The Impact of Involvement in Organizations on the Political Awareness of the Engineering Students from Tarlac State University

Abstract

This study explored the impact of organizational involvement on the political awareness of the Engineering students from Tarlac State University. The researchers employed quantitative, descriptive-correlational research design using a questionnaire as the research instrument. Data was collected from a total of 232 respondents chosen via simple random sampling technique. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software was used to analyze the data statistically, specifically for the frequency distribution, mean, and Spearman’s rank correlation. The results showed that most of the students are members of a college-based organization. In terms of the nature of involvement, the majority identified themselves as active members of their organization. High frequency of involvement was also observed. The respondents garnered an overall political awareness score of 3.50 indicating moderately high political awareness. Correlation analysis showed that there is a moderate positive correlation between the frequency of involvement of the students in their organizations and their political awareness. For the nature of involvement and political awareness, a weak to moderate positive correlation was observed. These results imply that the students that have more active involvement in their respective organizations tend to be more politically aware. Overall, the findings of the study revealed that the organizational involvement of students impacts their political awareness.