Interpersonal Values Research Articles

Los valores interpersonales y su relación con los estilos atributivos en estudiantes de quinto de secundaria

La presente investigación tuvo como objetivo establecer la relación entre los valores Interpersonales y los estilos atributivos de estudiantes del 5.to año de educación secundaria. Se utilizó un método descriptivo correlacional, la muestra estuvo conformada por 400 alumnos, distribuidos proporcionalmente a la población. La investigación se llevó a cabo, utilizando el Cuestionario de estilos atributivos y el Cuestionario de Valores Interpersonales SIV de Leonard Gordon 1977. Los resultados indican de acuerdo con el coeficiente de correlación de Spearman que existe correlación significativa (p<0,05) entre los distintos valores interpersonales Soporte, Conformidad, Reconocimiento e Independencia con los Estilos Atributivos en el Área de Logros Académicos y Relaciones Interpersonales. Por el contrario no se obtuvieron correlaciones significativas entre los Valores Interpersonales Benevolencia y Liderazgo con los Estilos Atributivos en las Áreas de Logros Académicos y Relaciones Interpersonales.

Juicio moral y valores interpersonales en estudiantes de secundaria de las ciudades Lima y Jauja

La investigación realizada tuvo como objetivo establecer si existía o no relación entre el juicio moral y los valores interpersonales de los estudiantes de 4to y 5to de secundaria de Lima y Jauja. Para la realización del proyecto se evaluó a 355 estudiantes de 4to y 5to de secundaria, de ambos sexos, cuyas edades fluctuaron entre los 14 y 18 años de edad, procedentes de diversos centros educativos estatales de Lima y Jauja a quienes se aplicó el test de reflexión socio moral propuesta por Kohlberg y adaptado por Majluf (1986) y el Cuestionario de Valores Interpersonales SIV propuesta por Leonard Gordon adaptado por Higueras (1972) y Pérez (1987). Al ser procesados los resultados se encontró que las variables Juicio Moral y Valores Interpersonales se encuentran asociadas. El juicio moral se relaciona con las dimensiones conformidad, reconocimiento y benevolencia. Por otro lado, se encontró que existen diferencias significativas entre los alumnos de Jauja y Lima en valores interpersonales, pero no ocurre lo mismo con el juicio moral, tanto en Jauja como en Lima los estudiantes responden en forma similar. En las dimensiones de conformidad, reconocimiento y benevolencia de los estudiantes se muestra diferente en función del sexo. Las mujeres obtienen mejores resultados que los varones, no sucede lo mismo en el caso del juicio moral. Por último, se encontraron diferencias significativas entre el juicio moral y los valores en función del grado de instrucción.

Los estilos de vida y los valores interpersonales según la personalidad en jóvenes del departamento de Huánuco

El objetivo del estudio es determinar la medida en que los estilos de vida y los valores interpersonales difieren según la categoría en la que se ubican dentro de cada factor de personalidad de Caprara y Barbaranelli en los jóvenes del departamento de Huánuco. El método fue descriptivo correlacional, la muestra conformada por 374 jóvenes de ambos sexos a quienes se les aplicó: el Cuestionario BFQ “Big Five”, el Cuestionario de Valores Interpersonales “SIV” y el Cuestionario de Estilos de Vida. La validez y confiabilidad de dichos instrumentos fueron debidamente demostrados adaptando a baremos peruanos. Los resultados evidencian que los factores de personalidad del Big Five, no plantean diferencias significativas sobre los estilos de vida y los valores interpersonales.

Effect of psychological closeness on consumer attitudes toward fashion blogs: the moderating effect of fashion leadership and interpersonal LOV

This study examines the influence of psychological closeness to a personal fashion blogger on individuals' attitude toward a fashion blog and purchase intention toward the fashion products displayed by the blogger, while examining fashion leadership (Gutman & Mills, 1982) and List of Values (LOV; Kahle, 1983) interpersonal values as moderators. A convenience sample of 171 female college students in a US university provided usable responses to the survey. Findings from hierarchical regression analysis show that consumers' perceptions of psychological closeness to a blogger affect their attitude toward the blog and their purchase intentions toward the fashion products displayed by the blogger. Fashion leadership was found to be a critical moderating factor that influences the relationship between consumer connection to a blogger and consumer responses. Implications for both researchers and marketers and suggestions for future studies are discussed.

Internalized model minority myth, Asian values, and help-seeking attitudes among Asian American students.

The present study examined cultural factors underlying help-seeking attitudes of Asian American college students (N = 106). Specifically, we explored internalized model minority myth as a predictor of help-seeking attitudes and tested an intrapersonal-interpersonal framework of Asian values as a mechanism by which the two are related. Results indicated that internalized model minority myth significantly predicted unfavorable help-seeking attitudes, and emotional self-control mediated this relationship. Interpersonal values and humility were nonsignificant mediators, contrary to our hypotheses. The findings suggest that the investigation of internalized model minority myth in help-seeking research is a worthwhile endeavor, and they also highlight emotional self-control as an important explanatory variable in help-seeking attitudes of Asian American college students.

