Civic-mindedness and discipline selection: do civically-minded students cluster within disciplines?

Figures & data

Table 1. Summary Statistics of Survey Respondents.

	Count	Pct.
Behavioural and Educational Sciences	100	6.61
Economics and Business Administration	347	22.92
Humanities	121	7.99
Life Sciences, Medicine, and Health	385	25.43
Law and Public Administration	214	14.13
Social Sciences	76	5.02
Science and Technology	230	15.19
Interdisciplinary Sciences	41	2.71
N	1514	100.0

Note. Because of the small number of students enrolled in Interdisciplinary Science (e.g. Technology, business, and innovation), these responses are included in estimations but are not reported in tables of estimates.

Figure 1. Distributions of Personality Domains Across Disciplines.

Figure 2. Distribution of Service Motivation and Civic Efficacy Across Disciplines.

Table 2. Summary Statistics of Latent Constructs by Discipline.

	Openness		Conscientiousness		Extroversion		Agreeableness		Neuroticism		Service Mot.		Civic Efficacy
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean (se)	SD	Mean (se)	SD
Behavioural and Edu. Sciences	−0.12	0.38	0.00	0.34	0.07	0.71	0.04	0.34	0.01	0.59	0.06	0.32	0.04	0.35
	(0.04)		(0.03)		(0.07)		(0.03)		(0.06)		(0.03)		(0.04)
Econ. and Business Admin.	−0.05	0.41	0.02	0.36	0.10	0.70	−0.05	0.38	−0.10	0.57	−0.15	0.40	−0.06	0.44
	(0.02)		(0.02)		(0.04)		(0.02)		(0.03)		(0.02)		(0.02)
Humanities	0.20	0.40	−0.03	0.40	−0.15	0.80	0.03	0.36	0.16	0.67	0.16	0.40	0.06	0.42
	(0.04)		(0.04)		(0.07)		(0.03)		(0.06)		(0.04)		(0.04)
Life Sci., Med., and Health	−0.02	0.39	0.02	0.33	−0.05	0.66	0.05	0.34	0.07	0.60	0.06	0.34	0.02	0.38
	(0.02)		(0.02)		(0.03)		(0.02)		(0.03)		(0.02)		(0.02)
Law and Public Admin.	0.01	0.37	0.01	0.32	0.19	0.68	0.02	0.36	−0.02	0.63	0.04	0.36	0.09	0.36
	(0.02)		(0.02)		(0.05)		(0.02)		(0.04)		(0.02)		(0.02)
Soc. Science	0.02	0.37	−0.08	0.34	−0.04	0.62	0.00	0.31	0.06	0.67	0.05	0.39	0.02	0.40
	(0.04)		(0.04)		(0.07)		(0.04)		(0.08)		(0.04)		(0.05)
Sci. and Tech.	0.07	0.40	−0.03	0.39	−0.16	0.78	−0.06	0.37	−0.04	0.65	−0.04	0.40	−0.07	0.44
	(0.03)		(0.03)		(0.05)		(0.02)		(0.04)		(0.03)		(0.03)
Total	0.00	0.40	0.00	0.35	0.00	0.71	0.00	0.36	0.00	0.61	0.00	0.39	0.00	0.41
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Table 3. Estimates for Multinomial Logistic Models of Discipline Selection.

