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High School Community Service as a Predictor of Adult Voting and Volunteering

Rutgers University

James Youniss

Catholic University of America

Robert Atkins

Rutgers University

Correspondence: Correspondence may be sent to Daniel Hart, Center for Children and Childhood Studies, Camden, NJ 08102-1405; phone: (856) 225-6438; fax: (856) 225-6742; e-mail: daniel.hart{at}rutgers.edu.

The influences of high school community service participation, extracurricular involvement, and civic knowledge on voting and volunteering in early adulthood were examined using the National Educational Longitudinal Study. The major finding in this study is that both voluntary and school-required community service in high school were strong predictors of adult voting and volunteering. In addition, involvement in high school extracurricular activities was predictive of voting and volunteering. Civic knowledge was related only to voting. The authors consider the findings for their policy relevance and their contributions to theoretical debates.

Key Words: civics • community service • longitudinal • volunteering • voting

American Educational Research Journal, Vol. 44, No. 1, 197-219 (2007)
DOI: 10.3102/0002831206298173


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