Values and value system

Pages:471-473
Ruby Gupta (Department of Psychology, Punjabi University, Patiala)

The inculcated values and the value system form an integral part of one’s personality and self. But this concept has stayed underrated from both academic as well as social point of view. This paper is an attempt to throw light upon those aspects of this particular construct that lay the foundation stone in the development, health, character-building, personality, self, attitudes & needs, behavior, adjustment and cognitions of morality of human beings right from the childhood. Also, the role of values and value system cannot be ignored in counseling set-up where many a times, the root of the problem is not clearly visible but most of the times, the answer is found by working on one’s value system.