The culture of volunteerism among St. Paul University Manila student leaders

Department/Unit

Student Leadership Involvement, Formation and Empowerment

Document Type

Article

Source Title

Paulinian Compass: The Asia-Pacific Journal on Compassion Studies

Volume

5

Issue

3

First Page

33

Publication Date

2019

Abstract

The paper, resulting from an open-ended survey of student leaders of SPU Manila, describes the culture of volunteerism among student leaders of St. Paul University Manila. In particular, the study looked at the (1) motivations of volunteers that encouraged them to volunteer, (2) kind of volunteer work they are involved in, (3) satisfying experiences in volunteer work, (4) emergent constructs of volunteerism within a Catholic university culture, and (5) recommendations of volunteers towards enhancing the culture of volunteerism in school. The study revealed that student leaders with volunteer engagements from one to six semesters are motivated by an awareness of his or her capacity to help/assist and/or influence others to do the same, a desire to help others and one‘s self, affective gratifications resulting from activities, productive use of free time, and leadership goals. Volunteer work of student leaders includes inand-off campus activities (specifically in other schools, parishes, and hospitals, among others) that reach out to people in need. Experiences before, during, and after volunteer works constitute the satisfactions of volunteers. The emergent constructs of volunteerism surface from notions of ―service‖, ―leadership‖, ―productivity‖, and ―social engagement‖. Future directions in building the culture of volunteerism include the enhancement of material and human capacity-building support structures for student leaders.

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Disciplines

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Keywords

Voluntarism; Service learning

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