Community Service and Undergraduates’ Social Capital Development

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of community service participation on undergraduates’ social capital development, including whether any potential effects are conditional by students’ race/ethnicity, parents’ or guardians’ education, and social class. I used a propensity score an...

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Main Author: Krista M. Soria
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Michigan Publishing 2023-12-01
Series:Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning
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Online Access:https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/mjcsl/article/id/3643/
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description The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of community service participation on undergraduates’ social capital development, including whether any potential effects are conditional by students’ race/ethnicity, parents’ or guardians’ education, and social class. I used a propensity score analysis on a multi-institutional sample of students enrolled at 69 colleges and universities in spring 2021 to construct matched pairs of students who did and did not participate in community service (n = 8,964). The results of ordinary least squares regressions suggest that community service has significant and positive effects on students’ social capital development; however, while the results were uniform for students based upon their parents’ or guardians’ education and social class, the results were not uniform based upon students’ race/ethnicity. 
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spelling doaj-art-7de917fb5ecc408fbb554227dc0f19532025-08-20T02:48:38ZengMichigan PublishingMichigan Journal of Community Service Learning1944-02192023-12-0129210.3998/mjcsl.3643Community Service and Undergraduates’ Social Capital DevelopmentKrista M. Soria0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2679-6700Leadership and Counseling, University of IdahoThe purpose of this study was to examine the effects of community service participation on undergraduates’ social capital development, including whether any potential effects are conditional by students’ race/ethnicity, parents’ or guardians’ education, and social class. I used a propensity score analysis on a multi-institutional sample of students enrolled at 69 colleges and universities in spring 2021 to construct matched pairs of students who did and did not participate in community service (n = 8,964). The results of ordinary least squares regressions suggest that community service has significant and positive effects on students’ social capital development; however, while the results were uniform for students based upon their parents’ or guardians’ education and social class, the results were not uniform based upon students’ race/ethnicity. https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/mjcsl/article/id/3643/community serviceundergraduatessocial capitalpropensity score matching
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Community Service and Undergraduates’ Social Capital Development
Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning
community service
undergraduates
social capital
propensity score matching
title Community Service and Undergraduates’ Social Capital Development
title_full Community Service and Undergraduates’ Social Capital Development
title_fullStr Community Service and Undergraduates’ Social Capital Development
title_full_unstemmed Community Service and Undergraduates’ Social Capital Development
title_short Community Service and Undergraduates’ Social Capital Development
title_sort community service and undergraduates social capital development
topic community service
undergraduates
social capital
propensity score matching
url https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/mjcsl/article/id/3643/
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