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Associations between Civic Engagement and Community College Completion in a Nationally Representative Sample of Young Adults.
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Community college journal of research and practice
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2020-02-11
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45
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7
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479
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497
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Educational attainment is associated with voting and political trust, but less is known about whether voting and political trust are associated with subsequently higher educational attainment. In a sample of voting-age two-year college students in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent and Adult Health (=1212), this study identified three markers of civic engagement in 2001 associated with greater attainment of certificates, associates degrees, and bachelor's degrees in 2008: voting, trusting the federal government, and affiliating with a political party. To minimize confounding, we used multivariate regression after exact and nearest-neighbor Mahalanobis matching within propensity score calipers on pre-college parent and adolescent socioeconomic status, demographics, educational expectations, health status, and parent civic participation. Voting in the 2000 presidential election was associated with greater likelihood of attaining a BA, or above; trusting the federal government was associated with greater likelihood of earning a certificate, associate's degree, or BA or above; and affiliating with a political party predicted greater likelihood of earning an associate's degree or BA, or above. These results suggest that two-year colleges that encourage voter registration and political activities may increase their students' engagement and educational attainment.
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Rosenbaum JE. Associations between Civic Engagement and Community College Completion in a Nationally Representative Sample of Young Adults. Community Coll J Res Pract. 2021;45(7):479-497. doi: 10.1080/10668926.2020.1724574. Epub 2020 Feb 11. PMID: 34121832; PMCID: PMC8191281.