ERIC Number: ED269097
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1986-Apr
Pages: 24
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Instrumental and Terminal Life Values of Part-Time and Full-Time Community College Faculty in Selected Teaching Assignments.
Bohan, John F.; Hales, Loyde W.
A study was conducted to investigate the instrumental (e.g., Ambitious, Broadminded, Capable, Imaginative, Intellectual, Loving, and Responsibile) and terminal (e.g., A Comfortable Life, A Sense of Accomplishment, Equality, Health, National Security, Mature Love, and Salvation) life values of community college faculty in Oregon using the Rokeach Value Survey. A stratified (by full-/part-time teaching status and teaching assignment) proportional (by college) random sample of 984 instructors was surveyed. Study findings, based on a 51% response rate, included the following: (1) with regard to terminal values, faculty placed greater value on Health, Self-respect, Family Security, and Freedom, and less value on Salvation, Pleasure, National Security, and Social Recognition; (2) with respect to instrumental values, faculty placed greater value on Honest, Reliable, Capable, and Loving, and less value on Self-controlled, Polite, Clean, and Obedient; (3) English composition instructors placed greater value on A World of Beauty than did auto/industrial mechanic, secretarial science, and health occupations instructors; and (4) part-time social science instructors placed grater value on Courageous than did part-time health occupations instructors; and (5) males placed greater value on A Comfortable Life and An Exciting Life while females placed greater value on Self-respect and True Friendship. Based on study findings, it was concluded that community college instructors differ in life values and that these differences are related to teaching assignment and, to a lesser extent, the sex and faculty status of the instructor. (EJV)
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Oregon
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