I feel what you feel if I like you: the effect of attractiveness on visual remapping of touch.

Observing touch being applied to another human's face enhances tactile perception for touch being applied to one's own face. This effect, termed the Visual Remapping of Touch (VRT), is maximal the greater the physical or conceptual similarity between observer and observed. An interesting possibility, however, is that even though the basic nature of the VRT is multisensory, a high cognitive level affinity from the observer toward the observed could modulate the VRT even in the face of decreased physical similarity. In the present study we manipulate the level of attractiveness of the avatars that participants observed being touched. By doing so, we either increased (attractive) or decreased (unattractive) the interpersonal judgment value toward the avatar, while always decreasing the physical semblance between the avatar shown and the original image. Results revealed that both for an avatar depicting oneself or a stranger, the VRT is present when touch is applied to an attractive, but not to an unattractive avatar. These findings suggest that basic multisensory effects, such as visuo-tactile interaction, are modulated by higher-level cognitive representations of the self and of others.

An analysis of consumer values, needs and behavior for liquid milk in Hazara, Pakistan

This study examines the relationship of consumer values, needs and behavior for effective positioning and target market. The purpose is to identify those motivational factors that influence the consumer to make purchase decision and types of personal values, motives, emotions and moods directing them. The research is based on survey with the sample from Hazara division using questionnaire. The findings indicate that personal and interpersonal values are found to be the main motivator behind the purchase of milk products. Among the three types of needs identified to be satisfied in order of importance are health, taste and environmental needs. Key words: Marketing, consumer values, behavior, LOV scale.

Interpersonal and Social Values Conflict Among Coastal Recreation Activity Groups in Hawaii

We report on user conflicts at six Hawaiian beaches and compare the extent to which evaluations of coastal recreation conflicts differ among groups. This information can be used to help understand current recreation users at coastal sites in Hawaii. Exploratory factor analyses supported a multidimensional interpersonal conflict factor based on four activity subgroups and a multidimensional social values conflict factor based on three activity subgroups. In this study, interpersonal and social values conflicts of Hawaii recreationists align themselves by recreation activity group and not by behavior. ANOVAs and t-tests were used to assess the conflict differences according to gender, residency status, location, age, and recreation activities. A discussion follows regarding the implications of our findings on managing conflict and users.

Examining the Relationship Amongst Varieties of Interpersonal Valuing and Mindfulness Processes in Eating Pathology

Despite the rising prevalence rates of eating disorders in today’s society, few effective treatments exist. Recently, acceptance and mindfulness-based processes have begun to receive increasing attention. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a cognitive behavioral treatment that promotes mindfulness-based processes in the context of personal values clarification and engagement. The addition of values to treatment protocols has yielded promising effects in several populations, but investigations of the role of values in eating behaviors are largely nonexistent. This study explored the relationship between valuing in interpersonal domains and aspects of mindfulness in the context of eating disorder symptomatology. Results indicate that both lack of success at living important interpersonal values and pliant valuing predict eating disorder symptoms and that pliant valuing predicts interpersonal problems. However, the relationship between pliance and both disordered eating and interpersonal problems disappears after aspects of mindfulness are added to the model. Implications for the use of ACT in the treatment of eating disorders are discussed.

Theorizing Values in Mathematics Performance

This study aimed to determine the college students’ personal and interpersonal values in relation to their performance in Contemporary Mathematics in the College of Teacher Education of Cebu Normal University. Specifically, it sought to address the following concerns: the students’ level of personal values; their level of interpersonal values; their performance in mathematics; and the relationship between their personal and interpersonal values and mathematics performance; ultimately leading to a theory validation on values and mathematics performance. The students are categorized as average in their Personal Values in terms of Practical Mindedness, Variety, Decisiveness and Goal Orientation as well as in their Interpersonal Values in terms of Support, Recognition, Independence and Benevolence. The college students’ personal and interpersonal values do not significantly affect their performance in mathematics. Thus, they could still perform well even if they have not acquired these values. As a result, this study validates the world-view of mathematics through the ages that scientific thinking as utilized in this discipline is concerned with truth and not values, implying that it is truly objective, values- free and neutral. Keywords – theorizing values, mathematics performance

Motivational determinants of interpersonal distress: How interpersonal goals are related to interpersonal problems

This study aimed to link interpersonal goals with interpersonal problems and psychological distress and to investigate changes in these variables during an inpatient psychotherapeutic treatment. Two hundred and fifty-eight patients treated in a psychosomatic hospital completed the German versions of the Circumplex Scales of Interpersonal Values, the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems, and the Outcome Questionnaire before and at the end of their treatment. Patients initially reported a strong need for bonding in the CSIV. Especially interpersonal goals related to avoidant, submissive, and altruistic behavior were associated with a wide range of different interpersonal problems, and were associated with more psychological distress. At the end of treatment, patients showed no substantial changes in their predominant communal goals, but significantly reduced submissive goals. Additionally, changes of these goals were associated with changes of various interpersonal problems and psychological distress. Focusing the value patients place on submissive experiences could help to improve interpersonal problems.

