How personal values and critical dispositions support digital citizenship development in higher education students
The virtual environment’s expansion and role in young people’s lives accentuate the need for developing transversal competences such as digital citizenship. The process may be supported by personal resources like personal values and critical thinking dispositions. With this study on 536 young studen...
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| author | Gabriela Monica Assante Nicoleta Laura Popa Mariana Momanu |
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| description | The virtual environment’s expansion and role in young people’s lives accentuate the need for developing transversal competences such as digital citizenship. The process may be supported by personal resources like personal values and critical thinking dispositions. With this study on 536 young students’ students aged 18 to 26 (M = 20.85, SD = 1.60), we analysed the relationship between two adjacent personal values, universalism and self-direction, and students’ digital citizenship. Moreover, we examined the role of critical thinking dispositions, namely learning orientation, and cognitive integrity in supporting digital citizenship development. Following structural equation modelling (SEM) analyses, the results show that universalism and learning orientation significantly positively influence digital citizenship, whereas cognitive integrity has a negative effect. Further, personal values positively associate with critical thinking dispositions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0784df93627a4a3dba8a4a508f9c4d762022-12-22T03:49:32ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782022-10-011310.3389/fpsyg.2022.990518990518How personal values and critical dispositions support digital citizenship development in higher education studentsGabriela Monica AssanteNicoleta Laura PopaMariana MomanuThe virtual environment’s expansion and role in young people’s lives accentuate the need for developing transversal competences such as digital citizenship. The process may be supported by personal resources like personal values and critical thinking dispositions. With this study on 536 young students’ students aged 18 to 26 (M = 20.85, SD = 1.60), we analysed the relationship between two adjacent personal values, universalism and self-direction, and students’ digital citizenship. Moreover, we examined the role of critical thinking dispositions, namely learning orientation, and cognitive integrity in supporting digital citizenship development. Following structural equation modelling (SEM) analyses, the results show that universalism and learning orientation significantly positively influence digital citizenship, whereas cognitive integrity has a negative effect. Further, personal values positively associate with critical thinking dispositions.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.990518/fulltransversal competencesstudentsdigital citizenshippersonal valuescritical thinking |
| spellingShingle | Gabriela Monica Assante Nicoleta Laura Popa Mariana Momanu How personal values and critical dispositions support digital citizenship development in higher education students Frontiers in Psychology transversal competences students digital citizenship personal values critical thinking |
| title | How personal values and critical dispositions support digital citizenship development in higher education students |
| title_full | How personal values and critical dispositions support digital citizenship development in higher education students |
| title_fullStr | How personal values and critical dispositions support digital citizenship development in higher education students |
| title_full_unstemmed | How personal values and critical dispositions support digital citizenship development in higher education students |
| title_short | How personal values and critical dispositions support digital citizenship development in higher education students |
| title_sort | how personal values and critical dispositions support digital citizenship development in higher education students |
| topic | transversal competences students digital citizenship personal values critical thinking |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.990518/full |
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