Impact of service-learning interventions on civic values in the COVID-19 era

Abstract

The COVID-19 outbreak has brought about challenges to all fields, civic values included. The service-learning (SL) disciplines can offer a useful tool in this scenario, where human rights are most vulnerable. Given the need to face current challenges in university education, this study aimed to propose a pre–post analysis of an SL intervention for the Spanish University population during the COVID-19 outbreak. Ninety-two Spanish undergraduate psychology students participated in the study. The Values and Civic Attitudes (VAL-U) scale was employed for the pre–post assessment. The analyses were developed through Statistical Package for the Social Sciences 22 and Amos 18.0 modules. The results have shown an effect on civic values after an intervention. Therefore, the VAL-U scale might be considered a valuable tool for assessing resilience in Spanish-speaking university students’ SL in the post-COVID-19 era.

Keywords: Attitude, civic, COVID-19, pre–post, service-learning, values;