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Enhancing the continuing willingness of Chinese college students to engage in volunteer services for older adults.
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- Factors influencing college students' willingness to participate in sports-based disability assistance volunteer services.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Psychometric testing of the theory of planned behavior-based self-employment intention scale and its application among Chinese undergraduate nursing students.BMC nursing · 2025Article
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Abstract
Background: The ageing population presents a substantial challenge to conventional care services for older adults in China. College students' voluntary service constitutes an integral component of youth volunteerism, and investigating their continuing willingness to engage in volunteer services to benefit older adults holds immense importance for fostering a stable and enduring framework for China's older adults' care team. Method: Drawing on the extended theory of reasoned action, this study establishes an analytical framework to examine the willingness of Chinese college students to engage in volunteer services for older adults. Using micro-survey data, we employ structural equation modelling and the bootstrap mediation effect test method to empirically investigate the influencing mechanism behind this willingness. Results: (1) Attitude has the strongest influence on the continuing willingness of Chinese college students to engage in volunteer services for older adults, and plays a mediating role between subjective norms and continuing willingness to engage in volunteer services, which reveals the special role of attitude in the continuing engagement of Chinese college students in volunteer services for older adults. (2) Personality trait has a substantial positive impact on Chinese college students' willingness to engage continuously in volunteer service for older adults, and subjective norms and attitudes have a chain mediating effect in this influence relationship. (3) The theoretical model constructed in this study is reasonable, reliable and robust. Conclusion: This study elucidates the potential relationship between attitude, subjective norms, personality traits and the willingness to engage in volunteer services, offering a novel perspective for understanding the continuing willingness of Chinese college students to engage in volunteer services for older adults. Furthermore, it highlights the value of incorporating the extended theory of reasoned action into the policy design of college students' engagement in such services.
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