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Values and Life Role Salience and Their Assessment in Career Counselling

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This chapter examines the concepts of values, work values, life roles and role salience in career guidance and counselling. The methodological issues in their measurement are discussed (direct and indirect assessment, ranking and rating of values) and an overview of the main assessment instruments is presented. Finally, the use of values and role salience measures in traditional and postmodern approaches are discussed. An all-round approach, viewing values both as a person and a context variable, and utilising the advantages of both quantitative and qualitative assessments, is recommended.

Keywords

  • Values
  • Work values
  • Life role salience
  • Career assessment

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