or clinical cutoffs. Financial pressure, family experience, social expectations, and item interpretation may affect self-report results, making the profile a structured snapshot for reflection rather than a diagnostic conclusion.