Recieved: 06/10/2024
Accepted: 12/16/2024
Published: 02/12/2025
Keywords: values; volunteering; types of volunteering; motives; students; dynamics of values; S. Schwartz’s concept of values; individual priorities; normative ideals
Pages: 18-28
DOI: 10.11621/npj.2025.0102
Available online: 12.02.2025
Vasileva, I.V., Chumakov, M.V. (2025). Personal Values and Student Volunteering. National Psychological Journal, 20(1) , 18-28. https://doi.org/10.11621/npj.2025.0102
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CopyBackground. Against the background of the transformation of civic consciousness in a period of social instability, the state turns to the activity of citizens, many of whom are ready and eager to be active in order to transform the living space. However, not everyone is prone to this kind of activity. Thus, it is important to identify the values of the individual that contribute to prosocial activity.
Objective. The paper studies the difference in the value sphere (ten basic values according to S. Schwartz) among university students involved in the volunteer movement and not participating in it.
Study Participants.Students of the Tyumen State and Kurgan State Universities studying in the direction of “Psychology”: 172 people (32 boys, 140 girls) from 18 to 39 years old (Mage = 21.25; SD = 3.96).
Methods.Questionnaire of values by S. Schwartz (adapted by V.N. Karandashev). Screening survey: gender, age, presence / absence of experience in volunteering, type of volunteering. The presence and nature of differences were tested using the two-sample Kolmogorov — Smirnov test.
Results. Students participating in volunteering and not participating in it have a similar structure of personal values, both at the level of normative ideals and at the level of individual priorities. At the level of normative ideals, the values of universalism, independence and kindness are the most significant; at the level of individual priorities, the value of security prevails. Statistically significant differences between student volunteers and those who are not involved in volunteer activities consist in the expression of the value of kindness at the level of normative ideals and the value of tradition at the level of individual priorities.
Conclusions. There are differences in the structure of individual preferences and normative ideals of values among students who are involved in the volunteer movement and those who do not participate in it. The main differences are observed in the values of kindness, which are more pronounced among students participating in volunteer activities.
Acknowledgements.Conducting both scientific work and the process of publishing the article was not funded by foundations, commercial, government organizations, or individuals. The authors thank the participants of the study for their indifference to the issues of the volunteer movement.
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Vasileva, I.V., Chumakov, M.V.. Personal Values and Student Volunteering. // National Psychological Journal 2025. 1. Pages18-28. doi: 10.11621/npj.2025.0102
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