Values as Motives: Implications for theory, methods, and practice.

Autor: Pincus JD; Employee Benefit Research Institute, 901 D Street, SW, Suite 802, Washington, DC, 20024 , USA. jdavid.pincus@leadingindicator.com.; Research and Development, Leading Indicator Systems, One Franklin Street, Boston, MA, 02110, USA. jdavid.pincus@leadingindicator.com.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Integrative psychological & behavioral science [Integr Psychol Behav Sci] 2024 Dec; Vol. 58 (4), pp. 1704-1750. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Feb 07.
DOI: 10.1007/s12124-024-09817-z
Abstrakt: The concept of human values is central to the study of culture, ethics, politics, anthropology, sociology, social psychology, environmental studies, health policy, education, management, and human capital. Because it represents the ultimate "why" behind decisions and behaviors, as a concept it plays an outsized role in both theory and practice in each of these fields. Despite the centrality of human values in these domains, the concept lacks theoretical consensus among scholars and practitioners. Like the concepts of subjective well-being, organizational culture, employee engagement, and leadership, the values literature suffers from concept proliferation and cries out for clearly stated definitions that embed the concept within a solid theoretical framework. In this article, we advocate for a fundamental reconsideration of the concept of values, anchoring it within a new psychological theory of human motivation based on first principles. Our primary contribution lies in demonstrating that the operational definitions utilized by academics and practitioners alike can be thought of as attempts to approach concepts of human motivation, specifically, emotional needs, without fully getting there. We review the leading definitions of human values in the literature, concluding that they can be distilled to a fundamental set of human emotional needs, each associated with extensive literatures of their own. We introduce a comprehensive framework of 12 human emotional needs and argue that a comprehensive motivational framework offers significant advantages over current theoretical approaches, which tend to spin off an ever-expanding list of concepts. We consider the impact of embedding values concepts within existing motivational constructs with clear benefits for: (a) theory development, (b) method development, and (c) practical applications, emphasizing the advantages of clear operational definitions.
Competing Interests: Declarations. Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
(© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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