University Students' Value Priorities and Emotional Empathy

Myyry, Liisa; Helkama, Klaus

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“…Our second respondent group, undergraduate students, has formed the subject pool for many of the largest analyses of values across cultures (e.g., Schwartz & Bardi, 2001), and there is now extensive data on the values of Finnish undergraduates using Schwartz's (1992) value circumplex (Myyry & Helkama, 2001). These previous data, therefore, provide us with important baseline information for the analysis of value change following the terrorist attacks, as well as a second set of comparative data for the testing of our research hypotheses.…”

Section: Research Design and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Values Following a Major Terrorist Incident: Finnish Adolescent and Student Values Before and After September 11, 2001

Verkasalo

Goodwin

Bezmenova

2006

J Applied Social Pyschol

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The horrific terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, left an indelible mark on perceptions of security and threat across the world. This paper uses Schwartz's (1992) value circumplex model to examine value change across matched high school and university student samples in Finland, questioned before and after the World Trade Center (WTC) and associated attacks. In Study 1 (N 5 419), security values of adolescents were higher the day following the WTC attacks than before, but fell back toward pre-attack levels in the subsequent two samples. In contrast, levels of stimulation were lower following the terrorist incidents. In Study 2 (N 5 222), security levels of students were also higher following the WTC attacks, but again were closer to pre-attack levels in a subsequent cohort.The study of values has reemerged as a major topic for social psychological investigation in the past decade, with value systems seen as an important superordinate cognitive structure with considerable implications for individual behavior (Rohan, 2000;Schwartz & Bilsky, 1990). A variety of ecological life circumstancesFincluding political structure, historical experiences, and even climatic conditionsFhas been seen as central to the formation of value priorities (Hofstede, 2001;Schwartz, Bardi, & Bianchi, 2000), with adaptation and change in value priorities taking place through both the reinforcement contingencies offered by life circumstances and the individual's desire to fulfill outstanding deficit needs (Maslow, 1970;Schwartz & Bardi, 1997 Value change is usually seen as taking place over a relatively long time period, typically decades (De Vos, 1997;Hofstede, 2001), with value stability reinforced by occupational class structures that maintain value consistency across generations (Kohn, Naoi, Schoenbach, Schooler, & Slomczynski, 1990;Morgan, Alwin, & Griffin, 1979). Indeed, even when social and political structures undergo radical restructuring, as has been the case over the last decade in Central and Eastern Europe, there has been little evidence of significant value change (Schwartz et al., 2000).However, what happens to values in the short term, following a major traumatic and public event? The systematic study of the consequences of collective trauma following political violence is a relatively new topic of study (Ladd & Cairns, 1996;Raviv, Sadeh, Raviv, Silberstein, & Diver, 2000). Traumatic life events can challenge an individual's assumptive world, undermining implicit but fundamental beliefs and values (Janoff-Bulman, 1989). Clinical studies following terrorist incidents suggest a greater concern for family and personal safety following the witnessing of a terrorist incident (e.g., Applewhite & Dickins, 1997).Raviv and colleagues (Raviv, Raviv, Sadeh, & Silberstein, 1998;Raviv et al., 2000) studied school students' reactions to the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, both immediately after the murder and 5 months later, as well as responses to a series of terrorist attacks in Israel. Their find...

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Section: Research Design and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Values Following a Major Terrorist Incident: Finnish Adolescent and Student Values Before and After September 11, 2001

Verkasalo

Goodwin

Bezmenova

2006

J Applied Social Pyschol

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“…In a Finnish sample, for example, out of 12 value 571 Does the Individualist Consume More? types, researchers found that business students gave more importance to the values of power and achievement, social science students gave more importance to universalism, whereas technology students found security values more important (Myyry and Helkama, 2001). Even these observed differences in values were rendered difficult to interpret because of a gender interaction with student type.…”

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confidence: 94%

Does the Individualist Consume More? The Interplay of Ethics and Beliefs that Governs Consumerism Across Cultures

2009

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“…For example, in a Canadian study, Bradshaw, Murray, and Wolpin (1996) found that with fewer funding sources available, women' s organizations were highly dependent on government grants, and such dependence makes them more vulnerable in times of governmental cutbacks. This is exacerbated by the fact that organizations run by women are not perceived to be prestigious targets for donors (Bradshaw, Murray, and Wolpin, 1996) as they are more likely to focus on the marginalized and disadvantaged members of society (Stewart and Taylor, 1997;Yasmin, 1997), champion social issues, and make benevolence a priority (Myyry and Helkama, 2001;Riordan, 2000;Smith and Schwartz, 1997;Women' s Communication Centre, 1996). As a result, corporations are not usually generous in funding women' s organizations, as they are more interested in supporting causes related to health, education, and culture (Canadian Centre for Philanthropy, 2003;Useem, 1987).…”

Section: Gender Effectsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Diversifying revenue sources in Canada: Are women's voluntary organizations different?

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Meinhard

2005

Nonprofit Management Leadership

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University Students' Value Priorities and Emotional Empathy

Cited by 106 publications

References 18 publications

Values Following a Major Terrorist Incident: Finnish Adolescent and Student Values Before and After September 11, 2001

Values Following a Major Terrorist Incident: Finnish Adolescent and Student Values Before and After September 11, 2001

Does the Individualist Consume More? The Interplay of Ethics and Beliefs that Governs Consumerism Across Cultures

Diversifying revenue sources in Canada: Are women's voluntary organizations different?

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