Students’ Professional Values Perception Inventory - Important Dimensions of Career Orientation

AbstractThe specificity and the dynamics of the social life generate significant changes in the mentality, in the population personality structure and especially in the case of young people. Generally speaking, values accompany human actions, orient them and guide them in the sense of fulfilling the established goals.Considering the values as being important dimensions of the personality, we are interested and we follow, in our study, the way students, future teachers with different specializations express and rank the professional values.The instrument that we will apply is the professional values inventory, an instrument for measuring of values grouped in 15 dimensions: altruism, aesthetic values, intellectual stimulation, professional success, independence, prestige, leadership, economic advantages, occupational safety, environment, relations with superiors, relationships with colleagues, lifestyle, variety, creativity. The instrument is adapted and gauged for our country in 1994.The processing of the research data will consist in obtaining a hierarchy of the average professional values according to the importance given to them by the students.The obtained data show that students’ options regarding the hierarchy of the professional values are different and explicable by the different specificity of the career orientation