Promoting Emotional and Social Well-Being and a Sense of Belonging in Adolescents through Participation in Volunteering Luque Suárez, Mónica Francisca Olmos Gómez, María Del Carmen Castán-Garcia, María Portillo-Sánchez, Raquel Volunteering Adolescents Emotional well-being Emotional health Sense of belonging This research received external funding from Research Group (SEJ 131): Analysis of Social Life. The data presented in this study are available on request from the first author, e-mail: mlsuarez@ugr.es (M.L.-S.). The aim of this study was to analyze the differences within education-related degrees with respect to participation in volunteering. Volunteering motivation promotes and encourages emotional and social well-being and a sense of belonging in university students. This study was based on a total sample of 985 students undertaking Degrees in Early Childhood Education, Primary Education, and Social Education who attended higher education institutions in Northern Africa (Spain) and Eastern Spain. Once the quality parameters of the instrument were determined, the reliability was confirmed, and data collection was initiated. In order to analyze the results, a multilevel study (ANOVA) was conducted by interacting the variables for degrees with three levels (PE = Primary Education; EC = Early Childhood Education; SE = Social Education) and the variable "volunteering is my motivation to feel better", with five levels (strongly disagree, disagree, unsure, agree, and strongly agree). From the data obtained, it was concluded that there were significant differences between the different degree paths, the assessment covering sociodemographic variables and areas of interest showing that volunteering benefits university students both socially and in their decision-making processes. 2021-04-23T11:41:48Z 2021-04-23T11:41:48Z 2021-03-22 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Luque-Suárez, M.; Olmos-Gómez, M.d.C.; Castán-García, M.; Portillo-Sánchez, R. Promoting Emotional and Social Well-Being and a Sense of Belonging in Adolescents through Participation in Volunteering. Healthcare 2021, 9, 359. [https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9030359] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/68083 10.3390/healthcare9030359 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España MDPI