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Students as Volunteers: Personal Competence, Social Diversity, and Participation in Community Service.

Author:

Robert C. Serow

Publication Date:

1990

Journal:

Urban Education

Journal Issue:

v25 n2 p157-168 Jul 1990

Abstract:

Examines the contemporary community service movement by using as a theoretical framework recent work on personal competence and voluntary prosocial action. Explores the connections between personal competence and helping behavior in college students. Findings indicate that the relative importance of personal aims is above social concerns (ERIC).

Call Number:

200/E/SER/1990

Library Item Type:

Print resource - serial article