Personal Values
Personal Values
Personal values are just that; personal. Each individual’s personal values are exclusive to that person. Personal values are the beliefs or standards that individuals use to evaluate and define actions and events throughout the multiple domains in their lives (Hyde & Weathington, 2006). Although, people may share similar values, it is how they interrupt those values and apply those values to their own life that makes them unique. These differences in how personal values are interpreted are based on the person and the experiences that make that person a distinctive being. One’s personal values determine how they will react when faced with a situation whether it be at home or at work. Although each person is composed of many different values often a handful of values come to represent the primary core values.
This student’s personal values are accountability, loyalty, and compassion. These three personal values lay at the core of his personal values. This paper will review these three core values in relation to how they came about, who or what influenced these values, what criterion is used when employing or altering these values, and how these values help to influence this student’s professional career.
Core Personal Values
As stated this student’s three personal core values are accountability, loyalty, and compassion. As defined by the Oxford Dictionary Accountability is the ability to answer for responsibilities and conduct. A more personal definition of the term is personal responsibility for ones own actions or holding self-responsible for the choices that are made whether the results are positive or negative. This student feels that along with his parents instilling these values in him that formal schooling played a large part in these being his core personal value. Formal schooling taught him at a young age that he must be responsible for his own actions, if he failed to study for a test or failed to do his homework and performed poorly on
Personal values are just that; personal. Each individual’s personal values are exclusive to that person. Personal values are the beliefs or standards that individuals use to evaluate and define actions and events throughout the multiple domains in their lives (Hyde & Weathington, 2006). Although, people may share similar values, it is how they interrupt those values and apply those values to their own life that makes them unique. These differences in how personal values are interpreted are based on the person and the experiences that make that person a distinctive being. One’s personal values determine how they will react when faced with a situation whether it be at home or at work. Although each person is composed of many different values often a handful of values come to represent the primary core values.
This student’s personal values are accountability, loyalty, and compassion. These three personal values lay at the core of his personal values. This paper will review these three core values in relation to how they came about, who or what influenced these values, what criterion is used when employing or altering these values, and how these values help to influence this student’s professional career.
Core Personal Values
As stated this student’s three personal core values are accountability, loyalty, and compassion. As defined by the Oxford Dictionary Accountability is the ability to answer for responsibilities and conduct. A more personal definition of the term is personal responsibility for ones own actions or holding self-responsible for the choices that are made whether the results are positive or negative. This student feels that along with his parents instilling these values in him that formal schooling played a large part in these being his core personal value. Formal schooling taught him at a young age that he must be responsible for his own actions, if he failed to study for a test or failed to do his homework and performed poorly on
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