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Creating Effective Civic Engagement Policy for Adolescents: Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluations of Compulsory Community Service
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Henderson, Ailsa; Pancer, S. Mark; Brown, Steven D. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2014
For high school community service programs to have a positive impact on subsequent civic engagement, students must volunteer in a sustained manner and must evaluate their volunteering experiences positively. Using a survey with 1,293 respondents and 100 semistructured interviews with past participants of the mandatory community service program…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, Citizen Participation, Volunteers
The Importance of Friends: Friendship and Adjustment among 1st-Year University Students
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Buote, Vanessa M.; Pancer, S. Mark; Pratt, Michael W.; Adams, Gerald; Birnie-Lefcovitch, Shelly; Polivy, Janet; Wintre, Maxine Gallander – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2007
In a study of new friendships and adjustment among 1st-year university students, students at six Canadian universities completed questionnaires that assessed the quality of new friendships and adjustment during their first academic year. In-depth, face-to-face interviews about students' new friendships were conducted with a subsample of these…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Adjustment, Friendship, Student Attitudes
Cognitive Complexity of Expectations and Adjustment to University in the First Year.
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Pancer, S. Mark; Hunsberger, Bruce; Pratt, Michael W.; Alisat, Susan – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2000
This longitudinal study examined expectations about university and subsequent adjustment in the first year among 226 students. Results indicated that students with more complex expectations about university tended to adjust better to stressful circumstances than students with simpler expectations. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, College Bound Students, College Freshmen