Study of the values of the social workers in Bulgaria
Keywords:
social work, values, PVQ, personal values.
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to study the priority motivation values of the social workers in Bulgaria and the factors influencing them. The study covers 205 social workers, participating voluntarily and anonymously. The Schwartz questionnaire: The Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ) was used, adapted by Karandashev (2004). The factor influences between the most significantly manifested values of the social workers and the parameters age, sex, education, improvement of the qualification, work experience, choice of profession and need for specific knowledge and skills were verified. It has been found out that only the parameter ‘choice of profession’ has an influence on the value of “benevolence”. The results of the study show that the priority values of the social workers coincide with the mission and purpose of the social work and confirm the results of other researchers.
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Benkova, K., Vlaeva, N., Peeva, K., & Raleva, S. (2020). Defining the degree of work attractiveness in the Protected Housing service in Bulgaria. European Journal of Social Work, 1-15. DOI: 10.1080/13691457.2020.1738348
Dominelli, L. (2010). Globalization, contemporary challenges and social work practice. International Social Work, 53 (5), 599-612. DOI: 10.1177/0020872810371201
Festinger, L. (1957). A theory of cognitive dissonance. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press
Fotev, G. (2012). Spheres of values. New Bulgarian University. Sofia, ISBN: 978-954-535-701-5
Fotev, G. (2019). European values. The new constellation. New Bulgarian University. Sofia. ISBN: 9786192330651
Giovannoni, J. M., & Purvine, M. E. (1974). The myth of the social work matriarchy. Official Proceedings 100th Annual Forum of the National Conference on Social Welfare. New York: Columbia University Press, 166-195 link: https://hdl.handle.net/10622/76BB572A-9A67-46CE-A2AE-A55992D868E8
Karandashev, V.N. (2004). Schwartz's methodology for the study of personal values. SPb.: Speech. ISBN 5-9268-0299-7
Kluckhohn, C. (1951). Values and value-orientations in the theory of action: An exploration in definition and classification. In T. Parsons & E. Shils (Eds.), Toward a general theory of action. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674863507, 388-433
Knafo, A., & Sagiv, L. (2004). Values and work environment: Mapping 32 occupations. Eur J Psychol Educ, 19, 255–273. DOI: 10.1007/BF03173223
Levy, C. S. (1973). The value base of social work. Journal of education for social work, 9(1), 34-42
Markus, H., & Kitayama, S. (2003) Culture, Self, and the Reality of the Social, Psychological Inquiry, 14, 3-4, 277-283, DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2003.9682893
McPhail, B. A. (2004). Setting the record straight: social work is not a female-dominated profession. Social work, 49(2), 323–326. DOI: 10.1093/sw/49.2.323
Morris, C. W. (1956). Varieties of human value. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. ISBN-10: 0226538826
National Association of Social Workers (NASW) (2017). Code of ethics of the National Association of Social Workers. Retrieved from https://www.socialworkers.org/About/Ethics/Code-of-Ethics/Code-of-EthicsEnglish
Reid, N.P. and Popple, P.R. eds (1992). The Moral Purposes of Social Work: The Character and Intention of a Profession. Nelson-Hall, First Edition. ISBN-10: 0830412468
Rokeach, M. (1973). The nature of human values. New York: Free Press. ISBN-10: 0029267501
Rompf, E. & Royse, D. (1994). Choice of Social Work as a Career: Possible Influences, Journal of Social Work Education, 30, 2, 163-171, DOI: 10.1080/10437797.1994.10672227
Sagan, R., Sitek, S. & Szajnowska-Wysocka, A. (2020). The impact of globalisation on regional identity: the example of Silesian identity. Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series,48(48), 83-111. DOI: 10.2478/bog-2020-0015
Schwartz, S. H. (2012). An overview of the Schwartz theory of basic values. Online readings in Psychology and Culture, 2(1), 11.
Sela, A., Berger, J., & Kim, J. (2017). How self-control shapes the meaning of choice. Journal of Consumer Research, 44(4), 724-737, DOI: 10.1093/jcr/ucx069
Social Services Act (2019). Prom. State Gazette V. issue 24 of March 22, 2019. Retrieved from: https://www.lex.bg/bg/laws/ldoc/2137191914
Stromberg, A. H. (1988). Women in female-dominated professions. In A. H. Stromberg & S. Harkess (Eds.), Women working, Mountain View, CA: Mayfield. 206–224 link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=bg&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Women+in+female-dominated+professions+Stromberg+1988&btnG=
Tartakovsky, E. (2016). Personal value preferences and burnout of social workers. Journal of Social Work, 16(6), 657–673. DOI: 10.1177/1468017315589872
Tartakovsky, E., & Walsh, S. D. (2018). Value Preferences of Social Workers. Social work, 63(2), 115–124. DOI: 10.1093/sw/swy007
Timms, N. (1983). Social Work Values: An Enquiry. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Vila, L. (2000). The Non-Monetary Benefits of Education. European Journal of Education, 35(1), 21-32. Retrieved July 1, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/1503615
Wilks, T. (2004). The Use of Vignettes in Qualitative Research into Social Work Values. Qualitative Social Work, 3(1), 78–87. DOI: 10.1177/1473325004041133
Published
2021-08-31
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Benkova, K., Georgiev, Y., Raleva, S., Vlaeva, N., & Taneva, T. (2021). Study of the values of the social workers in Bulgaria. Amazonia Investiga, 10(43), 96-104. https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2021.43.07.9
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