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How does community service promote prosocial behavior? Examining the role of agency and ideology experience
- Source :
- International journal of behavioral development 38 (2014) 6, S. 499-508
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2014.
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Abstract
- International journal of behavioral development 38 (2014) 6, S. 499-508<br />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.
- Subjects :
- Impact research
Adolescent
Social Psychology
Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen
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Soziales Verhalten
Services
Service-learning
370 Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen
Structural equation modeling
Wirkung
Education
Developmental psychology
Sozialpädagogik
ddc:370
Developmental Neuroscience
Germany
Agency (sociology)
Gemeinde
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Messung
Social behavior
Deutschland
Life-span and Life-course Studies
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Experience
Sense of agency
Mediation (Marxist theory and media studies)
Jugendlicher
Longitudinal analysis
Weltanschauung
Wirkungsforschung
Erfahrung
Längsschnittuntersuchung
Prosocial behavior
Social behaviour
Dienstleistung
Service (economics)
Ideology
370 Education
Longitudinal study
Handlungsforschung
Psychology
Social psychology
World view
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Gemeinde
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14640651 and 01650254
- Volume :
- 38
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Behavioral Development
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f79ce6e542520623ea859e6683bcd598