The Japanese version of the Material Values Scale: construct assessment and relationship with age, personality, and subjective well-being

Table 1 Factor loadings for the J-MVS-A6 and J-MVS-P6 (N = 500)

			Factor loadings for the J-MVS-A6		Factor loadings for the J-MVS-P6
Item num.	Domain	Item	Success/Centrality	Happiness	Success/Centrality	Happiness
1	S/C	I admire people who own expensive homes, cars, and clothes. (3, 6, 9, 15)	0.75		0.74
5	S/C	I like to own things that impress people. (9, 15)	–		0.49
12	S/C	I like a lot of luxury in my life. (3, 6, 9, 15)	0.71		0.72
15	H	My life would be better if I owned certain things I don’t have. (6, 9, 15)		0.75		0.72
16	H	I wouldn’t be any happier if I owned nicer things. (15) R		0.55		–
17	H	I’d be happier if I could afford to buy more things. (3, 6, 9, 15)		0.88		0.88
18	H	It sometimes bothers me quite a bit that I can’t afford to buy all the things I’d like. (9, 15)		0.65		0.67

Phi matrix: happiness	0.55		0.55
Mean	2.44	3.20	2.42	3.18
SD	1.01	0.84	0.89	0.92
Skewness	0.31	0.22	0.28	0.14
Kurtosis (difference from 3.00)	− 0.65	− 0.23	− 0.49	− 0.39
Mean (overall)	2.95		2.80
SD (overall)	0.76		0.77
Skewness (overall)	0.27		0.20
Kurtosis (difference from 3.00) (overall)	− 0.25		− 0.24

Numbers in parentheses indicate items adopted in various abbreviated versions of the original version (e.g., “3” means the 3-items version of MVS) [9]
R, reversed items

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