COMMUNITY SERVICE AND WELL-BEING IN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
CHEW TAI WEN
CHEW TAI WEN
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Past literature on community service has shown that community service produces many
positive effects, however most of the literature were either on seniors or western-focused.
The current paper aims to examine the benefits of community service on university
students in Singapore in three main categories: Gratitude (i.e. dispositional gratitude,
gratitude feelings), Well-being (i.e. life satisfaction, global positive emotions, global
negative emotions, social-economic well-being) and Prosociality (i.e. charitable
donations, empathic concern). It was hypothesized that community service will lead to
higher levels of effect and change on positive variables and lower level of effect and
change on negative variables. We predict that overseas community service will have
greater effects than local community service, which in turn have greater effect on non-
community service. Data was collected through surveys done by 369 National University
of Singapore students, aged 19 to 26. Results shows that community service leads to
positive benefits in dispositional gratitude, gratitude feelings, life satisfaction, positive
emotions, socio-economic well-being and charitable donation. Overseas community
service effects posed significant effects on participants, while local community service
did not. The study supported the prevalence of these variables which can be
considerations for future research on community service
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gratitude, well-being, prosociality, community service
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2020-04-20
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