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The Effects of Adolescent Volunteer Activities on the Perception of Local Society and Community Spirit mediated by Self-conception
... Those who volunteer in their local communities have stronger bonds with the community, stronger determination to solve problems, and a stronger sense of social responsibility (Lee, 2009;Park, 2010). Moreover, youth volunteering was found to increase a sense of community, promote pro-social orientations such as altruism, cultivate democratic citizenship and improve volunteers' social well-being (Cicognani, Mazzoni, Albanesi, & Zani, 2015;Kim, 2016Kim, , 2016a. ...
This study examines the influence processes of a program that incorporated youth into community emergency teams (CETs), exploring the overall repercussions from a holistic point of view. The study was based on participant observation and in-depth interviews with youth CET members and their parents, and with adult CET organizers and members. Findings show that the program improved the community’s emergency response preparations, strengthened communal empowerment in the settlement, and strengthened the self-efficacy and self-esteem of the participating youth. The positive reinforcements received from both small and large successes, from the adult participants’ feedback and the responses of the surrounding community, elicited strong feelings among youth and adults, which in turn led to insights that changed their mutual perceptions, and contributed to the cognitive-emotional development of the adolescents’ identity.
This article reviews some of the best researched volunteer service programs for adolescents and addresses three major questions: 1) What do existing data tell us about the effectiveness of community volunteer service programs in positively influencing the lives of the participants? 2) What do we know about why such programs work? 3) What are the most promising directions for future research and programming efforts to pursue? The review suggests that diverse, successful volunteer programs for adolescents, along with school-based support, are related to improvements in both the academic and social arenas. Specifically, volunteering relates to reduced rates of course failure, suspension from school, and school dropout, and improvement in reading grades; to a reduction in teen pregnancy; and to improved self-concept and attitudes toward society. The conditions under which the volunteering occurs, such as number of hours and the type of volunteer work, seem in some cases to be important to these outcomes, as does the age of the student volunteer; however, much is yet to be understood about these factors.
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