		(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)
		FFM	SM	CE	SM+CE	FFM+SM+CE
Behavioural and educational sciences	Open.	−1.038***				−1.332***
		(.322)				(.355)
	Conscience.	-.202				-.193
		(.397)				(.4)
	Extraversion	.544***				.569**
		(.21)				(.264)
	Agree.	-.007				-.539
		(.387)				(.461)
	Neur.	-.142				-.256
		(.203)				(.254)
	SM		.004		-.37	.857
			(.267)		(.509)	(.804)
	CE			.119	.403	-.038
				(.249)	(.469)	(.91)
	constant	−1.42***	−1.348***	−1.351***	−1.335***	−1.465***
		(.121)	(.114)	(.113)	(.114)	(.126)
Economics and business administration	Open	-.497**				-.121
		(.23)				(.253)
	Conscience	.356				.085
		(.252)				(.259)
	Extraversion	.502***				.188
		(.13)				(.151)
	Agree	−1.498***				-.115
		(.26)				(.34)
	Neur.	-.586***				.084
		(.138)				(.176)
	SM		−1.491***		−3.912***	−3.809***
			(.198)		(.403)	(.569)
	CE			-.433**	2.664***	2.519***
				(.184)	(.378)	(.578)
	constant	-.153**	-.166**	-.112	-.214***	-.222***
		(.078)	(.078)	(.075)	(.081)	(.082)
Humanities	Open	2.271***				2.267***
		(.373)				(.425)
	Conscience	-.456				-.366
		(.347)				(.38)
	Extraversion	-.463**				-.345
		(.205)				(.227)
	Agree	-.3				-.52
		(.381)				(.488)
	Neur.	.166				-.023
		(.192)				(.256)
	SM		.699**		1.506***	1.026
			(.308)		(.575)	(.892)
	CE			.286	-.861*	-.951
				(.268)	(.491)	(.884)
	constant	−1.417***	−1.235***	−1.169***	−1.29***	−1.45***
		(.133)	(.114)	(.105)	(.121)	(.137)
Law & pub. admin	Open	-.128				-.307
		(.258)				(.29)
	Conscience	-.171				-.404
		(.283)				(.288)
	Extraversion	.688***				.419**
		(.16)				(.185)
	Agree	-.715**				-.595
		(.317)				(.392)
	Neur.	-.113				.212
		(.16)				(.188)
	SM		-.139		−1.922***	−1.666***
			(.22)		(.441)	(.619)
	CE			.434**	1.939***	2.159***
				(.195)	(.391)	(.665)
	constant	-.606***	-.58***	-.609***	-.584***	-.619***
		(.089)	(.086)	(.086)	(.087)	(.091)
Social Sciences	Open	.502				.419
		(.34)				(.417)
	Conscience	-.881**				-.948**
		(.407)				(.412)
	Extraversion	.11				.023
		(.18)				(.214)
	Agree	-.308				-.317
		(.406)				(.492)
	Neur.	-.065				.024
		(.226)				(.27)
	SM		-.087		-.335	-.435
			(.349)		(.632)	(.861)
	CE			.009	.267	.663
				(.304)	(.541)	(.846)
	constant	−1.63***	−1.618***	−1.623***	−1.608***	−1.628***
		(.129)	(.127)	(.126)	(.128)	(.131)
Science and technology	Open	1.156***				1.436***
		(.269)				(.299)
	Conscience	-.073				-.017
		(.287)				(.304)
	Extraversion	-.366***				-.292*
		(.138)				(.156)
	Agree	−1.288***				-.876**
		(.301)				(.391)
	Neur.	-.537***				-.539***
		(.161)				(.203)
	SM		-.755***		−1.054**	-.217
			(.225)		(.433)	(.633)
	CE			-.498**	.319	-.601
				(.21)	(.401)	(.62)
	constant	-.578***	-.507***	-.528***	-.496***	-.586***
		(.089)	(.084)	(.084)	(.085)	(.091)
	Observations	1514	1514	1514	1514	1514
	Pseudo R^2	.042	.017	.005	.033	.06

Note. Discipline is the dependent variable for all models. Life Sciences, Medicine, and Health is the base case. Robust standard errors are used. FFM indicates the five-factor model; SM indicates Service Motivation index value; CE indicates Civic Efficacy index value.

*** p<.01, ** p<.05, * p<.1.

Figure 3. Estimated Marginal effect of Civic Efficacy and Service Motivation. Note. Estimates are average marginal effects of one-unit change. Labels are as follows: EBA: Economics and Business Administration; LPA: Law and Public Administration; SSC: Social Sciences; BES: Behavioural and Educational Sciences; HUM: Humanities; STE: Science and Technology; LMH: Life Sciences, Medicine and Health.