@article{rockenbach_hudson_2024, title={Transforming Political Divides: How Student Identities and Campus Contexts Shape Interpartisan Friendships}, volume={10}, ISSN={["2332-8584"]}, DOI={10.1177/23328584231222475}, abstractNote={Recent evidence suggests that only about 1 in 5 U.S. adults has a friend on the political “other side” (Dunn, 2020). Although these interpartisan friendships are uncommon, they play a critical role in catalyzing empathy, reducing prejudice, furthering justice, and even restoring democracy, as suggested by the theory of civic friendship (Goering, 2003; Kahane, 1999; Rawlins, 2009). In the present study, we drew on national data from the Interfaith Diversity Experiences and Attitudes Longitudinal Survey (IDEALS) to examine the personal and contextual factors that predict interpartisan friendship formation among 5,762 college students attending 118 higher education institutions in the United States. The findings revealed the constellation of individual, social, and institutional contributors to students’ capacities to reach across political differences in their friendships. We offer guidance for how college educators can support the development of these relationships that may open a path toward empathy and healing in our polarized society.}, journal={AERA OPEN}, author={Rockenbach, Alyssa N. and Hudson, Tara D.}, year={2024} }
 @article{rockenbach_hudson_tuchmayer_2014, title={Fostering Meaning, Purpose, and Enduring Commitments to Community Service in College: A Multidimensional Conceptual Model}, volume={85}, ISSN={["1538-4640"]}, DOI={10.1353/jhe.2014.0014}, abstractNote={Using longitudinal data collected as part of the 2004/09 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study, this study employed structural equation modeling to examine how multiple dimensions of college students’ service participation shape life goals oriented toward meaning, purpose, and citizenship and subsequent service engagement. The findings suggest that life goals and subsequent service participation are a function of students’ citizenship predispositions, the intensity and context of service involvement, and, importantly, the benefits that students derive from their service participation. Becoming a more compassionate and socially aware person as a result of service work is positively linked to committing oneself to a meaningful life marked by helping others, civic engagement, and service.}, number={3}, journal={JOURNAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION}, author={Rockenbach, Alyssa Bryant and Hudson, Tara D. and Tuchmayer, Jeremy B.}, year={2014}, pages={312–338} }