How Does Community Service Promote Prosocial Behavior? Examining the Role of Agency and Ideology Experience

Autor/inn/en	Christoph, Gabriela; Gniewosz, Burkhard; Reinders, Heinz
Titel	How Does Community Service Promote Prosocial Behavior? Examining the Role of Agency and Ideology Experience
Quelle	In: International Journal of Behavioral Development, 38 (2014) 6, S.499-508 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0165-0254
DOI	10.1177/0165025414531465
Schlagwörter	Service Learning; Prosocial Behavior; Adolescents; Longitudinal Studies; Student Empowerment; Student Attitudes; World Views; Foreign Countries; Ideology; Student Development; Adolescent Development; Structural Equation Models; Regression (Statistics); Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Service-Learning; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Studienberechtigung; Schülerverhalten; World view; Weltanschauung; Ausland; Ideologie; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Deutschland
Abstract	This study examines community service effects on adolescents' prosocial behaviors as mediated through experiences made during service. Based on theoretical assumptions by Youniss and Yates, we suggest that personal agency experiences and being confronted with situations that can challenge the own world views (ideology experiences) serve as mediators. The data were collected in a two-wave longitudinal study surveying 2,408 German adolescents aged between 14 and 15 years. Based on "true intraindividual change models," the results support the expected mediation of service effects on prosocial behaviors through agency, but not ideology experiences. The findings suggest that community service affects prosocial behaviors through a behavioral pathway. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10