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Religious vs secular volunteering motivations
— a study on European elders | | Author(s) | Antonio Ariza-Montes, Pilar Tirado-Valencia, Vicente Fernandez-Roriguez, Mark A Hager |
| Journal title | Research on Ageing and Social Policy, vol 6, no 1, Jan-June 2018 |
| Publisher | Hipatia Press, Jan-June 2018 |
| Pages | pp 82-111 |
| Source | http://hipatiapress.com/hpjournals/index.php/rasp/... |
| Keywords | Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Voluntary work [elderly] ; Participation ; Attitude ; Quantitative studies ; Europe. |
| Annotation | Volunteering is difficult to define and typify because of the great variety of interpretations, motivations, socio-demographic variables and cultural aspects that shape the volunteer profile. This work aims to analyse the differential and inter-related impact of socio-demographic and contextual variables, and cultural values on elder volunteer profile in Europe. The authors conduct an empirical study involving the use of a logistic regression model that shows, in probabilistic terms, traits that characterise senior and retired volunteers. Further, they study which variables motivate senior volunteers to a determined type of volunteering. Results from the European Value Study help to explain variable influence on volunteering, and confirm that cultural values affect older people, both in the selection to volunteering activities and decisions regarding which kind of activity volunteers are drawn to. By analysing two types of volunteering (religious and secular) that are supposed to be motivated by different forces, the authors conclude that certain values encourage religious volunteering, while others stimulate secular volunteering. (OFFPRINT.) (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180417004 A |
| Classmark | EX: GHH: TMB: DP: 3DQ: 74 |
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