Civic Responsibility among Young Generation: A Case Study of Universities in Southern Punjab, Pakistan

Abstract

The objectives of the study was to explore the levels of the civic participation, civic characteristics of the university students and efforts made by the universities to develop a good sense of civic responsibility in the students. Present study was a quantitative descriptive research based on survey questions asked from the students belonged to four out of nine large universities from Southern Punjab. A Stratified random sampling (SRS) technique was used to select a suitable size of sample. After data collection SPSS V.29.0.1 (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) was used to analyse the descriptive statistics using percentage frequencies, mean values, multiple regression analysis and correlation coefficient. Among respondents 70% had an average level of sense of civic responsibility and 30% had low level of sense of civic responsibility in terms of civic participation (Table 1). Results of civic responsibility in terms of civic characteristics explored that 42% of the respondents have high level of civic characteristics, 30% of the respondents have average level of civic responsibility and 28% of the respondents have low level of civic characteristics (Table 2). Results of regression analysis had also predicted that civic characteristics of the students and civic participation both variables have significant impact on student’s sense of civic responsibility (Table 3) and that there is positive correlation between perceptions about civic participation and services provided by the university (Table 4).Overall conclusion of the study was that the students have an average level of civic responsibility and universities should take necessary initiatives to make students responsible citizens.