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Volunteerism: Social Issues Perspectives and Social Policy Implications
Mark Snyder,Allen M. Omoto +1 more
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In this article, the authors define volunteerism as "freely chosen helping activities that extend over time and that are often performed through organizations and on behalf of receptive causes or individuals".Abstract:
This analytic review focuses on theory and research on volunteerism. First, we define volunteerism as freely chosen helping activities that extend over time and that are often performed through organizations and on behalf of receptive causes or individuals. Next, we link these definitional features to the Volunteer Process Model, which depicts volunteerism as a process with three sequential and interactive stages (antecedents, experiences, and consequences) and at multiple levels of analysis. Then, we use this model to organize the empirical literature on volunteerism and selected work on social movements. Finally, we discuss implications for social policy issues relevant to individuals, organizations, communities, and societies.read more
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Volunteerism Research: A Review Essay
TL;DR: This paper used a volunteer process model to organize a review of recent research on volunteerism, focusing mainly on journal articles reporting survey research results, and found that most of the articles were conducted by experts from several different disconferences.
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Altruism and Prosocial Behavior
Mark Snyder,Patrick C. Dwyer +1 more
TL;DR: The psychological study of prosocial behavior covers a wide range of actions that people perform to benefit other persons or groups as discussed by the authors, including volunteerism, participation in social movements, and the dynamics of cooperation within and between collectives.
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A review of informal volunteerism in emergencies and disasters: Definition, opportunities and challenges
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of informal volunteers in emergency and disaster management is reviewed and it is argued that there is an overemphasis on volunteering within, and for, state and formal organizations.
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Citizens’ willingness to participate in local renewable energy projects: The role of community and trust in Germany
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze how community identity, social norms, trust, environmental concern and community identity affect the willingness of individuals to participate in community-based renewable energy projects.
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
TL;DR: Putnam as mentioned in this paper showed that changes in work, family structure, age, suburban life, television, computers, women's roles and other factors are isolating Americans from each other in a trend whose reflection can clearly be seen in British society.
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Bystander intervention in emergencies: Diffusion of responsibility.
John M. Darley,Bibb Latané +1 more
TL;DR: This experiment suggests that the explanation for bystander inaction in real-life emergencies may lie more in the bystander's response to other observers than in his indifference to the victim.
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Understanding and assessing the motivations of volunteers : a functional approach
E. Gil Clary,Mark Snyder,Robert D. Ridge,John Copeland,Arthur A. Stukas,Julie A. Haugen,Peter Miene +6 more
TL;DR: Evidence for predictive validity is provided by a laboratory study in which VFI motivations predicted the persuasive appeal of messages better when message and motivation were matched than mismatched, and by field studies in which the extent to which volunteers' experiences matched their motivations predicted satisfaction.
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Empathy : a social psychological approach
TL;DR: In this article, a multidimensional approach brings together cognitive, sociobiological and behavioural perspectives providing students with a thorough, balanced and well-synthesised presentation of contemporary empathy research.