Interrelations Between Individual Values and Attitudes Toward Job Performance

Student: Gasparyan Arevik

Educational Programme: Psychology (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2016

This research is made up to discover the interrelation between personal values and attitude towards work performance. In this project will be used three methods: Schwartz S. H. methods of basic individual values, method for measuring work orientations by Amy Wrzesniewski et. al., and James Crumbaugh and Leonard Maholic methods to measure the purpose in life, which is adapted by D. A. Leontyev. First two questionnaires are supposed to test the hypotheses, and the last one is for explaining the results. Only one of the three hypotheses about the relationship of certain values with the attitude to work was confirmed: about the impact of the value of "achievement" on the attitude to work as an opportunity to build a career.

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