Personal Values of Secondary School Students

Authors: Dr. Yodida Bhutia

Pages: 1-8

Abstract:

Personal values of individuals develop with experience and interaction with significant others. It directs and guides client’s choices later in life. It is interesting to find that the secondary schools students have high religious, democratic, economic, power and family prestige value whereas the students have low social, knowledge, hedonistic and health value. The choices and personal values were implicitly affected by the culture, gender as well as locality. The schools can play a pivotal role to provide adequate counselling and guidance so that proper values are inculcated by students. The study found out that the students of secondary schools of Shillong have very high economic and power value and have high religious and family prestige value. They have low health value and very low social value, which is a matter of concern. Gender plays a significant role in having democratic value and health value whereas there is significant difference between students from urban and rural areas in religious, social, hedonistic, power and family prestige value. These students of adolescence stage are growing and inculcating various values and it a prime time to provide them with counselling so that they may value those values which helps them to shape in to a better person.