Notions of Security as a Component of Students Attitudes towards Money

Today money has acquired both financial essence and psychological significance turning into one of basic factors of human relationships and behavior. Money evokes diverse feelings and emotional states. One of them is a sense of security. The research explores specifics of money attitudes of students with different security notions. The study sample consisted of 160 undergraduate students. The comparison was carried out between groups with terminal and instrumental attitudes to security. The results indicate that selected respondents groups have special attitudes to money that presets value context when perceiving situations and affects a subject's behavior including security provision.