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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 11.
Published in final edited form as: Health Mark Q. 2008;25(0):66–96. doi: 10.1080/07359680802126087

Table 3.

SRIC-BI (2005a) activity, interest, and media information for each VALS group

Sample of Characteristic Behavior Media Usage
Innovators
  • Actively work as a volunteer

  • Take vitamin supplements

  • Access the Internet at home, make purchases on-line, and track investments on-line

  • Buy 15 or more books a year

  • Own the latest and greatest cell phone with all the features

  • Easily spend over a $1,000 on clothing each year

  • Attend dance performances, live theatre, and museums

  • Listen to folk music, jazz, and classical radio stations

  • Interested in history and biography genres


Thinkers
  • Actively work as a volunteer

  • Take vitamin supplements

  • Ask physicians about advertised prescriptions

  • Access the Internet at home, make purchases on-line, and track investments on-line

  • Buy 15 or more books a year

  • Not savvy cell phone users

  • Spend over just a $1,000 on clothing each year

  • Attend live theatre and museums

  • Listen to light classical, classical and easy listening radio stations

  • Interested in both history, fictional stories/novels, and personal/business self-help


Believers
  • Take some vitamin supplements (e.g., Gingko biloba)

  • Do not regularly access the Internet at home

  • Ask physicians about advertised prescriptions

  • Trying to quit smoking

  • Do not many buy books

  • Not savvy cell phone users

  • Do not spend more than $1,000 on clothing each year

  • Listen to gospel, easy listening, and faith/inspiration radio stations

  • Interested in romance, religion, and cooking genres


Achievers
  • Listen to contemporary Christian, business/professional and soft rock radio stations

  • Interested in children's books

  • Interested in programming, personal/business self-help information

  • Interested in adventure/role playing genres

  • Take some vitamin supplements

  • Make purchases, track investments, and play games online

  • Do not ask physicians about advertised prescriptions

  • Heavy users of fast food/drive through restaurants

  • Rent a lot of DVDs; sometimes buy books

  • Own the latest and greatest cell phone with all the features

  • Spend more than $1,000 on clothing each year


Makers
  • Trying to quit smoking

  • Do not make purchases on-line

  • Sometimes ask physicians about advertised prescriptions

  • Sometimes uses fast food/drive through restaurants

  • Do not buy many books or rent DVDs

  • Not savvy cell phone users

  • Most spend less than $1,000 on clothing each year

  • Attend auto shows and country music performances

  • Interested in collections (e.g., electric trains, figurines, and sports trading cards, stamps, and coins)

  • Listen to country music and faith/inspiration radio stations

  • Interested in cooking/cookbooks