Original scientific paper
Values and Value Orientations of Adolescents: Hierarchy and Correlation with Attitudes and Behaviours
Renata FRANC
Vlado ŠAKIĆ
Ines IVIČIĆ
Abstract
This work aimed to establish the hierarchy of values of adolescents
and the possibilities of interpreting attitudes and behaviours
based on value orientations. The examination took
place in 1998 and 2 823 adolescents participated comprising a
representative sample of high school students of the Republic of
Croatia in 1998. Two scales of values were used: the Scale of
ranking values, and the Scale of value orientations operationalising
conventional, self-realising and hedonist orientations. The
attitudes analysed were the evaluation of factors responsible for
success in life and social responsibility, while the behaviours
analysed were ways of spending free time and substance abuse.
In the adolescents' hierarchy of values the greatest importance is
given to values from the group of self-realising values and the
least to values from the hedonist group. Regression analyses and
control of the contribution of sociodemographic variables indicate
a significant possibility of interpreting analysed attitudes and
behaviours on the basis of value orientations, whereas a better
explanation of attitudes than behaviours has been achieved. The
direction and relative size of the predictive contribution of a particular
value orientation differ for certain attitudes and behaviours.
Based on the results of regression analyses and a conditional
distribution of analysed attitudes and behaviours to "socially
desirable" and "socially undesirable" outcomes of socialisation,
conventional orientation in the context of analysed outcomes
appears as a protective factor of socialisation in opposition
to the hedonist orientation which is revealed as a risky
value orientation.
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Hrčak ID:
19686
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Publication date:
30.6.2002.
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