scholarly journals Longitudinal Associations between Civic Engagement and Interpersonal Needs among College Students during the 2018 Midterm Elections

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Oosterhoff ◽  
Ryan M. Hill
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Movement Behavior ◽  
Late Adolescent ◽  
Midterm Elections ◽  
Interpersonal Needs ◽  
Personal Wellbeing

Civic engagement is thought to enhance personal wellbeing, yet little research has examined links between civic engagement, burdensomeness, and belongingness during periods of heightened civic action. Late adolescent college students (N=235, Mage=19.43) completed daily assessments of civic engagement (community service, environmentalism, standard political behavior, social movement behavior), belongingness, and burdensomeness for one week during the 2018 US midterm elections. Greater daily community service and environmentalism was associated with higher weekly belongingness and lower weekly burdensomeness. Lower daily belongingness was associated with higher next-day community service. Greater weekly and daily standard political and social movement engagement was associated with greater weekly and daily burdensomeness. Greater weekly and daily social movement engagement was associated with lower weekly and daily belongingness.

scholarly journals Longitudinal Associations between Character Strengths and Civic Action: A Daily Diary Study

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Oosterhoff ◽  
Summer Whillock ◽  
Courtney Sanders ◽  
Ashleigh Poppler
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Character Strengths ◽  
Daily Diary ◽  
Movement Behavior ◽  
Civic Action ◽  
Daily Diary Study ◽  
Study Test ◽  
Longitudinal Associations

Positive youth development (PYD) models propose that character is an important antecedent to civic action, yet few longitudinal studies have examined links between character strengths and civic behavior. Using a daily diary design, this study test longitudinal associations between character and civic behavior during the 2018 US midterm elections. Participants (N=235, Mage=19.43) completed seven daily assessments of three character strengths (purpose, future-mindedness, gratitude) and four civic behaviors (community service, environmentalism, standard political behavior, social movement behavior). There were between-person weekly effects and within-person daily effects for most character strengths, community service, and environmentalism. Higher daily purpose was associated with greater daily standard political and social movement involvement. Greater social movement involvement predicted higher next-day purpose and future-mindedness. Greater community service involvement predicted higher next-day future mindedness. Higher purpose predicted greater next-day standard political and social movement involvement. Findings support PYD models by documenting nuanced associations between character and civic action.

scholarly journals The Impacts of College Students’ Civic Responsibility on Civic Engagement via Online Technology: The Mediations of Civic Learning and Civic Expression

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824402110319
Author(s):  
Pi-Chun Hsu ◽  
I-Hsiung Chang ◽  
Ru-Si Chen
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Civic Responsibility ◽  
Civic Learning ◽  
Online Technology ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
The Relationship

This study focused on college students’ attitudes toward the relationship between online civic responsibility and online civic engagement and its impacts. It also investigated the mediating roles of online civic learning and online civic expression in this relationship. A survey was conducted in Taiwan, testing for indirect effects with mediated variables using a structural equation model. The study tested hypotheses about the mediations of online civic learning and online civic expression on this relationship between online civic responsibility and online civic engagement for college students. The results indicate that the mediators of online civic learning and online civic expression fully mediate the relationship between online civic responsibility and online civic engagement.

scholarly journals Effect of HOBY Leadership Seminar on Self-Reported Psychosocial Outcomes in Adolescents

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 118-133
Author(s):  
Andy Harris ◽  
Troy E. Beckert
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Psychosocial Outcomes ◽  
Youth Leadership ◽  
Positive Development ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Moral Ideal ◽  
Cognitive Autonomy ◽  
Positive Feelings

Civic engagement is important for the positive development of adolescents. As such, many youth development programs promote civic engagement, particularly community service and volunteerism. This report is a program evaluation of a youth leadership seminar that seeks to empower adolescents to engage in community service. Using a pre to post mixed-methods design, we evaluated 114 adolescent participants on several psychosocial outcomes. Findings indicated that participants experienced positive change that was consistent with program goals. Quantitative findings demonstrated self-reported increases in areas of cognitive autonomy, moral ideal and social responsibility. Qualitative findings included the important themes of an increased desire to volunteer, confidence, and positive feelings towards self. Implications of these findings and future directions are also discussed.

Colleague Crowdsourcing: A Method for Fostering National Student Engagement and Large-N Data Collection

2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (04) ◽  
pp. 829-834 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amber E. Boydstun ◽  
Jessica T. Feezell ◽  
Rebecca A. Glazier ◽  
Timothy P. Jurka ◽  
Matthew T. Pietryka
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Presidential Debates ◽  
Teaching Resources ◽  
Time Effects ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Large N ◽  
Subject Pool ◽  
Data Summaries

ABSTRACTScholars often rely on student samples from their own campuses to study political behavior, but some studies require larger and more diverse samples than any single campus can provide. In our case, we wanted to study the real-time effects of presidential debates on individual-level attitudes, and we sought a large sample with diversity across covariates such as ideology and race. To address this challenge, we recruited college students across the country through a process we call “colleague crowdsourcing.” As an incentive for colleagues to encourage their students to participate, we offered teaching resources and next-day data summaries. Crowdsourcing provided data from a larger and more diverse sample than would be possible using a standard, single-campus subject pool. Furthermore, this approach provided classroom resources for faculty and opportunities for active learning. We present colleague crowdsourcing as a possible model for future research and offer suggestions for application in varying contexts.

Critical Pedagogy beyond the Classroom Walls: Community Service-learning and Spanish Heritage Language Education

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-314
Author(s):  
Jennifer Leeman ◽  
Lisa Rabin ◽  
Esperanza Román-Mendoza
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Heritage Language ◽  
Language Education ◽  
After School ◽  
Community Service Learning ◽  
Heritage Language Education

This article describes a critical service-learning initiative in which college students of Spanish taught in an after-school Spanish class for young heritage language (HL) speakers at a local elementary school. We contextualize the program within broad curricular revisions made to the undergraduate Spanish program in recent years, explaining how critical pedagogy and our students’ experiences motivated the design of the program. After describing the program, we analyze reflections from participants that show how the experience helped them take their critical language agency beyond the classroom walls and integrate university, school and community knowledges, as both the college students and the children they taught came to view their cultural and linguistic heritages to be of educational and public importance.

Patterns of Civic and Political Commitment in Early Adolescence

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Loreto Martínez ◽  
Patricio Cumsille ◽  
Ignacio Loyola ◽  
Juan Carlos Castillo
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Early Adolescence ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
Class Model ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Status ◽  
Social Causes

Interest in understanding how civic engagement emerges has been fueled by worries about the decline of youth participation in conventional political activities. Acknowledging the developmental nature of civic engagement, this study analyzes involvement in civic activities during early adolescence. We used latent class analysis to identify patterns of participation in a representative sample of Chilean adolescents. A four-class model was highlighted by two contrasting classes: an involved class, with high probabilities of participation, and an uninvolved class, with low probabilities of participation. A third class— volunteers—mostly participates in organizations involved in community service, religious or social causes. This type of participation conforms to the preservation of the status quo, in contrast to a more political or activist form of participation that challenges it. Classes were partially invariant by gender and socioeconomic status. Females were more prevalent in the involved class, and males in the uninvolved class. Adolescents’ interest in politics, discussion of political issues, citizenship self-efficacy, and school involvement were associated with higher odds of belonging to the involved class.

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