20.500.12556/DiRROS-22904 The role of higher education and civic involvement in converting young adults’ social responsibility to prosocial behavior This study investigates the indirect mechanisms relevant to converting young adults’ prosocial attitudes and individual responsibility into their prosocial behavior. Our results are based on a sample of 530 young adults studying at three public regional business schools in South East Europe. They show a signifcant favorable infuence on young adults’ civic and political involvement, mediating the relationship between individual responsibility attitudes and prosocial behavior. However, this would not have been expected based on previous research. Another indirect path between the same variables is modeled using a hypothesized moderated mediation efect. The institutional infuence of higher education proves to be a signifcant mediator of the proposed relationship, moderated by the amount of educational content in the felds of ethics, social and environmental responsibility. At midand-high levels of exposure to relevant educational content, this indirect path signifcantly infuences the developing young adults’ pro-environmental behaviors. The study results are discussed from the viewpoint of peripheral regions with a history of dysfunctional social capital mechanisms. education higher education young adults generation Z civic involvement prosocial behaviour vzgoja in izobraževanje visoko šolstvo visokošolska izobrazba mladi odrasli generacija Z državljansko udejstvovanje prosocialno vedenje družbena odgovornost true false false Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Neznano 2025-07-08 09:59:34 2025-07-08 09:59:34 2025-10-24 03:52:35 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2023 0 0 Nasl. z nasl. zaslona; Opis vira z dne 21. 2. 2023; Spletna objava 13. 2. 2023; Članek št. 2559; str. 1-11 Vol. 13 2023 0000-00-00 NiDoloceno NiDoloceno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2023-01-01 316.6-93:378 2045-2322 10.1038/s41598-023-29562-4 142455811 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-29562-4 Odprti dostop 1 7d4f2622-5bd1-11f0-8080-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=33360 RAZ_Alfirevic_Niksa_2023.pdf RAZ_Alfirevic_Niksa_2023.pdf 1 CCE741C5E9CCBFAB52FC21DBB7EF35A3 f9d829a7d529440e2784828161644e56af0d0b0ea4bdca80d5e1a66acda578e3 91ca31d2-5bd1-11f0-8080-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=33361 Pedagoški inštitut 0 0 0