A free-format inventory of Life and Work Values, designed in Zimbabwe as a wide-spectrum instrument suitable for exploratory investigations in a variety of groups, was used to collect data from a sample of 926 education students in South Africa. Analysis showed that the inventory had high internal consistency across all groups sampled.
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