The Relationship between Ethical Values Periorities and Gender in Students of Isfahan University

Values are one of the most critical aspects of personality and social life that determine individual and social behaviors and at the same time, are influenced by these factors. One of these factors can be gender. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between ethical values and gender in students. The statistical population consisted of all of the students at Isfahan University. Sampling was done in a multi-stage randomized manner, and finally, 113 students completed questionnaires. Allport, Vernon, and Lindsey values scale (1951) were used to collect data. Then the data were analyzed using SPSS software by multivariate analysis of variance and ranking of values in men and women. There was a significant difference between two genders in economic and religious values (p < 0.05); so that men in economic values and women in the religious values were significantly higher. Also, the ranking of values in the two groups had similarities and differences. The first and the second student`s priorities were social and theoretical values and political values was forth. In women, economic values and in men, religious values were in the last grade.