Nilai Polytechnic Student Involvement in Volunteering Activities

The development of volunteering value is one of the aspects in the development of students’ soft skills to produce individuals who care about the reality of their living environment. This quantitative survey study aims to see the tendency of students to venture into the field of volunteering, to see the characteristics of volunteering in students, factors involving themselves and the effects of involvement in volunteering activities. The study was conducted among 270 people from a population of 1820 students online and analyzed descriptively and inferentially. The study found that students are most involved in activities in the field of cleanliness and cheerfulness, students have good volunteering characteristics (MS = 4.19, SD = 0.58), the main factor for students to get involved in volunteering activities is because they want to improve their skills (MS = 4.52; SD = 0.59), the effect of students engaging in volunteering activities is at a very high level with an overall mean score of 4.34 (SD = 0.57), there is a significant difference in the effect of engaging in volunteering activities based on gender where the score of male students (MS = 4.25, SD = 0.61) compared to female students (MS = 4.41, SD = 0.52) with a value of t = −2.398, P = 0.017 < 0.05, students gave high agreement to the suggestions given and submitted additional suggestions and students were also found to be willing and inclined in volunteer activities. Further and periodic research can be done to look in more detail at the volunteering aspect among students to get various inputs which then help many parties in preparing students to develop the value of volunteering and apply it in their lives.