Volunteering-based student engagement: A model for student well-being in higher education institutions
- Title
- Volunteering-based student engagement: A model for student well-being in higher education institutions
- Creator
- Chennattuserry J.C.; Thomas S.; Jose P.M.
- Description
- Student well-being issues are rising alarmingly, and addressing these well-being concerns takes the predominant focus of higher education institutions, together with competency building. Understanding the importance of student engagement in student well-being, Christ University, Bengaluru, India, adopted a student engagement model based on volunteering. The current paper tries to understand the dynamics between volunteering and student well-being. It explores the relationship between volunteering and personal responsibility, social responsibility, meaning in life, and a helping attitude. It also tries to check whether the relationship between a helping attitude and student well-being is mediated by personal responsibility and social responsibility. Further, it explores whether volunteers and non-volunteers differ in their social responsibility, personal responsibility, and student well-being. A group of 350 students, of which 175 volunteers and 175 non-volunteers, were approached to participate in the study. Post data cleaning procedure, 327 data points qualified for analysis, and it was found that there exists a relationship between volunteering and personal responsibility, social responsibility and helping attitude, and personal responsibility and social responsibility mediated the relationship between helping attitude and student well-being. Results also revealed that volunteers and nonvolunteers differed in their helping attitude, personal responsibility, and student well-being. These findings point towards the fact that the student engagement model based on volunteering has a positive impact on student well-being. A detailed discussion of the application of these findings is provided in the full paper. 2024 Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
- Source
- Models for Social Responsibility Action by Higher Education Institutions, pp. 265-288.
- Date
- 2023-01-01
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
- Subject
- Helping attitude; Higher education institution; Personal responsibility; Social responsibility; Student engagement; Student well-being; Volunteering
- Coverage
- Chennattuserry J.C., Christ University, Bengaluru, India; Thomas S., Christ University, Bengaluru, India; Jose P.M., Christ University, Bengaluru, India
- Rights
- Restricted Access
- Relation
- ISBN: 979-889113251-1; 979-889113097-5
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Book chapter
Collection
Citation
Chennattuserry J.C.; Thomas S.; Jose P.M., “Volunteering-based student engagement: A model for student well-being in higher education institutions,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 24, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/18167.