ABSTRACT

Acknowledgment: This work was supported by the Key Program and General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants 91124004, 31322023, and 31171002).

To ensure one’s safety is one of the most fundamental human objectives on all levels of social scope, ranging from an individual’s self-preservation to national security. This concern, along with other pursuits, has been addressed by the Circumplex Model of Goals, proposed by Grouzet et al. (2005), and its precursor, the Circumplex Model of Values, described by Schwartz (1992). Both models illuminate the interplay among various goals people work to attain, and clarify relations among values that people strive to uphold.