Balancing Social Responsibility and Personal Autonomy: Adolescents’ Reasoning About Community Service Programs

McNeil, Justin; Helwig, Charles C.

doi:10.1080/00221325.2015.1077189

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“…In addition, witnessing needy people's distress triggers the empathic concerns (Warneken, 2015). Youth-led service activities may provide young people with opportunities to influence their own development (McNeil & Helwig, 2015). Finally, service that incorporates student voices is likely to promote the adoption of a pro-social value orientation (Ramey & Rose-Krasnor, 2011).…”

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Development of Adolescent Moral and Civic Identity Through Community Service: A Qualitative Study in Hong Kong

Min

2017

Journal of Adolescent Research

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This article draws on Marcia's model that defines four statuses of adolescents' identity formation to examine adolescent moral and civic identity formation. Interviews were conducted with 23 students at three Hong Kong senior secondary schools to address the following research question: How does community service help adolescents develop their moral and civic identities? Among the participants, most of them reported attaining moral identity development and just a few participants reported civic identity development; nonetheless, one of them did not report identity development in the moral and civic domains. Furthermore, five core elements of community service programs facilitating the participants' identity formation emerged from the findings, namely, meaningful service activities, diversity, youth voice, reflection, and extended service duration. The influence of these service elements varied across the moral and civic domains of identity. By reporting the findings gained from an East Asian school setting, the article contributes to a fuller understanding of the role of community service in adolescent identity formation.

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Development of Adolescent Moral and Civic Identity Through Community Service: A Qualitative Study in Hong Kong

Min

2017

Journal of Adolescent Research

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Volunteering Trajectories and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Persistent, Emergent, and Former Volunteers and Personal, Moral, and Prudential Reasoning

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French,

Bolic

et al. 2024

Journal of Adolescent Research

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Although trajectories of youth volunteering were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, nevertheless some youth persisted in volunteering, and others emerged as volunteers. To understand volunteering trajectories, the present mixed method study proposed a model adapted from prior literature and examined volunteer trajectories during the pandemic. Youths’ volunteer trajectories were categorized (as persistent, emergent, or former volunteer, or persistent non-volunteer) and their justifications for their volunteer decisions were classified using social domain theory (personal, social, moral, and prudential). A sample of 461 youth ( Mage = 19.26; 68.8% female; 41.6% European or North American) from a large Canadian university completed a retrospective survey on pandemic volunteering and volunteer decisions. Volunteer decisions were coded using conventional and directed qualitative content analysis. Although the pandemic disrupted the volunteering trajectories of former volunteers, overall, more youth persisted or emerged as volunteers during the pandemic, a finding framed in both the trajectory and emergency and disaster literature. Volunteers were more likely to use moral justifications, whereas prudential justifications were more frequent among non-volunteers. The present study offers insight into the impact of the pandemic on youth volunteering and is one of the first studies to find a substantive role for prudential reasoning in youth decision making.

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Balancing Social Responsibility and Personal Autonomy: Adolescents’ Reasoning About Community Service Programs

Cited by 2 publications

References 29 publications

Development of Adolescent Moral and Civic Identity Through Community Service: A Qualitative Study in Hong Kong

Development of Adolescent Moral and Civic Identity Through Community Service: A Qualitative Study in Hong Kong

Volunteering Trajectories and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Persistent, Emergent, and Former Volunteers and Personal, Moral, and Prudential Reasoning

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