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Caregiving and volunteering
— are private and public helping behaviors linked? | | Author(s) | Jeffrey A Burr, Namkee G Choi, Jan E Mutchler |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 60B, no 5, September 2005 |
| Pages | pp S247-S256 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Voluntary work [elderly] ; Voluntary workers ; Life span ; Comparison ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The Tobin regression model was used to analyse panel data from the Americans' Changing Lives survey - 3617 people aged 25+ in 1986, and 2817 of the original respondents in 1989. The aim was to examine the relationship between two forms of helping behaviour among older people: informal caregiving and formal volunteer activity. Older caregivers were found more likely to be volunteers than non-caregivers. Caregivers who provided a relatively high number of caregiving hours annually reported a greater number of volunteer hours than did non-caregivers. Caregivers who provided care to non-relatives were more likely than non-caregivers to be asked to volunteer. These results provide support for the hypothesis that caregivers are embedded in networks that provide them with more opportunities for volunteering. Additional research on the motivations for volunteering and greater attention to the context and hierarchy of caregiving and volunteering are needed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070904219 A |
| Classmark | P6: GHH: QV: BG6: 48: 3J: 7T |
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