Nationalism and Social Advocacy Amongst Select Generation Z University Students in Metro Manila

Nationalism and Social Advocacy are two aspects that build the youth’s collective social and political identity. This study focused on identifying the significant relationship between nationalism and social advocacy amongst 35 select Generation Z university students. With the use of the ISSP National Identity Module 2013 Edition and the Social Issues advocacy scale, the respondents’ nationalism and social advocacy levels were defined, respectively. Along with a letter of informed consent, both scales were embedded and distributed using an online survey tool to individuals that fit the inclusion criteria within Metro Manila. The results were analyzed and organized using the Pearson R Correlation test and descriptive statistics per variable, under the SPSS Statistics tool ver. 27, to determine the possible relationship between these two variables. The findings show that select university students have a high level of nationalism and social advocacy, and a strong positive significant relationship was found between the two variables. In addition to this, the direct relationship between both variables may indicate increased civic engagement, hence the recommendation of studying either variable in political activism amongst the youth or another field of university students in Metro Manila.