AFFECTIVE VALUES: CHARACTERISTICS AND EXAMPLES - PSYCHOLOGY - 2024

The affective values are the principles that govern the behavior of people in the realm of feelings and emotions. This type of values ​​seeks to satisfy basic needs for human beings, such as loving and feeling loved.

The manifestations of affection, feelings or emotions allow the human being to obtain pleasure and pleasure, thus satisfying their affective needs. Therefore, affective values ​​derive from the affective dimension of the human being and affect our psychic reactions that respond to liking-not liking.

These values ​​are the principles that allow us to choose some things over others. The discipline that studies affective values ​​is psychology and its study is considered of great importance since most of our reactions to the environment that surrounds us respond to our affective state.

In addition, the decisions we make throughout life in terms of work, marriage and family, are guided by affectivity. Likewise, these types of values ​​compete with other values ​​that contribute to governing human behavior, such as physical, religious, social, economic, moral, aesthetic and intellectual values.

People who achieve a great development of affective values, or who govern their lives giving great importance to them, are called sensitive people.

characteristics

Durable

Some values ​​are more permanent than others, but all are enduring and their transformation is slow. That is why they manifest themselves throughout life.

Integrity

Each value is complete in itself, it is not divisible.

Flexible

Although slowly, values ​​change throughout life to adapt to people's needs and life experiences.

Satisfaction

The fact of guiding the behavior in a coherent way to a scale of affective values ​​generates satisfaction in the person.

Polar

Every value has a positive and a negative meaning; therefore, each value is said to have its counter value. An example is the love-hate polarity.

Hierarchical

Not all values ​​are of equal importance. Some respond to basic needs, such as receiving affection during the first years of life. This need is so urgent that its lack produces individuals with deficiencies in psychic character.

Other values, such as friendship or falling in love, are secondary; This means that we need them, but their deprivation carries less serious consequences.

Transcendent

Affective values ​​transcend the concrete, give meaning and meaning to people's emotional lives.

Dynamic

Affective values ​​are influenced by the dominant mental schemes at the time. This causes them to transform throughout history; then, values ​​such as loyalty can undergo transformations in the social and personal spheres.

Applicable

Values ​​are abstractions, but they are reflected in people's daily lives through practical actions.

Complex

Affective values ​​respond to diverse causes and compete with other types of values; This makes your application subject to complicated judgments, evaluations and decisions.

Examples

The affective values ​​are diverse and respond to different needs of the affective plane of the person. Some of these values ​​are as follows:

Love

Love understood in a broad way (towards people and things) is one of the most important values. Courage induces us to act well with the people we love.

This value is highly related to other affective values ​​such as loyalty and unconditionality, among others, and governs the bonds that we establish in the areas of couples, friends, family, etc.

Friendship

Friendship is the value that drives us to have feelings of affection towards people for the simple fact of sharing some affinity or common characteristic. It responds to the need to feel loved beyond our family circle and our partner.

Gratitude

This value is what allows us to recognize those who have helped us, whether voluntarily or involuntarily.

It is expressed through concrete actions or words of gratitude and is closely linked to values ​​such as loyalty and love, among others.

Joy

Joy is the value that allows us to maintain a positive attitude towards life, even in negative situations. It is associated with optimistic or pessimistic attitudes towards life.

Respect

This value governs our conduct when relating to the attitudes and thoughts of other people, and when defending our own convictions.

Based on respect, relationships with the people around us and with oneself are defined in a responsible and honest way. This value is strongly linked to the value of peace.

Empathy

It is the ability to understand the thoughts and feelings of others. This value gives us the ability to understand other people even if their situation is completely different from ours.

Courtesy

Courtesy is the value that induces us to create good relationships with the people who surround us and like us. Its ultimate function is to satisfy the person's desire to be accepted.

Responsibility

It is the value that induces us to comply with the personal commitments made and with those established with other people. This value seeks personal satisfaction and the durability of established relationships of affection.

Loyalty

Loyalty is closely related to responsibility. It is the value that makes us act in a responsible way before and with the people we love, or with the groups to which we belong.

Trust

It is one of the most important values ​​we have. A large part of the relationships we maintain - not only those that belong to the affective plane, but also to the work or social level - depend on this value.

Confidence is the positive belief that we can get what we want and that others will behave in a certain way.

Patience

Patience is the value that governs our ability to wait and understand weaknesses, both others and our own. This value is present in all contexts of the human being, since it is at the very base of the reflection that guides our behavior.

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