Social Responsibility among University Students: An Empirical Study of Spanish Samples

Jose Manuel Garcia Ramos, Carmen De La Calle Maldonado, Maria Consuelo Valbuena Martinez and Teresa De Dios Alija

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Abstract: The Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (UFV) has developed an educational project that is unique in Europe which integrates social responsibility as an obligatory subject across all university courses. The goal of this course is to heighten university students' awareness of social commitment and responsibility so that all individuals gain an understanding of the ideas presented and subsequently adopt these values, making them their own and applying them in their future professional life. Our aim is to evaluate the impact of this education on our students. To do this, we used a valid, reliable tool that with a personal questionnaire, (sample size: 757 students) allowed the information to be collected at two different moments in time (pretest and posttest). The results show that the social responsibility module has a significant impact on students with the effect varying depending on the degree being studied.

Keywords: university education; social responsibility; university students; social impact; construct validity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.75115

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