What are values? Where do they come from? A developmental perspective (2024)

Handbook of Value: Perspectives from Economics, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology

Tobias Brosch (ed.), David Sander (ed.)

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2015

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9780191807572

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9780198716600

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Klaus Boehnke

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129–152

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    October 2015

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Boer, Diana, and Klaus Boehnke, 'What are values? Where do they come from? A developmental perspective', in Tobias Brosch, and David Sander (eds), Handbook of Value: Perspectives from Economics, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology (Oxford, 2015; online edn, Oxford Academic, 17 Dec. 2015), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198716600.003.0007, accessed 8 June 2024.

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In human development, values fulfill various roles as individual motivational goals. Values form and develop in interaction with close others, while the surrounding environment contributes to variability across cultures and changes across time. This chapter introduces perspectives on how values develop and change. It focuses primarily on personal development but also on cultural value change, because values encapsulate personal and cultural continuity and change. Looking at individual value development first, it introduces central developmental theories and links them to value theories, their functions for development, and their measurement. Furthermore, it discusses two phases of value development: in childhood/adolescence and across the lifespan. The chapter closes with a look at societal values and cultural value change. Construing value development from ontogenetic and phylogenetic developmental perspectives enables an integrated understanding of values as central individual, as well as cultural constructs, which are dynamic, multi-layered and complex rather than static, mono-layered and bald.

Keywords: child development, lifespan development, transmission, functions of values, societal influences

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Developmental Psychology Social Psychology

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