The Effect of Part-time Work on the Work Value of the College Students

Recently, our social environment changes quickly.The phenomenon that college students take part-time job is widespread, and the work value of college students change.The goals of this study is to explore the influence of part-time job on college students` work value, meanwhile other related factors such as personal background and are also controlled in the analysis. This study divides the work value into extrinsic values and intrinsic values two classes which consis of eight faces.

Data is collected by using questionnaire. The subjects of this study are college students in north, middle, and south areas of Taiwan.Totally, there are 1881 effective samples. The findings, resulting from the statistical analysis are as follows: College students of different background have significant differences in taking part-time job; female college students put more emphasis on the inter-relationship between people in the work; college students, who have taken part-time jobs which are technical and autonomous, possess stronger intrinsic work values.