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By Erik Michelsen,  Jonathan F. Zaff, Ph.D., and Elizabeth Hair, Ph.D.
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Volunteering Community Service Leadership Attention to the News Civics knowledge Positive attitudes toward others Delinquent behaviors  
Social and Emotional Well-Being (click for overall summary)

  Experimental Research Studies Non-Experimental Research Studies

Participants in the mentoring program of a community service learning program were significantly more likely than youth in the control group to participate in community service

Participants in a community-based service learning program had higher rates of volunteerism than youth in the control group





Participants in a community-based planning project were four times as likely as nonparticipants to have been involved in informal voluntary groups since high school

Being in a program with a school-based service learning curriculum in elementary school may increase voluntary community service

Participants in a service learning program were 20% more likely than nonparticipants to have been involved in community service in the last 6 months (at 1-year follow-up, high school students volunteered marginally significantly more hours to community service than nonparticipants)


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