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

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.

Understanding Social Responsibility Awareness Among University Students

“…The Cronbach's Alpha coefficient for the scale in this study was calculated as .902. The original questionnaire was designed by García Ramos et al (2016a), and was applied in Colombia, Chile, Mexico, and Spain (García Ramos et al, 2016b;García Ramos et al, 2018c;Fonseca et al, 2019;Severino-González et al, 2019). The scale consists of 18 items.…”