Annual of social work, Vol. 4 No. 1, 1997.
Professional paper
SOME PSYCHO-SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FIRST YEAR SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS
Natalija Rogulja
; Department of Social Work, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
This paper gives the results of studying some characteristics of the First year students of the School of Social Work in Zagreb. We tried to find out their motives to study at the School, their life goals and their perception of the factors that influence social promotion. The research has been don at the sample of 73 students; a questionnare has been used to find out the level of agreement with certain statements on the 1 to 5 scale. The results show that the most important motive to study at that particular school is their wish to help people professionally (average 4.45). On the other hand they have been very little influenced by somebody else (average 1.29). Their most important aim is to live in harmony with their conscience (average 4.84) while gaining the power is nearly not important at all (average 2.64). However, the students think that money is the most important factor of social success (average 4.38), while honesty, fairness and justice are less important (average 2.77). So we could say that students of social work live in discrepancy between values they honor and values that they see as dominant in the society.
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198456
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Publication date:
3.5.1997.
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