Reflection of Personal values of your behaviour
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Personal Values are “broad desirable goals that motivate people’s actions and serve as guiding principles in their lives”.
Personal values are desirable to an individual and represent what is important to someone. The same value in different people can elicit different behaviours, eg if someone values success one person may work very hard to gain success in their career whereas someone else may take advantage of others to climb the career ladder.
A person can have many values with an individual assigning more importance to some values over others. It has been shown that the values that are most important to you often guide your decision making in all aspects of your life such as career, religion, social circles, self-identity etc.
A personal value is a broad concept and one particular value can be applied to various situations [1]. For example, if an important value to you is loyalty this could be applied to your family, friends or work environment.
Schwartz in 1992 presented 10 motivationally distinct types of values as listed below. These values have been researched in many countries and have been found to be universal in cross-cultural applications.
- Self-direction eg freedom, creativity
- Stimulation e.g. exciting life, daring
- Hedonism e.g. pleasure, self-indulgent
- Achievement e.g. ambitious, successful
- Power e.g. wealth, authority
- Security e.g. social order, family security, cleanliness
- Conformity e.g. politeness, self-discipline, respect
- Tradition e.g. respect for traditions, modest, humble, devout
- Benevolence e.g. loyal, responsible, helpful, forgiving
- Universalism e.g. equality, wisdom, world of peace, social justice, protecting the environment
Lists of personal values can be indefinite but research has shown a value will generally fit into one of those 10 types. There is no set of ideal values and everyone will have their own list of values with unique importance assigned to each one.
Personal values may and may not correlate with a person’s behaviour. Some values may be practised by an individual and executed in daily life. A personal value may be important to someone, but they are not implementing it in their daily life, and they would like to implement it. And an individual may have a set of personal values that is not in line with their behaviour.