Individual personal values as mediators during behavioral perception and transference

Sunil Kumar

doi:10.5964/ijpr.v12i1.221

Abstract

Perception and transference are two behavioral processes affecting human existence and survival. This study focuses on the concept of interpersonal relationships of university students during transference and perceived behavioral processes. Information was gathered from 234 university students. Three factors, i.e., perceived behavior, personal values, and transference behavior were explored. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to validate the proposed conceptual model and hypotheses were tested with structure equation modeling. The findings support the mediational role of personal values in perceived and transferred behavior and also the role of personal values in passing of activated schema from an interpersonal relationship to another. This study will provide a rational ground to behavior scientists that it’s the ‘Eigenwelt’ responsible for achieving full individual potential in case of ‘Mitwelt’.

Highlights

Perception and transference are two behavioral processes affecting human existence and survival
This study investigated how perceived behavioral attributes are transferred to other informal interpersonal relation among students
The covariance between the constructs was 0.44 between perceived behavior and personal values, 0.24 between perceived behavior and transference behavior, and 0.58 covariance is between personal values and transference behavior

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Perception and transference are two behavioral processes affecting human existence and survival. Buber (1958) put forward the proposal of interpersonal theory and divided human life into three worlds: the Eigenwelt, related to self, the Umwelt, the natural environment around humans, and the Mitwelt, referring to interpersonal relationship. Buber marked these three worlds as I, It and Thou. The output of applying this interpersonal theory in academic world depends on student’s self-definition, academic work itself and other people’s role in academic life These constructs lead the student to build interpersonal relationship for deciding educational output effectiveness. Opportunities for growth and continuous development forced behavioral researchers to think again and again about interpersonal relationship theories. Moskowitz (2005) observed that when participants perform the role of supervisors they become more dominant and this dominant behavior is more important to a person with a higher status role

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