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Defining Who is a Volunteer: Conceptual and Empirical Considerations
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In this article, the authors attempt to delineate the boundaries of the term volunteer, and they first reviewed 11 widely used volunteer terms and found that volunteer is used too broadly in denoting nonsalaried service.Abstract:
T1he term volunteer is used too broadly in denoting nonsalaried service. In this article, the authors attempt to delineate the boundaries of the term volunteer. They first reviewed 11 widely used d...read more
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Volunteer work and well-being.
Peggy A. Thoits,Lyndi N. Hewitt +1 more
TL;DR: Using two waves of panel data from Americans' Changing Lives (House 1995), the relationships between volunteer work in the community and six aspects of personal well-being are examined: happiness, life satisfaction, self-esteem, sense of control over life, physical health, and depression.
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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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Understanding the volunteer market: the what, where, who and why of volunteering
Helen Bussell,Deborah Forbes +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, Stewart argues that the key to an organisation's success in recruiting and retaining its volunteers is to have an understanding of its target group, and identifies gaps in this area of research and presents topics for further research.
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Collective and Reflexive Styles of Volunteering: A Sociological Modernization Perspective
Lesley Hustinx,Frans Lammertyn +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a theory-guided examination of the changing nature of volunteering through the lens of sociological modernization theories is presented, where existing accounts of qualitative changes in motivational bases and patterns of volunteering are interpreted against the background of broader, modernizationdriven social-structural transformations.
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Travelling with a Purpose: Understanding the Motives and Benefits of Volunteer Vacationers
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined different travel motivation factors for someone who chooses to use part of their vacation participating in volunteer or humanitarian activities and found that four main themes for why people traveled with a purpose.
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A basis for scaling qualitative data.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a new approach for quantifying qualitative data in the social and psychological sciences, which seems to afford an adequate basis for quantification qualitative data and is used successfully for the past year or so in investigating morale and other problems in the United States Army by the Research Branch of the Morale Services Division of the Army Service Forces.
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Determinants of Voluntary Association Participation and Volunteering: A Literature Review:
TL;DR: A review of the American literature in social science for the period 1975-1992 on the determinants of volunteer participation in programs and associations can be found in this article. But most studies are t...
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Altruism, volunteers, and volunteerism
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that volunteering is essentially an instrumental (though not necessarily selfish) activity, done to achieve ends which the volunteer finds rewarding, and explore the policy implications of this view.
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Mapping Volunteer Activity
Ram A. Cnaan,Laura Amrofell +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use a mapping sentence method to group a variety of volunteer characteristics under key interrelated facets, and systematically group them into ten major components of volunteer activity to provide clarity and better understanding of the major components.