Values Reflection
Values Reflection
Nestor Medina University of Phoenix
CJA474/Criminal Justice Policy Analysis
May 5, 2014
Duncan Fraser
Values Reflection
Every individual has a set of personal values that dictates how he or she reacts to situations in life. These values can also define who he or she is as a person. Values are significant and the principle shared by most people in society in regard to what is morally right or wrong. Some examples of values are integrity, loyalty, honesty, respectful, and love. Values can sometimes sway an individual’s actions. Individuals in society will often have a set of values that defines who he or she is, and is the influencing factor on how he or she lives, behaves, speaks, and believes.
My core values are honesty, love, trust, family, accomplishment, respect, and perseverance. My most important value is family, no matter what an individual goes through in life I believe that family should always come first. The second most important value to me is love; a person must first love themselves before others can love him or her. I also believe in honesty because if I am honest with people they will trust me. One cannot have honesty without trust. I set out to accomplish every goal and I know that my perseverance will help me to achieve those goals. I respect myself, others belief’s, and therefore expect others to do the same.
People acquire values by the environment they are born into. Values are built by family, religious beliefs, the education that he or she was brought up in, media, economic status and where the family grew up. The identification process of values begins at about the age of seven to eight years old to about thirteen to fourteen years of age. This is called the modeling stage. According to Whisenand and Ferguson (2009), “We shift into intense modeling: relating to family, friends, and external “heroes” in the world around us. We observe people we would “like to be like” carefully. As a result, our initial close
Nestor Medina University of Phoenix
CJA474/Criminal Justice Policy Analysis
May 5, 2014
Duncan Fraser
Values Reflection
Every individual has a set of personal values that dictates how he or she reacts to situations in life. These values can also define who he or she is as a person. Values are significant and the principle shared by most people in society in regard to what is morally right or wrong. Some examples of values are integrity, loyalty, honesty, respectful, and love. Values can sometimes sway an individual’s actions. Individuals in society will often have a set of values that defines who he or she is, and is the influencing factor on how he or she lives, behaves, speaks, and believes.
My core values are honesty, love, trust, family, accomplishment, respect, and perseverance. My most important value is family, no matter what an individual goes through in life I believe that family should always come first. The second most important value to me is love; a person must first love themselves before others can love him or her. I also believe in honesty because if I am honest with people they will trust me. One cannot have honesty without trust. I set out to accomplish every goal and I know that my perseverance will help me to achieve those goals. I respect myself, others belief’s, and therefore expect others to do the same.
People acquire values by the environment they are born into. Values are built by family, religious beliefs, the education that he or she was brought up in, media, economic status and where the family grew up. The identification process of values begins at about the age of seven to eight years old to about thirteen to fourteen years of age. This is called the modeling stage. According to Whisenand and Ferguson (2009), “We shift into intense modeling: relating to family, friends, and external “heroes” in the world around us. We observe people we would “like to be like” carefully. As a result, our initial close
References: Petryni, M. (2014). The Importance of Human Relations in the Workplace. Small Business Chron. Retrieved from http://smallbusiness.chron.com/importance-human-relations-workplace-23061.html Whisenand, P. M., & Ferguson, R. F. (2009). Managing police organizations (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Retrieved from The University of Phoenix eBook Collection database.