The portrait values questionnaire: a bibliographic and bibliometric review of the instrument

This paper contains a bibliographic and a bibliometric review of the Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ), the instrument proposed by Schwartz to assess human values. Schwartz's theory of human values is one of the most popular of its kind in the social sciences. To set out the framework of the PVQ, we shall briefly present the underlying theory, followed by a discussion of the different instruments developed by Schwartz to assess human values. Finally, we have performed a detailed review to analyse how the PVQ has been used in the scholarly literature. A total of 58 articles were reviewed to obtain a picture of how the scientific community uses this instrument and to explore the variables most commonly related to human values. Several conclusions are briefly discussed.