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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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Why Do First and Second-Generation Young Migrants Volunteer? The Migrant Volunteerism Motivation Model (MVMM)
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted semi-structured interviews with 37 Sub-Saharan young migrants living in Italy (18-32 years old), 19 of first generation (1G) and 18 of second generation (2G).
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Expansive and transformative learning within volunteer training : a multiple case study of three UK health and social care charities
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Communication, Volunteering, and Aging: A Research Agenda
Jessica Gasiorek,Howard Giles +1 more
TL;DR: This paper explored the link between volunteering and successful aging and argued that many of the documented benefits of volunteering may in fact result from the communicative opportunities it affords, and outlined an agenda for future research on communication, successful aging, and volunteering.
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Family Characteristics, Public Program Participation, & Civic Engagement
TL;DR: This paper found that means-tested Food Stamps, Medicaid, or EITC participants were as likely as non-participants to devote time to activities aimed at changing social conditions.
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Who is a volunteer? A cultural and temporal exploration of volunteerism
TL;DR: The authors developed a temporal and cultural definition of volunteering in China using a comparative mixed-methods approach and found that at the extreme ends of the volunteer scale, both the U.S. and Chinese samples could readily distinguish what volunteering was or was not.
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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.