Values And Behavior: Taking A Cross Cultural Perspective
by Sonia Roccas /
2017 / English / PDF
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What are values? How are they different from attitudes, traits,
and specific goals? How do our values influence our behavior, and
vice versa? How does our culture and environment impact the
relationship between values and behavior? These questions and
more are rigorously examined by prominent and emerging scholars
in this significant volume
What are values? How are they different from attitudes, traits,
and specific goals? How do our values influence our behavior, and
vice versa? How does our culture and environment impact the
relationship between values and behavior? These questions and
more are rigorously examined by prominent and emerging scholars
in this significant volumeValues and Behavior: Taking A
Cross Cultural Perspective.
Values and Behavior: Taking A
Cross Cultural Perspective.
Personal values are cognitive representations of abstract,
desirable motivational goals that guide the way individuals
select actions, evaluate people and events, and explain their
actions and evaluations. The unique features of values have
implications for their impact on behavior. People are highly
satisfied with their values and perceive them as close to their
ideal selves. At the same time, however, daily interpersonal
interaction reveals that individuals hold different, sometimes
opposing, value profiles. These individual differences are even
more apparent when individuals from different cultures interact.
Personal values are cognitive representations of abstract,
desirable motivational goals that guide the way individuals
select actions, evaluate people and events, and explain their
actions and evaluations. The unique features of values have
implications for their impact on behavior. People are highly
satisfied with their values and perceive them as close to their
ideal selves. At the same time, however, daily interpersonal
interaction reveals that individuals hold different, sometimes
opposing, value profiles. These individual differences are even
more apparent when individuals from different cultures interact.
The collected chapters address the links between values and
behavior from a cultural perspective. They review studies
conducted in various cultures and discuss culture as a moderator
of the relationships between values and behavior. Structurally,
part I of the volume discusses what values are and how they
should be measure; part II then examines the contents of the
relationships between values and behavior in different
life-domains, including prosocial behavior, aggression, behavior
in organizations and relationships formation. Part III
explores some of the moderating mechanisms that relate values to
behavior. Taken together, these chapters review and synthesize
over twenty years of research on values and behavior, and propose
new insights that have important implications for both research
and for practice.
The collected chapters address the links between values and
behavior from a cultural perspective. They review studies
conducted in various cultures and discuss culture as a moderator
of the relationships between values and behavior. Structurally,
part I of the volume discusses what values are and how they
should be measure; part II then examines the contents of the
relationships between values and behavior in different
life-domains, including prosocial behavior, aggression, behavior
in organizations and relationships formation. Part III
explores some of the moderating mechanisms that relate values to
behavior. Taken together, these chapters review and synthesize
over twenty years of research on values and behavior, and propose
new insights that have important implications for both research
and for practice.
