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How personal values follow the societal lockdown due to COVID-19: Case of business students in Slovenia.
- Source :
- Frontiers in Psychology; 4/28/2023, p01-13, 13p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- We examined patterns of change and stability in four individual-level higher-order groups of Schwartz personal values among individuals during societal lockdown caused by COVID-19 epidemic. The study involves comparison of personal values of 85 business students during societal lockdown, with their personal values in pre- and post-pandemic periods. Sampled group of individuals includes undergraduate and graduate students from University of Maribor, Faculty of Economics and Business, Maribor, Slovenia. Contrary to previous publications, our results indicate a decrease of mean-level for all four higher-order groups of individuals' values during societal lockdown of COVID-19. In the value hierarchy, self-transcendence values remain first, followed by conservation, openness to change, and self-enhancement values. In the period after the COVID-19, personal values again approached their pre-pandemic levels. Self-transcendence and conservation returned close to baseline levels, while openness to change and self-enhancement values exceeded initial pre-epidemic levels. In the value hierarchy, lead openness to change values, followed by the self-transcendence, self-enhancement, and conservation values. We discuss perceived changes in business students' values due to the COVID-19 pandemic and present their capacities for dealing with potential unfavorable and threatening circumstances in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16641078
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 163440133
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.987715