Dalia Verbylė

Abstract

The article presents the scientific research: cognitive level of values of those who are studing the social work. According to the theoretical and empirical resarch there few indicators of conseptional level of values such as: the attitude to the values, their meanings, the knowing the essence of values and the factors of values.
The data reveals, that students choose the terminal values (final purposes) as the most important such as health, happy falimy, and important are following ones: happy life, inner harmony, mature love, selfesteem, friendship, wisdom, courage. At the same time there is luck of attention to beauty, creativity and national security. The instrumental values (which help to reach the final goals) are following: the most important is honor and others as altruizm, intelligence, sophistication, sensibility, self-control, compation, width of views, forgiveness, courage (more then a half). So the student do not see important values such as pride, imaginations and obedience. The results show that the students understand better meaning of terminal values rather than instrumental ones. The student do not know enough the meanings of the values that are not important for them. According the students the terminal and instrumental values are related to the same areas of values, which are their chosen the factors of values.

Article in Lithuanian

doi:10.5200/sm-hs.2012.092

Keyword(s): values; terminal values; instrumental values; meanings of values; areas of values; factors of values
DOI: 10.5200/337
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