scholarly journals Impact of political conflict on trajectories of adolescent prosocial behavior: Implications for civic engagement.

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (9) ◽  
pp. 1785-1794 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura K. Taylor ◽  
Christine E. Merrilees ◽  
Rachel Baird ◽  
Marcie C. Goeke-Morey ◽  
Peter Shirlow ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Political Conflict

Student Acceptance of a Civic Engagement Graduation Requirement in an Urban Community College

2018 ◽  
pp. 40-62
Author(s):  
Christopher Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Urban Community ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Graduation Requirement ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Residency Status ◽  
Time Availability ◽  
Urban Community College

Civic engagement is an essential part of a democratic society, though it has recently tended toward adversarial political conflict. Although many college administrators favor encouraging or requiring student civic engagement, little is known about whether students themselves would support this, and how student characteristics are related to acceptance. Past and present civic activities of 2,327 students at a large, very diverse urban community college were surveyed using the newly developed KCC Civic Engagement Scale. Results showed strong agreement that the college had a responsibility to develop civically engaged students, but that the term “civic engagement” is unclear to many. Principal components analysis revealed four distinct factors: general non-political civic engagement, and low-effort, high-effort, and unconventional political activities. Level of student participation in various activities is primarily determined by a student's time availability and secondarily by a complex assortment of personal characteristics, including residency status.

Student Acceptance of a Civic Engagement Graduation Requirement in an Urban Community College

2022 ◽  
pp. 1088-1110
Author(s):  
Christopher Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Urban Community ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Graduation Requirement ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Residency Status ◽  
Time Availability ◽  
Urban Community College

Civic engagement is an essential part of a democratic society, though it has recently tended toward adversarial political conflict. Although many college administrators favor encouraging or requiring student civic engagement, little is known about whether students themselves would support this, and how student characteristics are related to acceptance. Past and present civic activities of 2,327 students at a large, very diverse urban community college were surveyed using the newly developed KCC Civic Engagement Scale. Results showed strong agreement that the college had a responsibility to develop civically engaged students, but that the term “civic engagement” is unclear to many. Principal components analysis revealed four distinct factors: general non-political civic engagement, and low-effort, high-effort, and unconventional political activities. Level of student participation in various activities is primarily determined by a student's time availability and secondarily by a complex assortment of personal characteristics, including residency status.

Games, Ethics and Engagement

2011 ◽  
pp. 291-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharman Siebenthal Adams ◽  
Jeremiah Holden
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Game Design ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Cognitive Learning ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Simulation Games ◽  
Online Simulations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Support Research

This chapter examines ethical ambiguities confronted by the design and play of serious games focused on civic engagement. Our findings derive from our examination of two educational simulation games that focus on contemporary issues related to social and political conflict. We believe game simulations are complex in nature and offer particularly rich environments for cognitive learning. Within the following chapter we examine the relationship between games and learning, specific approaches to game design, and the ability of games to encourage civic engagement. While we found that game participants gained knowledge of curricular content and practiced democratic skills during their experiences with the online simulations, there also occurred unintended consequences. In turn, we believe it is critical to analyze deeper ethical ambiguities related to the consequences of civic-minded game design and gameplay and support research efforts to further recognize and expand upon the development and research of serious games involving civic-minded educational online simulations.

scholarly journals Can War Foster Cooperation?

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michal Bauer ◽  
Christopher Blattman ◽  
Julie Chytilová ◽  
Joseph Henrich ◽  
Edward Miguel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Social Cooperation ◽  
Behavioral Experiments ◽  
Individual Exposure ◽  
The Past ◽  
Persistent Pattern

In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level, including community participation and prosocial behavior. Thus while war has many negative legacies for individuals and societies, it appears to leave a positive legacy in terms of local cooperation and civic engagement. We discuss, synthesize, and reanalyze the emerging body of evidence and weigh alternative explanations. There is some indication that war violence enhances in-group or “parochial” norms and preferences especially, a finding that, if true, suggests that the rising social cohesion we document need not promote broader peace.

scholarly journals Adolescent Civic Engagement and Perceived Political Conflict

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 616-637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura K. Taylor ◽  
Dana Townsend ◽  
Christine E. Merrilees ◽  
Marcie C. Goeke-Morey ◽  
Peter Shirlow ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Adolescent Civic Engagement

The joy of obligation: Human cultural worldviews can enhance the rewards of meeting obligations

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma E. Buchtel
Keyword(s):  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Moral Obligations ◽  
Heritage Culture ◽  
Confucian Heritage Culture ◽  
Cultural Worldviews

Abstract Is it particularly human to feel coerced into fulfilling moral obligations, or is it particularly human to enjoy them? I argue for the importance of taking into account how culture promotes prosocial behavior, discussing how Confucian heritage culture enhances the satisfaction of meeting one's obligations.

In Search of the Prosocial Personality

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anja Wertag ◽  
Denis Bratko
Keyword(s):  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Dark Triad ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. Prosocial behavior is intended to benefit others rather than oneself and is positively linked to personality traits such as Agreeableness and Honesty-Humility, and usually negatively to the Dark Triad traits (i.e., Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy). However, a significant proportion of the research in this area is conducted solely on self-report measures of prosocial behavior. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between prosociality and the basic (i.e., HEXACO) and dark personality traits, comparing their contribution in predicting both self-reported prosociality and prosocial behavior. Results of the hierarchical regression analyses showed that the Dark Triad traits explain prosociality and prosocial behavior above and beyond the HEXACO traits, emphasizing the importance of the Dark Triad in the personality space.

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