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Work values fluctuate daily, showing structured patterns within individuals. These findings challenge the idea that work values are fixed traits, suggesting more personalized approaches are needed.

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Area of Science:

Psychology
Vocational Psychology

Background:

Work values are often assumed to be stable, trait-like characteristics.
Understanding the dynamic nature of work values is crucial for career development.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the short-term fluctuations and underlying structure of work values.
To examine the consistency of these fluctuations across individuals.

Main Methods:

Seven college students completed the Work Values Inventory daily for 100 days.
Individual scale scores were factor analyzed to identify sources of variability.

Main Results:

Intra-individual variability in work values is coherently structured.
Identified factors like "Stimulation," "Esthetics/Management," and "Work Conditions" showed some cross-participant similarity.
The structure of variability differed across individuals.

Conclusions:

Work values exhibit dynamic, structured intra-individual variability.
Findings question the exclusive treatment of work values as fixed traits.
Idiographic approaches may enhance nomothetic understanding of work values.