Human Values, Purpose & Meaning 2025 (Dataset)
Dataset summary: A de-identified open dataset (n=507) examining how adults understand their personal values, sense of meaning, life direction, fulfilment, behavioural alignment, and emotional wellbeing, including how these experiences relate to digital environments and emerging AI technologies.
Measures include values clarity, meaning and purpose, behavioural alignment and misalignment, fulfilment, self-trust, digital distraction from personal values, AI influence on decisions, emotional wellbeing, and demographic variables. The dataset provides behavioural insights into how people maintain purpose and alignment within increasingly technology-mediated lives.
Part of the Human Clarity Institute's Human–AI Experience Data Series.
Framework
HRL domain(s): Values & Meaning
Registry construct alignment: Behavioural Alignment, Meaning Coherence
Listed constructs reflect longitudinal, registry-mapped item alignment and do not represent the full thematic scope of this dataset.
Dataset Availability
Participant-level dataset downloads are temporarily unavailable while the Human Clarity Institute completes an independent privacy and data governance review.
This reflects our ongoing commitment to responsible data stewardship, contemporary de-identification standards, and participant privacy.
Study methodology, summary findings, benchmark statistics, and citation information remain publicly available through this website and the permanent Zenodo record.
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Citation & Dataset Record
The Zenodo DOI provides the permanent scholarly record for this dataset, including version history, metadata, and citation information.
Citation
APA
Human Clarity Institute. (2025). Human Values, Purpose & Meaning 2025 (Dataset). Human Clarity Institute. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17705733
BibTeX
@dataset{hci_human_values_purpose_meaning_2025,
author = {Human Clarity Institute},
title = {Human Values, Purpose & Meaning 2025 (Dataset)},
year = {2025},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.17705733},
url = {https://humanclarityinstitute.com/datasets/human-values-purpose-meaning-2025/},
license = {CC-BY-4.0}
}
License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
You are free to share, adapt, and build upon publicly available HCI datasets for any purpose, including commercial use, provided appropriate credit is given to the Human Clarity Institute.
Full licence text: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Data Summary
Explore the key findings and behavioural signals from this dataset.
Methodology
This dataset forms part of the Human Clarity Institute’s Human–AI Experience research programme, examining how people understand their personal values, sense of meaning and purpose, behavioural alignment, and emotional wellbeing within increasingly digital environments. The study uses a cross-sectional online survey design and explores descriptive patterns in values clarity, fulfilment, behavioural alignment, digital distraction, AI influence on decision-making, and broader indicators of human flourishing.
Data were collected via the Prolific research platform on 25 November 2025 from adults across six English-speaking countries. Participants provided informed consent for their de-identified survey responses to be publicly released for research purposes.
Sampling & Participants
- Final sample: 507 participants
- Sampling countries: United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland
- Eligibility: Adults (18+) fluent in English
- Recruitment platform: Prolific
The resulting dataset should be interpreted as a non-probability convenience sample and is not intended to represent national populations.
Data Integrity
All percentages reported on this page are calculated from valid responses in the cleaned dataset. Percentages are rounded to the nearest whole number for readability. Unless otherwise stated, summary percentages combine respondents selecting 5–7 on the 7-point agreement scale.
Public release datasets undergo structured de-identification prior to publication. Direct identifiers, participant IDs, timestamps, geographic variables, and participant free-text responses are removed or transformed where appropriate to reduce re-identification risk while preserving research utility.
This dataset is exploratory and descriptive in nature. It does not support causal inference and results should be interpreted as observed patterns within the survey sample.
Data use and reuse terms are outlined in our Data Use & Disclaimer.
Related Research
Explore further analysis in the Human Values, Purpose & Meaning Data Summary, or browse the full collection of Human Clarity Institute research reports.
Human Values in Practice: Coherence, Direction, and Human Functioning in Digitally Mediated Environments
Human Values in Practice examines how values alignment, direction, attention, and behavioural drift interact to shape coherence, self-trust, and human functioning within digitally mediated environments.
Values vs Noise
Values vs Noise explores how digitally saturated environments compete with attention, reflection, and internally guided priorities — shaping coherence, direction, and meaningful human functioning over time.