Мотиви професионалног избора и вредносни приоритети будућих васпитача и учитеља
Career choice motivation and value priorities of future nursery and elementary school teachers

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents a study that aimed to establish the nature of the link between the value orientation of future nursery and elementary school teachers and the motivation for their career choice. Two instruments were used – the Schwartz Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ-21) and the Career Choice Scale. The findings suggest that the motivation for the respondents’ career choice and their value orientation are relatively homogeneous, but also that two groups of students can be distinguished according to dominant motivating factors, and that these two groups also differ in their value priorities. Non-parametric correlation showed that each type of motivation reflected different values – in individuals whose dominant motivation was intrinsic, the values of benevolence, self-direction and achievement were more pronounced, while stronger altruistic motivation correlated with more pronounced values of benevolence and universalism. On the other hand, extrinsic motivation correlated with the values of hedonism and power, which the initial theoretical model locates at the opposite end to the values corresponding to altruistic motivation. The research findings are important for understanding the reasons behind nursery and elementary school teachers’ career choice and the goals they are guided by in their life and work, and are also important for the career guidance process.

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