VALUES AND PERSONALITY.docx

VALUES AND PERSONALITY Values refer to people's stable life goals, reflecting what is most important to them. Values are established throughout a person's life as a resulting of accumulating experiences. Values tend to be relatively stable. Those values that are important to an individual tend to...

VALUES AND PERSONALITY Values refer to people's stable life goals, reflecting what is most important to them. Values are established throughout a person's life as a resulting of accumulating experiences. Values tend to be relatively stable. Those values that are important to an individual tend to affect the types of decisions they make, and how they perceive their environment and their actual behavior. Values have both content and intensity attributes. The content attribute says that a mode of conduct is important. The intensity attribute specifies how important it is. Value system can be defined as a hierarchy-based ranking of individual's values in terms of their intensity. Value is a judgmental element of what is right, good or desirable. as such values generally influence attitudes and emotions. We can predict reaction based on understanding values. Examples of values that people may have; - Achievement -- desire for personal success - Benevolence -- desire to protect the well-being of people who are close to the person. - Power -- desire for control over others, attaining power and prestige - Security -- Valuing safety and stability - Self-direction -the desire to be free and independence - Tradition -- acceptance of social customs and traditional ideas in a society Personality represents our patterns of thinking and feeling with no judgement involved. Values represent what we believe to be right. Values are deeply held principles that guide our choices and influences our emotions. Personal values; LOVE -- patience, kindness, forgiveness, trust and selflessness INTEGRITY -- Include truthfulness, sincerity, reliability, responsibility, consistency, commitment and dependability. **Types** **of values** Instrumental Values- These refer to preferable modes of behavior which results in achieving the terminal values. Shorter term goals. Terminal values - Refer to desirable end states of existence. These are the goals that a person would like to achieve during his or her lifetime.