Does Profession Makes any Difference on Personal Values ?

Abstract

Personal values are the beliefs or the philosophy of an individual, which is one of the major sources of meaningful life. Every individual holds some personal values whether they are conscious about them or not. They could range from very common (such as to be punctual at work or to be loyal with others) to more psychological in nature (like harmony and concern for wellbeing of others). Therefore, it was found worthful to study whether profession makes any difference on personal values. For the purpose Personal Values Questionnaire (PVQ; Sherry & Verma, 1998) was administered on a sample of 140 participants from defense services and private MNC’s (n = 70 each).The results of t-test for independent sample reveals that in comparison to MNC employee, defense personnel found to be high on democratic values, family prestige value, religious values and social values. On the other hand, MNC employees obtained high mean values on health values and power values as compared to defence personal. Whereas, no difference were reported on aesthetic values, economic values, hedonistic values and knowledge values.