Confucian dynamism work values and team performance: A multiple-level analysis

In this study we clarified the multiple-level effects of Confucian-related work values, including self-discipline and interpersonal ethics, on the performance of individuals and the team. Empirical data of 70 work teams with 472 team members from Taiwanese enterprises were collected to test our hypotheses. Results showed that, at the group level, shared team values of interpersonal ethics were positively related to team performance through the partial mediation of team cooperation. For cross-level effect, shared team values of interpersonal ethics and individual member's self-discipline values were both positively related to individual performance. The implications of Confucian dynamism work values on contemporary organizational management and indigenous Chinese team theories were provided.

Antecedents of the Male Adolescent Identity Crisis

Erikson (1950) contends that the physical changes associated with puberty serve as a catalyst for adolescents to question childhood identifications and to consolidate these with current self-conceptions, personal ideologies, interpersonal values, and future aspirations. Erikson describes the adolescent identity crisis as the developmental period when identity development becomes salient. For males, pubertal changes have implications for sexual identity development and self-perceptions of masculinity, which are aspects of the identity exploration and integration process that occurs during adolescence. This study is an examination of the impact of age, grade, and physical development on male identity development. A purposive sample of 173 Anglo-American male participants in Grades 6 through 12 completed the Petersen Development Scale and The Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status (EOM-EIS) in their homes. Statistical analyses revealed that physical development shared more variability (20% explained) with the identity measure than either age (8.3%) or grade (4.2%). Advanced physical development correlates with lower Foreclosure scores and higher Moratorium and Achievement scores. These findings are consistent with Erikson’s life span theory of psychosocial development.

Binds and bounds of communion: Effects of interpersonal values on assumed similarity of self and others.

Assumed similarity refers to ascribing similar attributes to the self and others. Because self-other similarity facilitates communion, people who value communion should be prone to assume self-other similarity; but because self-other similarity also evokes obligation, they may be prone to assume similarity only with others with whom they are or would feel comfortable being interconnected. We tested these hypotheses in 5 studies (total N = 1,709). In Study 1, students indicated their political preferences and estimated other students' preferences. In Studies 2-5, students described their personality and the personalities of the following targets: actual or imagined romantic partners in Study 2; ingroup members (students from the respondents' university) and outgroup members (students from a foreign university) in Studies 3-4; and specific liked and disliked others in Study 5. As hypothesized, people with stronger communal values were more likely to assume self-other similarity with liked others, romantic partners, and ingroup members, but not with disliked others and outgroup members. These effects replicated across different cultures (India, Korea, and the United States) and remained significant when controlling for self-esteem, national identification, and attribute desirability. Although people who valued communion tended to depict themselves and liked and ingroup others in relatively normative (typical) ways, which partially explained assumptions of similarity and indicated that those assumptions were to some extent accurate, communal values continued to predict distinctive self-other similarity or "false consensus" even after controlling for the normative prevalence of attributes.

Personal and interpersonal value system, self-perception and identity of Spanish nurses: a cross-sectional study

The aim of this research is to identify the predominant values system among a sample of Spanish nurses, to identify how values are tied to professional nursing identity and determine differences in values and identity between socio-demographic variables as a gender, citizenship and/or nursing service. Cross-sectional study was performed with a randomised sample of 337 staff nurses who had worked for a minimum of one year in adult or paediatric services in the public or private health care system in the Northern State in Spain. Gordon’s Personality Inventory was administered to measure the personal, interpersonal and self image of sample. The study found differences in personal and interpersonal values across generational cohorts, gender and ethnic group. Evidence of feminisation of values among male nurses was also found – in terms of age and professionally, they may take fewer risks and show a tendency toward congruence with the predominant organisational culture.

Personal and situational values predict ethical reasoning

In interpersonal value conflicts ethical principles are employed to justify own actions. However, there is competition among ethical principles. Therefore the preference for a specific ethical principle may be merely a function both of personal values and of the value-laden situations in which actions are made. A German sample of 132 partici-pants rated their agreement on ten justifications in seven experimentally constructed situations. The situations varied in their expression of values, organized by the value circle (Schwartz, 1992). The justifications assess five ethical principles (deontology, utilitarianism, partiality, hedonism, and intuitionism). Variance components of the agreement ratings were separated using GLM and plotted in the value circle. Preferences for ethical principles depended on both the value content of situations and the responder values. The Person x Situation interaction was not significant. The results illustrate the difficulties in gaining agreement on arguments among individuals with conflicting values.

