Wartości i style życia młodzieży

Contemporary young people face new challenges of the rapidly changing reality.Th e conditions of social life change substantially, oft en causing transformationsin the sphere of awareness and behavior. Developing the system of values is anextremely crucial issue in the process of educating children and young people andcreating conditions for their development. Young people, oft en lost in the cultureof pleasure, encounter suggestions of new ways of forming rules of behavior, hierarchizingrules and choosing life targets. Developing and forming the right andlasting hierarchy of values is an indispensable factor of a conscious life and makingresponsible decisions, making certain choices and showing particular behaviours.In the article a part of the research concerning the system of values of 280 secondaryschool students has been presented. Th e researches were of a comparable nature.Data from two types of schools, that is, public and private secondary schoolsfrom various sizes of towns of the Podkarpacie voivodeship have been compiled.Th e analysis of the values selected by young people will fulfi ll the life philosophy ofthe analyzed, with reference to these aspects which are the most important for them.