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Current Directions in Psychological Science, 1999
Why do significant numbers of people engage in the unpaid helping activities known as volunteerism? Drawing on functional theorizing about the reasons, purposes, and motivations underlying human behavior, we have identified six personal and social functions potentially served by volunteering.
E. Gil Clary, Mark Snyder
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Why do significant numbers of people engage in the unpaid helping activities known as volunteerism? Drawing on functional theorizing about the reasons, purposes, and motivations underlying human behavior, we have identified six personal and social functions potentially served by volunteering.
E. Gil Clary, Mark Snyder
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Environmental Volunteering: motivations, modes and outcomes [PDF]
Australian Geographer, 2008 Volunteers play a key role in natural resource management: their commitment, time and labour constitute a major contribution towards managing environments in Australia and throughout the world. From the point of view of environmental managers, much interest has focused on defining tasks suitable to volunteers.
Thomas G Measham, Guy B Barnett
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The Motivations and Effectiveness of Hospital Volunteers
The Journal of Social Psychology, 1996The effectiveness of volunteers was examined in a sample of 98 volunteer workers at a community hospital in central North Carolina. The volunteers were asked to provide demographic information about themselves and to respond to a 20-item questionnaire designed to assess their motives for volunteering.
R L, Zweigenhaft +3 more
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Volunteers` personality and their motivation for volunteering
2016Volunteers` personality and their motivation for volunteering is not well researched in Croatian scientific literature, with only one study exploring personality differences between volunteers and non-volunteers (Mažar, 2011) and connecting in both theoretical and methodological plausible way this two constructs (Juzbašić & Vukasović Hlupić, 2015). Our
Penezić, Zvjezdan, Jakšić, Krešimir
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Motives for Event Volunteering
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2014This research addressed volunteering in the context of an international sports event. The functional approach assumes that matching volunteers’ motives and environmental affordances predicts favorable outcomes. We tested this assumption with respect to event volunteering and proposed two additional motivational functions that may be served by event ...
Stefan T. Güntert +2 more
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1997
If research sponsors must avoid undue inducement in order to avoid the problem of invalidating “free consent,” then another question begins to surface: why would anyone choose to volunteer as a subject in these vaccine studies? The risks involved would seem to provide good reasons for some potential volunteers to decline participation.
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If research sponsors must avoid undue inducement in order to avoid the problem of invalidating “free consent,” then another question begins to surface: why would anyone choose to volunteer as a subject in these vaccine studies? The risks involved would seem to provide good reasons for some potential volunteers to decline participation.
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2011
2011 was by the EU chosen to be the European Year of Volunteerism to accentuate and encourage the great variety of volunteer work across Europe. In Denmark this has been marked through a number of different initiatives, which among other things are aimed at enabling the fulfilment of the Government’s goal of having every second Dane performing ...
Hvidtfeldt, Gunvor Winther +1 more
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2011 was by the EU chosen to be the European Year of Volunteerism to accentuate and encourage the great variety of volunteer work across Europe. In Denmark this has been marked through a number of different initiatives, which among other things are aimed at enabling the fulfilment of the Government’s goal of having every second Dane performing ...
Hvidtfeldt, Gunvor Winther +1 more
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Altruism as a motivation to volunteer
Journal of Economic Psychology, 1991Abstract Voluntarism is often explained as ‘doing good works’, in the Judaeo-Christian tradition. Yet research in social psychology and economics generally minimizes altruism as a motivation for volunteering. This paper investigates the existence of an altruistic motive to volunteer. Empirical research based on Backer's (1974) utility interdependence
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