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Volunteer Motivations Across Student Organizations: A Test of Person-Environment Fit Theory. Research Report #7-89.
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The article was published on 1989-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 62 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Person–environment fit & Student engagement.read more
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Person–Environment Congruence and Holland's Theory: A Review and Reconsideration
TL;DR: A review of congruence studies from 1985 to 1999 can be found in this article, with a change in emphasis from correlational to experimental designs, with continued improvement and diversification of design and methodology drawing more heavily from person-environment psychology.
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A Functional Approach to Volunteerism: Do Volunteer Motives Predict Task Preference?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether certain volunteer tasks (e.g., reading to the blind, entering data) differentially satisfy certain motives and whether individuals prefer tasks with benefits aligned with their own preferred volunteer motives.
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Attracting applicants in the war for talent: differences in work preferences among high achievers
TL;DR: This paper examined how several indicators of ability and achievement are associated with individual differences in preferences for job and organizational attributes and found that students with high cognitive ability and all types of high achievement place greater importance on interesting and challenging work than do other students.
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Volunteer Motivations and Constraints Among College Students Analysis of the Volunteer Function Inventory and Leisure Constraints Models
Richard L. Gage,Brijesh Thapa +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined motivational factors of college students to volunteer in various capacities using the Volunteer Function Inventory and found that the strongest motives were related to the values and understanding dimension which reflected helping others and expanding one's own perspective on an issue.
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ADHD, impulsivity and entrepreneurship
TL;DR: For example, the authors found that ADHD symptoms are associated with higher levels of sensation seeking, lack of pre-meditation, and lack of perseverance, whereas urgency has the opposite influence.
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The ninth mental measurements yearbook
TL;DR: The Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) as mentioned in this paper is the most comprehensive reference book for standardized tests in education and psychology and has been published every year since 1938, with the exception of The Eighth Mental Measurement Yearbook, which was published in 1989.
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Involvement the Cornerstone of Excellence
TL;DR: The Magazine of Higher Learning: Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 35-39, the authors discusses the importance of involvement as a cornerstone of excellence in higher education.
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Characteristics and Motivations of College Students Volunteering for Community Service.
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Motivations and Perceptions of Volunteerism as a Leisure Activity
TL;DR: In this paper, the psychological aspects of motivation for volunteering in a youth agency (4-H) and determine the perceptions these adult volunteers had regar...... and the purpose of this study was to ascertain the psychological aspect of motivation.
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