Re: Research studies?

Christina,

Below are some studies that relate to your topic. You can find more
information by checking out the Learn & Serve America National
Service-Learning Clearinghosue at:
http://www.umn.edu/~serve

Hope this helps!   Ann

1. UNDERSTANDING COLLEGE AGE VOLUNTEERS' BEHAVIOR  (TUTORING, MOTIVATION)
ROSENBAUM, VICTORIA MEKOSH
Adviser: JAMES R. MCINTOSH
1997
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
172 Pages

This study explores common characteristics of volunteers, their motivation,
and common rewards for volunteering. For five semesters, students who opted
to volunteer for a sociology class rather than take a test were studied.

Results suggest that significantly more females than males volunteered, and
that the volunteers had a higher mean GPA than nonvolunteers. Motives for
volunteering and the needs satisfied by the activity differ among
individuals. College age volunteers were motivated significantly by
self-satisfaction needs and intrinsic rewards; some students volunteered to
fulfill practical needs, such to avoid an exam, yet others volunteers cited
altruistic reasons for joining. Successful volunteers considered themselves
more religious and had a higher mean score on the liveliness factor on the
personality instrument than students who did not complete the volunteer.
(available through UMI http://www.umi.com)

2. Differences among Community Service Volunteers, Extracurricular
Volunteers among Community Service Volunteers, Extracurricular Volunteers,
and Nonvolunteers on the College Campus. Journal of College Student
Development, v32 n6 p534-40 Nov 1991 
(Check with your school library)

Abstract:
Sought to determine whether student service volunteers (n=45) differ from
other students (n=136) who are involved in extracurricular activities not
of a service nature, and from those students (n=104) who are not involved
at all. Students involved in volunteer community service activities
displayed different demographic characteristics and interpersonal values
than did other students (ERIC). 
(Check with your school library)

3. Independent Sector Examines Volunteerism. Youth Policy, v12 n7 p26-28
Oct/Nov 1990
(Check with your school library)

4. Students as Volunteers: Personal Competence, Social Diversity, and
Participation in Community Service. Urban Education, 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). 
(Check with your school library)

5. Volunteering and Values: an Analysis of Students' Participation in
Community Service. Journal of Research and Development in Education, v23 n4
p198-203 Sum 1990 
(Check with your school library)

6. Youth Views on Volunteering and Service Learning from the Chicago Area
Journal of Volunteer Administration, p34-41 Sum 1985 
(Check with your school library)

At 07:15 PM 6/9/99 -0400, you wrote:
>   Hello,
>
>I am a graduate student at Virginia Tech. I  am in the process of 
>beginning my master's thesis.
>
>My study is going  to compare the levels of civic responsibility in 
>students enrolled in  service learning courses to students involved in 
>extracurricular volunteer  activities. Also, I am going to do a 
>comparison between those with previous  service experience and those who 
>are in leadership roles within each  group.
>
>Finding articles on developmental outcomes for students involved  in 
>service learning courses has been fairly easy. However, I am having  
>trouble finding research studies on college-age students that discuss  
>the outcomes of extracurricular volunteer activities.
>
>Please let me  know if there is a body of literature, book, journal, 
>website, or person I  could contact to gain more information regarding 
>the outcomes of student  involvement in extracurricular volunteer 
>activity.
>
>I thank you in  advance for your time and consideration.
>
>Christina Roemer
>croemer@vt.edu 
Ann Treacy, Librarian	
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