Students’ Vocational Choices and Voluntary Action: A 12-Nation Study Export

@article{citeulike:3451374, abstract = {Abstract\ \ Previous research on student involvement suggested that business and engineering students manifest lowest rates of voluntary action. Similarly, it was thought that social science students are the most involved in voluntary action, with students of natural sciences and humanities in the middle. However, there were very few studies that empirically compared these assertions. Furthermore, these assertions were not investigated from cross-cultural perspectives. Based on a study of students in 12 countries (N\ =\ 6,570), we found that even when controlling for background variables, social science students are actually less engaged in voluntary action than other students. Engineering students are higher than expected on voluntary action while students of humanities are the most involved in voluntary action. When studying these differences in the 12 selected countries, local cultures and norms form different sets of findings that suggest that there is no universal trend in choice of academic field and voluntary action.}, author = {Haski-Leventhal, Debbie and Cnaan, Ram and Handy, Femida and Brudney, Jeffrey and Holmes, Kristen and Hustinx, Lesley and Kang, Chulhee and Kassam, Meenaz and Meijs, Lucas and Ranade, Bhagyashree and Yamauchi, Naoto and Yeung, Anne and Zrinscak, Sinisa}, citeulike-article-id = {3451374}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11266-008-9052-1}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/c31m110357310288}, day = {29}, doi = {10.1007/s11266-008-9052-1}, journal = {Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations}, keywords = {volunteering\_students, volunteering\_world}, month = {March}, number = {1}, pages = {1--21}, posted-at = {2008-10-26 12:26:13}, priority = {2}, title = {Students' Vocational Choices and Voluntary Action: A 12-Nation Study}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11266-008-9052-1}, volume = {19}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3451374 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3451374 N2 - Abstract  Previous research on student involvement suggested that business and engineering students manifest lowest rates of voluntary action. Similarly, it was thought that social science students are the most involved in voluntary action, with students of natural sciences and humanities in the middle. However, there were very few studies that empirically compared these assertions. Furthermore, these assertions were not investigated from cross-cultural perspectives. Based on a study of students in 12 countries (N = 6,570), we found that even when controlling for background variables, social science students are actually less engaged in voluntary action than other students. Engineering students are higher than expected on voluntary action while students of humanities are the most involved in voluntary action. When studying these differences in the 12 selected countries, local cultures and norms form different sets of findings that suggest that there is no universal trend in choice of academic field and voluntary action. IS - 1 JF - Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations EP - 21 TI - Students’ Vocational Choices and Voluntary Action: A 12-Nation Study VL - 19 SP - 1 KW - volunteering_students KW - volunteering_world AU - Haski-Leventhal, Debbie AU - Cnaan, Ram AU - Handy, Femida AU - Brudney, Jeffrey AU - Holmes, Kristen AU - Hustinx, Lesley AU - Kang, Chulhee AU - Kassam, Meenaz AU - Meijs, Lucas AU - Ranade, Bhagyashree AU - Yamauchi, Naoto AU - Yeung, Anne AU - Zrinscak, Sinisa PY - 2008/03/29/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11266-008-9052-1 ER -