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The Work Importance Study: Recent Changes of Values in Croatia

The paper analyses the values change in Croatia, a country which has undergone major political, social and economic changes since 1990. The instrument used was the Work Importance (WIS) Values Scale, a multiscale, Likert-type instrument providing for the assessments of 19 values. In November 1993, the Values Scale was administered to 446 secondary-school students in Zagreb. These data are compared with the 1983 data for 949 secondary-school students from Croatia. In spring 1994, the Values Scale was administered to 298 university students from various departments. These data are compared with the 1983 data for 348 university students of similar departmental composition. The 1983-1993/4 comparison showed that two groups of values changed significantly in both groups of students: the utilitarian values and the indi-vidualistic values increased in importance. An attempt has been made to inter-pret the changes in the light of the present socioeconomic situation in Croatia. The implications for the general problem of durability of psychosocial phenomena are also discussed.

work importance; values; value changes; socio-economic transition

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