Valores interpersonales en estudiantes del I y VIII ciclo académico de una universidad privada

This research enables to know the impact of the Transversal Axis of Ethics and Values, in the development ofinterpersonal values in the students of the first and eight cycle of a private university. The aforementioned axisis complementary to the academic education in aspects related to values like solidarity, leadership, support,among others; and it has as the objective to contribute to human education. For this research it was used theSurvey of Interpersonal Values of Leonard Gordon, applying it to a sample of 366 students from differentprofessional schools from the 1st and VIII cycle of studies; from which 232 students correspond to the first cycleand 134 students correspond to the eight cycle.The main obtained results clearly show that the Transversal Axis of Ethics and Values has influenced in thedevelopment of compliance and recognition in the students of different professional schools. The VIII cyclestudents show a more analytic attitude toward conventional social rules. The 1st cycle students show a greaternecessity to be recognized and admired by others. The values of support, independence, benevolence and leadershipdo not present significant differences between the groups of students from the 1st and the VIII cycle; but it isobserved a slight increase in the values of independence and leadership in favor of the VIII cycle students.The results by gender point out that for male students the scale that presents significant differences is the onefrom recognition. For the female students the scales with differences are the ones from compliance and recognition.

The Service Models of Frontline Employees

Abstract Service literature has implicitly assumed that frontline employees (FLEs) share a common understanding of the term “customer service.” Perhaps because of this assumption, differences in FLE attitudes, behaviors, and performance have been ascribed to organizational characteristics, social environment, job characteristics, or personality. This article shows that FLEs' interpretations of customer service also matter. Using qualitative and quantitative data, this study finds that three distinct interpretations of customer service, or service models, exist among retail FLEs: (1) the act of giving customers what they ask for, efficiently and courteously; (2) a means to accomplishing immediate objectives, such as sales quotas; and (3) the formation of mutually beneficial relationships with customers through problem solving. Service models are related to FLEs' customer orientation, competence, surface and deep acting, and interpersonal values. The findings indicate that differences in FLEs' attitudes, be...

The Service Models of Frontline Employees

Service literature has implicitly assumed that frontline employees (FLEs) share a common understanding of the term “customer service.” Perhaps because of this assumption, differences in FLE attitudes, behaviors, and performance have been ascribed to organizational characteristics, social environment, job characteristics, or personality. This article shows that FLEs’ interpretations of customer service also matter. Using qualitative and quantitative data, this study finds that three distinct interpretations of customer service, or service models, exist among retail FLEs: (1) the act of giving customers what they ask for, efficiently and courteously; (2) a means to accomplishing immediate objectives, such as sales quotas; and (3) the formation of mutually beneficial relationships with customers through problem solving. Service models are related to FLEs’ customer orientation, competence, surface and deep acting, and interpersonal values. The findings indicate that differences in FLEs’ attitudes, behaviors, and performance can arise from their keeping of different service models; illuminate individual-level beliefs underlying service typologies, such as goods- and service-dominant logic; and suggest that FLE recruitment and training should take service models into account.

Olhares sobre o ambiente em diferentes momentos de escolarização

Nesta pesquisa narrativa, objetivamos caracterizar concepções de ambiente de 181 discentes vivenciando Ensino Fundamental (5ª e 8ª séries), Ensino Médio (3º ano) e Ensino Superior (4º e o último semestres de Pedagogia), averiguando ainda possíveis distinções de complexidade. O instrumento aplicado foi um questionário. A análise das respostas evidenciou que concepções de ambiente são representações sociais, por estarem, simultaneamente, na base da elaboração de comportamentos e da comunicação interpessoal, expondo experiências e valores culturais socialmente configurados. Percebemos predominância de dois entendimentos entre os sujeitos, influenciados pela práxis escolar e pela mídia: o ambiente onde vivo, estou e vou, cenário das interações do Homo sapiens entre si e com os demais componentes do ambiente; o manancial de vida, fonte dos elementos que asseguram o existir. Dessas concepções, emergem duas categorias: o ambiente universal, cujos limites podem extrapolar a atmosfera terrestre, sendo pleno de paz e harmonia e configurado por todas as relações entre os diversos integrantes ambientais; o ambiente do homem, substrato de nossa existência, composto por cidades, casas, escolas, praças e ruas. As inter-relações entre os dois ambientes são mediadas por cultura e tecnologia. Constatamos intenso antropocentrismo nos sujeitos, que se julgam privilegiados por serem da espécie capaz de decidir o destino do ambiente. Tais achados podem contribuir, simultaneamente, na Educação Ambiental e na Educação em Ciências, voltadas à busca do equilíbrio de nossas relações com os demais integrantes ambientais.