Values of Academic Youth: A Polish-Czech-Slovakian Comparative Study

Abstract

This article is a communication from comparative research conducted in 2023 among pedagogy students of Polish, Czech, and Slovak universities. A questionnaire method was used in the research. The survey covered 314 people, they were students from Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. The study aimed to find out the value system of students of pedagogy. To verify the research questions, statistical analyses were carried out using the IBM SPSS Statistics 25 package. Frequency analyses, Spearman's rho rank correlation analyses, χ2 tests, and Fisher's exact tests were performed using this package. The classic threshold of α = 0.05 was considered as the level of significance. For respondents, values are something that helps them shape their identity, relationships with others, and the way they pursue their goals. As assumed in the formulated thesis, the analysis of the survey results did not reveal significant differences in the understanding of values between the different nationalities.

However, the most interesting fact seems to be that Polish non-believers are more likely to indicate the church as a source of values than believers - in contrast to Czech and Slovak respondents.