A Habit of Social Action: Understanding the Factors Associated with Adolescents Who Have Made a Habit of Helping Others

Youth social action—activities such as volunteering, campaigning, and fundraising—has gained traction in the UK and internationally in recent years as governments have supported initiatives to encourage adolescents to develop a 'habit' of social action. However, there is not convincing evi...

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Published inVoluntas (Manchester, England) Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 98 - 114
Main Authors Taylor-Collins, Emma, Harrison, Tom, Thoma, Stephen J., Moller, Francisco
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer Science+Business Media, LLC (Springer) 01.02.2019
Springer US
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Adolescents
Citizenship
Ethics
Fund raising
Habits
Identity
Locus of control
Morality
Motivation
Original Paper
Perceived control
Political Science
Questionnaires
Social action
Social Policy
Social Sciences
Teenagers
Values
Youth
United Kingdom > UK
Habit
Virtue identity
Volunteering
Adolescents
Youth social action
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Summary:Youth social action—activities such as volunteering, campaigning, and fundraising—has gained traction in the UK and internationally in recent years as governments have supported initiatives to encourage adolescents to develop a 'habit' of social action. However, there is not convincing evidence on what a habit of social action is. This study involved a questionnaire with 4518 16-20-year-olds in the UK and finds that moral and civic virtue identity, perceived behavioural control, goal direction, and subjective norms are related to a habit of youth social action. A key contribution of this study is the development and application of a new measure of virtue identity—the Virtue Identity Measure—to which we pay particular attention in this article.
ISSN:0957-8765
1573-7888
DOI:10.1007/s11266-018-00070-8