The following message is being delivered on behalf of Interamerican Journal of Psychology.
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Carmen Lydia Rivera-Medina:

I believe that you would serve as an excellent reviewer of the manuscript, "Functional Theory of Values: Results of a Confirmatory Factor Analysis with Portuguese Youths," which has been submitted to Revista Interamericana de Psicologia/Interamerican Journal of Psychology. The submission's abstract is inserted below, and I hope that you will consider undertaking this important task for us.

Please log into the journal web site by 2016-07-24 to indicate whether you will undertake the review or not, as well as to access the submission and to record your review and recommendation. The web site is http://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP

The review itself is due 2016-08-14.

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Submission URL: http://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP/reviewer/submission/95

Thank you for considering this request.

Dr. Edil Torres Rivera
Universidad del Valle, Guatemala
etorresrivera@gmail.com



"Functional Theory of Values: Results of a Confirmatory Factor Analysis with Portuguese Youths"

Abstract

This study aims to test the functional theory of life values with Portuguese youths, based on the Basic Values Survey (BVS). A content hypothesis predicting a six-dimensional values model and a structure hypothesis predicting the representation of values into two space dimensions are tested. Participants include 815 youths (444 girls) with a mean age of 15.3 years old (SDage = 1.89). The content hypothesis was verified using confirmatory factor analysis. The structure hypothesis was verified through confirmatory (proxscal) multidimensional scaling. The results indicate that the six sub functions of values (content hypothesis) can be organized in a bi-dimensional space with three types of orientation and two types of motivator (structure hypothesis). Concluding, multiple indicators provide evidence for the psychometric properties of BVS in Portugal.
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Edil Torres Rivera, Ph.D., Editor
Interamerican Journal of Psychology
http://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP