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College Students' Changes Of Thinking Styles, Personality Traits, And Mental Adjustment After Joining Overseas Service Learning, Miao Ju Tu, Kun Hu Chen, Rong Ji Pan, Miao Ju Chwo, Yu Ling Su, Ruei Siang Shen
College Students' Changes Of Thinking Styles, Personality Traits, And Mental Adjustment After Joining Overseas Service Learning, Miao Ju Tu, Kun Hu Chen, Rong Ji Pan, Miao Ju Chwo, Yu Ling Su, Ruei Siang Shen
Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議
Service learning has become a very popular approach for enhancing whole personal development for students at Taiwan universities. However, there is little attention to the actual changes after joining service learning, especially in overseas service learning. To evaluate the changes of joining overseas service learning, this study compared the scales of thinking styles (including positive, negative thinking styles), personality traits (including hope, resilience, self-esteem), and mental adjustment (life satisfaction, depression) from 49 college students of Fu Jen Catholic University. The results of the study revealed that most of above-mentioned variables had positive and significant changes. In summary, college students joining …
Effects Of The Overseas Service Learning Experience On The College Students' Mental Adjustment, Miao Ju Chwo, Rong Ji Pan, Yu Ling Su, Kun Hu Chen, Miao Ju Tu, Ruei Siang Shen
Effects Of The Overseas Service Learning Experience On The College Students' Mental Adjustment, Miao Ju Chwo, Rong Ji Pan, Yu Ling Su, Kun Hu Chen, Miao Ju Tu, Ruei Siang Shen
Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議
The study examined the effects of the service learning experience on undergraduate students’ mental adjustment in Taiwan. A total of 49 undergraduate students of Fu Jen Catholic University filled out questionnaires on the positive/negative experience of service learning, levels of life satisfaction and depressive levels before and after joining overseas service learning. Hierarchical regression analyses were conducted and the results revealed that the positive experience of service learning positively contributed to life satisfaction in pre-test and post-test of joining overseas service learning. Meanwhile, the results revealed the negative experience of service learning positively contributed to depression in pre-test of joining …