Predicting Civic Responsibility From Cultural-Related Diversity Engagement and Peer Civic Talk Among Final Year Undergraduates

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Abstract

The influence of diversity engagement and peer civic talk on civic responsibility development among final year undergraduates are simultaneously considered in the present analysis. Students from three public Malaysian universities voluntarily participated in a self-administered survey. Results of the path analysis revealed that positive diversity engagement experience and peer civic talk independently have direct influence on civic responsibility development. However, there was no interaction effect between the two predictors. Positive diversity engagement experience was, in turn, affected by amount of engagement in curriculum, co-curriculum, and interaction diversity.

Keywords: diversity engagement; interethnic; peer civic talk; civic responsibility; student outcomes

Authors

• Ezhar Tamam, U of Putra Malaysia

• Moniza Waheed, Universiti Putra Malaysia

• Jusang Bolong, U Putra Malaysia

• Hanina Halimatusaadiah Hamsan, U Putra Malaysia