The Value Orientations of Chinese University Students in Hong Kong
Titel:
The Value Orientations of Chinese University Students in Hong Kong
Auteur:
Lau, Sing
Verschenen in:
International journal of psychology
Paginering:
Jaargang 23 (1988) nr. 1-6 pagina's 583-596
Jaar:
1988
Inhoud:
The Rokeach Value Survey was used to measure the value orientations of a large sample of 927 Chinese university students in Hong Kong. Based on their ranking of 18 terminal and 18 instrumental values. it was found that the students tended to put greater emphases on personal and competency oriented values. Specifically, the four most important terminal values were true friendship, happiness, self-respect, and wisdom; and the four least important terminal values were social recognition, a comfortable life, salutation, and pleasure. The four most important instrumental values included responsible, courageous, intellectual, and capable; and the four least important instrumental values included imaginative, polite, obedient, and clean. Male students tended to be more concerned with personal, accomplishment, and competency related values; whereas female students were more attracted to family, moral, and more intrinsic kinds of values. This study also provided evidence on the validity of the Rokeach Value Survey measure. It was shown that the values in the Rokcach measure correlated significantly with similar values in Scott's Personal Values Scale, another value measure with multi-item rating scales.
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