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The impact of college student immersion service learning trips on coping with stress and vocational identity
Psychology
  • Brad A. Mills
  • Richard B. Bersamina
  • Thomas G. Plante, Santa Clara University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2007
Publisher
Community College National Center for Community Engagement
Abstract

This study examined the impact of service learning immersion trips on vocational identity and coping with stress among college students. Fifty-one students (15 males, 36 females) who participated in immersion trips and 76 students (25 males, 51 females) in a non-immersion control group completed a series of questionnaires directly before and immediately after both fall and spring break immersion trips, and during a four-month follow up. Results suggest that, after returning from an immersion trip, students report a greater ability to cope with stress and a somewhat stronger sense of vocational identity relative to students who do not participate in immersion trips.

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Copyright © 2007 by authors. Originally published in The Journal of Civic Commitment.

Citation Information
Mills, Brad A., Richard B. Bersamina, and Thomas G. Plante. "The Impact of College Student Immersion Service Learning Trips on Coping with Stress and Vocational Identity" The Journal for Civic Commitment 9 (2007): 1-8.