Health, family, and life: Content, psychological connections, and hierarchy of basic values

A hierarchy of basic values was established, and psychologically relevant connections within their content were examined. A survey revealed ten values regarded as most important by the respondents. Their degrees of importance were determined using a ranking analysis. Based on the experimentally derived weight indices, the first three ranks were assigned to the values of “health” (0.012), “family” (0.011), and “life” (0.009). A large number of overlapping associates ( important, value, main, most importantly, calmness , etc.), which were found by comparing the associative fields of “health”, “family”, and “life”, point to the proximity of the psychological meanings of the values under study. The associative links between the values of “health” and “family” turned out to be the strongest. It is confirmed by the highest overlapping associate strength (0.0049), demonstrating the degree of closeness of the concepts and the strength of psychological connections in their content, while the stable grounds for the family–health predication are due to a large number of overlapping associates (14).