business undergraduate majors, cognitive moral development, defining issues test-2, maintains norms, personal interest, personal values, post-conventional, schwarts values questionnairc, value types,

This study uses the Schwartz Values Questionnaire and version 2 of the Defining Issues Test to investigate the values, value types (clusters of related values) and level of moral reasoning of a sample of 108 MBA students in a Canadian university. There are no statistically significant differences in the levels of moral reasoning attributed to gender. Male and female MBA students rank 'family security' and 'healthy' as their two most important values. For males, hedonism, achievement and self-direction are the three most important value types, while for females they are benevolence, hedonism and security, respectively. There are statistically significant gender differences for the value types hedonism, achievement, stimulation and power. Overall, however, there are more similarities than differences between the male and the female students. Regression analysis indicates a statistically significant positive association between the postconventional level of moral reasoning as measured by P-scores and the value-type universalism. The findings provide further evidence that value types affect the postconventional level of moral reasoning.

Familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) is mostly an unidentified disease that does not discriminate.• More awareness is required to increase the number of FH patients identified.• Patient empowerment and the patient voice is paramount in raising awareness and getting system change to identify and optimally treat all FH cases.• Patient organisations and healthcare professionals work together to find all FH patients worldwide, the earlier the better.• Networking by and between FH patient organisations is important to share information and learning.

No abstract

No abstract