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Life Goals for Young People Leaving Primary School. Trying to Classify the Value of the Younger Generation

Summary/Abstract: Values as tangible and non-tangible valuables for a man or for a group of people constitute the basic element of social reality, in which a person grows up and is formed as a social being. Currently the subject literature frequently refers to a crisis of values, co-existence of many equivalent, mutually exclusive values, as well as to the permissiveness of values.The article is an attempt at presenting the system of values in eighth-form primary school students. It is about answering the question whether the values are arranged in certain more general models and what sort of models are these? The study was performed with the use of an original online questionnaire (CAWI) completed in an auditorium between 1st October 2018 and 12th January 2019. The examined trial group (array) consisted of 70 185 school students from the area of Poland. Then the respondents were voted-off to the number, which is representative in the scale of the country—8530 students, from among whom the eighth-formers were represented by 1986 respondents.The study results allow to find that the main aims in the lives of the respondents are arranged in a hierarchy of values, determined by such features as gender, the family’s financial situation, degree of religious commitment, size of the place of residence. Besiders, the living goals of the examinees can be reduced to a smaller number of groups that can be called the groups of values. Thus, in the system of values important for the young generation there are ethical, consumerist-material and hedonist values, but also family, socio-metrical, socially desirable, religious and perfectionist-vital values.

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