Does Participation in Adult Education Increase Volunteering? An Analysis of British Longitudinal Data

Rüber, Ina Elisabeth; Janmaat, Jan Germen

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“…The study results show that the educational status of healthy volunteers affect the intention to improve their performance [19]. The educational level significantly and positively impacts the social interaction and self-perception of health cadres [20]. Government employees Int J Public Health Sci ISSN: 2252-8806  Knowledge, motivation, attitude, job design and health cadre performance: … (Rinayati) 387 engage significantly more in volunteering than their counterparts in the private sector.…”

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confidence: 93%

Knowledge, motivation, attitude, job design and health cadre performance: a cross sectional study

Rinayati

Harsono

Erawati

2023

IJPHS

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In 2020, the maternal mortality rate in Semarang increased to 98.6/100,000 and was ranked in the top 10 highest in Central Java. Until November 2021, there were 111 cases of Infant Mortality Rate (IMR), 195 cases of dengue fever, and 210 cases of malnutrition. The performance of health cadres and the role of the community must be improved. The results of observations in the field, the working cadres are still limited, and the performance of health cadres is considered not optimal. This cross-sectional study aimed to knowing the influential factors on performance of health cadres. The population of this study was all health cadres. The number of research samples was 68 respondents determined through the quota sampling. The source of data used in this study was primary data obtained through direct interviews using structured questionnaires. Data analysis used frequency distribution, bivariate, and multivariate analyses. Most of the health cadres have performed well (73.5%). The attitude of health cadres is the most influential factor on the performance of health cadres in improving health status in their area (p-value=0.001).

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Section: The Characteristics Of Respondentsmentioning

confidence: 93%

Knowledge, motivation, attitude, job design and health cadre performance: a cross sectional study

Rinayati

Harsono

Erawati

2023

IJPHS

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“…All these activities can foster social bonding and extend one's social network. A recent study by Rüber and Janmaat (2021) shows that participation in adult education increases volunteering, irrespective of volume, content and obtained qualifications. The authors argue that the effect may be driven by the social interactions and self-perceptions gained through participation in AET.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…On a social level, individual health-related behaviour is influenced in particular by peers, a marital relationship or community ties (Umberson et al 2010a, p. 142). Community ties can be strengthened, as has been shown for the case of civic or cultural participation, through participation in AET (Rüber and Janmaat 2021;Ruhose et al 2019). Although the literature suggests that increasing social networks have a positive effect on health behaviour, there are also conditions under which contact with other people can have negative effects on one's health behaviour.…”

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confidence: 99%

The effect of adult education on health-related behaviours

Kohl

Martin

2023

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Unhealthy behaviours continue to be pervasive and lead to premature death worldwide. According to previous research, school education appears to be a good predictor of unhealthy behaviours. The influence of adult education and training (AET) on health behaviour, on the other hand, has hardly been studied. Existing studies provide only indicative evidence on AET returns in terms of health-related behaviours, with no study to date examining the German context. Longitudinal data from NEPS SC6 (N = 7089) are used to examine whether participation in adult education affects changes in health-related behaviour positively, i.e., whether participants smoke or drink less and are more frequently active in sports. Hybrid regression models with interaction terms are estimated to test specific theoretical mechanisms. While participation in AET does not show any positive behavioural change in sports activity or alcohol consumption, participants in AET are more likely to smoke following AET participation within the last 12 or between the last 24 and 36 months. Implications are discussed and linked to the existing state of research.

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“…This path (adult learning influences low-level personality traits that then increase likelihood of volunteerism) was generalized to all adult learning and is the path this study modeled. Rüber and Janmaat (2021) used longitudinal data from the United Kingdom to test components of Rüber et al's (2018) model. Their results showed that participation in adult education raised volunteerism by nearly four percent.…”

Section: Civic Participation and Adultmentioning

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The Learning Democracy: The Relationship Between Adult Informal Learning, Lifelong Learning Mindset, and Civic Engagement

Haren Conely,

Cordie

2023

Adult Learning

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Using structural regression analyses, data from the U.S. 2017 Program on International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) background survey were examined to test the effect of informal learning (observed through everyday activities, such as reading the newspaper or using the Internet to find information about issues) on civic engagement (observed through volunteerism, political self-efficacy, and social trust). Results showed a positive relationship between informal learning and civic engagement with ICT-related activities having the strongest effect. This effect was mediated by presence of a lifelong learning mindset (LLM) observed through traits related to learning motivation and persistence. Although a majority of respondents indicated agreement with LLM attitudes and behaviors, they also reported low frequencies of volunteerism and less agreement with political self-efficacy and social trust statements. The need for governments to provide meaningful opportunities for citizens to contribute their knowledge to the community, thus enabling a learning democracy, is discussed in light of these findings.

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Does Participation in Adult Education Increase Volunteering? An Analysis of British Longitudinal Data

Cited by 8 publications

References 47 publications

Knowledge, motivation, attitude, job design and health cadre performance: a cross sectional study

Knowledge, motivation, attitude, job design and health cadre performance: a cross sectional study

The effect of adult education on health-related behaviours

The Learning Democracy: The Relationship Between Adult Informal Learning, Lifelong Learning Mindset, and Civic Engagement

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