Abstract: To explore the characteristics of middle school students' social service experiences in China and the effects on their future civic action intentions, as well as the mediating effect of community service perspectives, 6203 middle school students were selected to fill Social Service Experience Quality Questionnaires, Community Service Perspective Questionnaires and Civic Action Intention Questionnaires. The results showed that: (1) There are significant differences among various dimensions of students' social service experience qualities. The scores of self and exterior regulations, deepen and broaden factors, linking to curriculum, autonomy are successively reduced. (2) Significant differences of students' social service experiences qualities were emerged in regions, types of schools and grades, favoring those from cities, model schools, or low-grades. The interaction between types of schools and grades was also significant, as the advantages of model schools were mainly existed in the low-grades. (3) Simple correlation results indicate significant relationship among students' social service experiences qualities, community service perspectives and civic action intentions. Students' community service perspectives partially mediated the relationship between social service experiences qualities and civic action intentions.

Key words: social service experience, community service perspective, civic action intention