Value Orientation among Senor Secondary School Students
Author(s)
Monika Ahlawat* (Assistant Professor, Institute of Educational Technology and Vocational Education, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India) and Avtar Kaur (Alumunus, Rayat College of Education, Ropar, India) *Corresponding author's Email
Citation
Ahlawat, Monika and Kaur, Avtar (2019), “Value Orientation among Senor Secondary School Students”, MERC Global’s International Journal of Management, Vol. 7, Issue 2, pp. 184-189.
Article history
Submitted: January 25, 2019, Revision received: February 25, 2019, Accepted: March 12, 2019
The present study investigates the value orientation among senior secondary school students. A sample of 150 adolescents of school from Nawanshahr district was taken. The study included a very heterogeneous group of terms of socioeconomic status, gender and school level. Mean, S.D. and t-test were computed for statistical analysis. The results indicated that progressive values are the lowest of all values in senior secondary school students and empathy values are the next lowest. Democratic values occupy the highest place in all the group of students on a general basis. Secondly, the senior secondary school students who offered different stream were found to have developed the same value profiles. Their subjects have not significantly affected their value system to give a different shape to their personality.
Keywords
Value orientation, Secondary Schools, Students, Socioeconomic status.
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