Valores y política: Análisis del perfil axiológico de los estudiantes universitarios de la ciudad de Buenos Aires (República Argentina)

rokeach (1968) considers values as a key concept in social sciences: main dependent variable in cultural studies on society and personality, and main independent variable in attitudes and social behaviour studies. the author defends values utility to represent different political positions. freedom and equality values would reflect that representation due to the effect of unequal power distribution in society which leads people to perceive that some individuals have more freedom than others and relationships in a hierarchical order. different researches in political psychology reveal values as important factors in political phenomena explanation (e.g., barnea & schwartz, 1998; caprara & zimbardo, 2004; delfino, fernández, & zubieta, 2007). in this line, schwartz (2001) points out that identified dimensions in relevant studies on political values also can be localized in the frame of its theory of human values. caprara and colaborators (2006) analysed the relationship between values, personality traits, and vote in national election in italy 2001 and found that left wing oriented participants show higher punctuations in universalism, benevolence and self-direction values compare with those right wing oriented participants. on the other side, more right oriented subjects show higher punctuations in security, power, achievement, conformity and tradition motives. it was also verify that values explained a major variance percentage than personality traits when predicting passed and future vote, and political option change. with the aim of exploring values profiles in youth people and its variation in terms of ideological positioning and socio-demographical aspects, a descriptive study was carried out -non experimental transversal design- based on a convenience sample of 500 college students from buenos aires city and surroundings. in terms of motivational preferences and coherent with previous studies findings -based on students and general population samples (zubieta et