Values may also be evaluated through lists of questions (Brown and Brooks, 1991):
- What optional classes did you take in school? Why?
- What sort of people do you prefer to spend time with? Why?
- What types of jobs have you chosen? Why?
- What leisure activities you prefer? Why?
- When you went to a school, high school or university, what were your
preferences? How it worked out? - What criteria you have in mind when choosing a personal car?
- What qualities you like in your friends?
- What criteria you have in mind when buying clothing?
- Do you like to dress and act differently than the others, or look and be like
them? Why? - Which is the most important decision you have ever taken? What guided
you? - What was the worst decision you have taken? Why?
- What was the best decision you have ever taken? Why?
Personal values evaluation exercise
- Recount a touching experience in your life and motivate your choice.
- Describe what you like to do in your spare time. In case of clients with no
spare time: “if you had one hour free on one day, what would you do?” - Name three famous people that are your role models and explain your choice
briefly.
Method evaluation
Advantages:
- values clarification techniques favour self-knowledge;
- allow maximum use of the decision-making good potential, and a smooth
adaptation to the requirements of daily life;