Students’ Vocational Choices and Voluntary Action: A 12-Nation Study |
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Authors: | Debbie Haski-Leventhal Ram A Cnaan Femida Handy Jeffrey L Brudney Kristen Holmes Lesley Hustinx Chulhee Kang Meenaz Kassam Lucas C P M Meijs Bhagyashree Ranade Naoto Yamauchi Anne Birgitta Yeung Sinisa Zrinscak |
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Institution: | (1) The Paul Baerwald School of Social Work, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, 91905, Israel;(2) University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA;(3) Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, USA;(4) University of Surrey, Guildford, UK;(5) Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;(6) Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea;(7) American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates;(8) Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;(9) Marketing & Market Research Consultants, Pune, India;(10) Osaka University, Osaka, Japan;(11) University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland;(12) University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia |
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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. |
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Keywords: | Students Vocational choice Educational choice Volunteering Voluntary action Cross-cultural research |
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