Identification and description of individual lifestyles as characteristics of life activity

Daria Miseng

doi:10.18290/rpsych.2019.22.3-3

Daria Miseng Institute for Social and Political Psychology NAES Ukraine

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rpsych.2019.22.3-3

Keywords: individual lifestyle, individual values, lifestyle construction, life practices

Abstract

Recent research suggests that individual values play a significant role in the structuring and functioning of a lifestyle. In the present study we empirically examine the relation between individual values and lifestyles and describe its peculiarities. The article covers the results of quantitative content analysis and principal component analysis, carried out for empirical indicators of lifestyle for Ukrainian high school students and undergraduates (N = 170). The results are presented by eleven components distinguished as a result of the empirical study, which describe individual lifestyles in their connection with basic human values. Our findings suggest that basic human values serve as the ground for individual lifestyle construction and life practices or arrangements.

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