2.9.1. Valued Living Questionnaire (VLQ)

The VLQ [42] is a questionnaire exploring some areas of life that people consider important such as family relationships, marriage/being in a couple, intimate relationships, friends, social relationships, work, culture/training, leisure/entertainment, spirituality, civic commitment/community life, and self-care. The questionnaire provides an importance score, in which, for each dimension, the person is asked to rate on a scale from 1 (not at all important) to 10 (extremely important) how important that area of their life is. They are then asked to evaluate how much, in the last week, their actions have been congruent with the values considered, on a scale ranging from 1 (completely incongruent actions) to 10 (completely congruent actions). The questionnaire provides a composite score that is calculated through the application of a formula from which the degree to which the person, in relation to the importance given to a specific area, behaves in a manner consistent with it being obtained. The indices obtained from this scale are the VLQI, which detect how much importance the subject assigns to the ten measured domains, the VLQC which measures how much the person is engaged in behaviors that are congruent with their values, and the VLQtot which indicates the composite score with which the degree to which the person is in contact with their personal values in everyday life is measured.