Personal Value

A Personal Value is a value of a person.

• Context:
  • It can range from being a Personal Life-Oriented Value to being a Personal Career-Oriented Value.
  • It can range from being an Explicit Person Value (e.g. in an personal values statement) to being an Implicit Personal Value.
  • It can range from being a Core Personal Value, an Aspirational Personal Value, a Permission-to-Play Personal Value, an Accidental Personal Value.
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• Example(s):
  • a Personal Value of Communication.
  • a Personal Value of Respect / Respect (e.g. “Everyone should be treated with respect and dignity").
  • a Personal Value of Integrity / Integrity.
  • a Personal Aesthetic Value, such as a Personal Value of Excellence (e.g. “Excellence deserves admiration").
  • a Personal Ideological Value, such as: "Equal rights for all".
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Community Value.
  • an Organizational Value.
  • a Personal Taste.
• See: Value System, Economic Value, Principle Value, Subjectivity, Beliefs, Norm (Sociology).

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References

2021

• (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/value_(ethics)#Personal_values Retrieved:2021-12-27.
  • Personal values provide an internal reference for what is good, beneficial, important, useful, beautiful, desirable and constructive. Values are one of the factors that generate behavior (besides needs, interests and habits) and influence the choices made by an individual.

    Values may help common human problems for survival by comparative rankings of value, the results of which provide answers to questions of why people do what they do and in what order they choose to do them.Moral, religious, and personal values, when held rigidly, may also give rise to conflicts that result from a clash between differing world views. Over time the public expression of personal values that groups of people find important in their day-to-day lives, lay the foundations of law, custom and tradition. Recent research has thereby stressed the implicit nature of value communication. Consumer behavior research proposes there are six internal values and three external values. They are known as List of Values (LOV) in management studies. They are self respect, warm relationships, sense of accomplishment, self-fulfillment, fun and enjoyment, excitement, sense of belonging, being well respected, and security. From a functional aspect these values are categorized into three and they are interpersonal relationship area, personal factors, and non-personal factors. From an ethnocentric perspective, it could be assumed that a same set of values will not reflect equally between two groups of people from two countries. Though the core values are related, the processing of values can differ based on the cultural identity of an individual.

2013

• (Wikipedia, 2013) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_(personal_and_cultural) Retrieved:2013-12-27.
  • A personal value is absolute or relative and ethical value, the assumption of which can be the basis for ethical action. A value system is a set of consistent values and measures. A principle value is a foundation upon which other values and measures of integrity are based.

    Some values are physiologically determined and are normally considered objective, such as a desire to avoid physical pain or to seek pleasure. Other values are considered subjective, vary across individuals and cultures, and are in many ways aligned with belief and belief systems. Types of values include ethical/moral values, doctrinal/ideological (religious, political) values, social values, and aesthetic values. It is debated whether some values that are not clearly physiologically determined, such as altruism, are intrinsic, and whether some, such as acquisitiveness, should be classified as vices or virtues. Values have been studied in various disciplines: anthropology, behavioral economics, business ethics, corporate governance, moral philosophy, political sciences, social psychology, sociology and theology to name a few.

    Values can be defined as broad preference concerning appropriate courses of action or outcomes. As such, values reflect a person's sense of right and wrong or what "ought" to be. “Equal rights for all", "Excellence deserves admiration", and "People should be treated with respect and dignity" are representative of values. Values tend to influence attitudes and behavior.

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