From Cal State Fullerton
College students may attend formal church services less but their senses of ethics and spirituality increase in their undergraduate years and that further has a positive effect on their notions of social justice, researchers say, based on their early analysis of data from a survey of more than 14,000 young people on 136 college and university campuses nationwide. They were questioned twice, as freshmen and as juniors. Their changing perceptions of ethics, spirituality and social justice are key not only for a school of social work but also for society as a whole, said the researchers. They're trying to understand how spirituality may affect students' perceptions of and relations to those with whom social workers most often deal; they want to know more about students' religious affiliations and how they affect those perceptions and relations. They have further analysis ahead of them before the publish and present their full work.
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