Variations in value orientations and work-related values: A study of Navajo and Anglo-American college students

Value orientation, work value, and work orientation profiles are developed from a sample 99 Navajo and 77 Anglo-American rural community college students. Value orientations are measured using the Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck Value Schedule, an instrument administered 40 years ago to rural Navajo and Anglo-American communities. The Inventory of Work Values and the Measures of Work Orientation were developed for specific use in the present study.;Multivariate analysis of variance indicates overall differences in the value orientations, work values, and work orientations of the Navajo and Anglo-American students. Factor analysis and other follow-up tests (multiple t-tests and discriminant analysis) suggest a high degree of cultural distinctiveness and a persistence of traditional values and orientations among the Navajo students sampled. A comparison of Navajo student value orientations to the orientations developed 40 years earlier by Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck of the Rimrock Navajo community, further suggest the continuation of traditional orientations and patterns, although signs of modernization and transition are present.