Formal Volunteering in Europe: Evidence Across Nations and Time

Damian, Elena

doi:10.1177/1069397118802228

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“…There appears to exist a negative relationship between a country's degree of religiosity and the capability to volunteer, despite the presence of religiosity enhancing social networks that, in turn, positively influence the capability to volunteer. Overall, the results are in line with the findings of Damian (2018) concerning the contextual effect of cultural (religiosity) and economic (GDP; inequality) characteristics. They also provide evidence of the effects of social trust and civil liberties.…”

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“…However, they employed as contextual variables the size of a residential area, the mean of other people's attitudes, and the mean of trust in institutions without providing a clear theoretical rationale for this selection of variables. Using four waves from the European Values Study, Damian (2018) examined cross-sectional and longitudinal effects of contextual cultural and economic characteristics of individual formal volunteering. The study considered cultural and economic explanations and assessed the effects of the following contextual factors on volunteering: religiosity, religious denomination, economic development, and income inequality.…”

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Explaining the Varieties of Volunteering in Europe: A Capability Approach

Enjolras

2021

Voluntas

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Volunteer rates vary greatly across Europe despite the voluntary sector’s common history and tradition. This contribution advances a theoretical explanation for the variation in volunteering across Europe—the capability approach—and tests this approach by adopting a two-step strategy for modeling contextual effects. This approach, referring to the concept of capability introduced by Sen (Choice, welfare and measurement, Oxford University Press, 1980/1982), is based on the claim that the demand and supply sides of the voluntary sector can be expected to vary according to collective and individual capabilities to engage in volunteering. To empirically test the approach, the study relied on two data sources—the 2015 European Union (EU) Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), including an ad hoc module on volunteering at the individual level, and the Quality of Government Institute and PEW Research Center macro-level data sets—to operationalize economic, human, political, social, and religious contextual factors and assess their effects on individuals’ capability to volunteer. The results support the capability hypothesis at both levels. At the individual level, indicators of human, economic, and social resources have a positive effect on the likelihood of volunteering. At the contextual level, macro-structural indicators of economic, political, social, and religious contexts affect individuals’ ability to transform resources into functioning—that is, volunteering.

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Explaining the Varieties of Volunteering in Europe: A Capability Approach

Enjolras

2021

Voluntas

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“…Gil-Lacruz et al [34], based on the results of a study of young people in 20 European countries, concluded that macro-structural factors, such as welfare systems, influence decisions about youth volunteering, influencing government expenditures and employment. Damian [35] in cross-sectional, longitudinal study concluded that church attendance had a negative effect on formal volunteering, while lower inequality had a positive effect, which means that people in secular and equal countries engage more in formal volunteering. Enjolras [11], based on the results of a study in 23 European countries, concluded that human, economic, and social resources at the individual level have a positive effect on the likelihood of volunteering, while at the contextual level, macro-structural factors (economic, political, social, and religious contexts) affect the ability of the individual to transform resources into volunteering activity.…”

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Adolescent volunteering in Poland – contextual and individual determinants

Lachowski,

Lachowska

2023

Ann Agric Environ Med.

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Introduction and Objective. Studies on volunteering concern mainly the population aged over 16, and the results refer mainly to Western Europe. Adolescent volunteering in Eastern European countries is relatively understudied. The aim of the study was to investigate and discuss the scale of this phenomenon in Poland, the predictors of being a volunteer, and factors which explain how much time adolescents spend volunteering. Materials and method. The study was conducted on a representative group of 3,545 respondents aged 14-15. 26.6% of the surveyed adolescents were involved in volunteering in the 12 months preceding the study. Results. The probability of being a volunteer is explained by contextual factors (higher regional income per capita and higher unemployment rate decrease this probability, whereas it increases by living in a city), family factors (father's work in agriculture and more children in the family), individual factors (higher self-esteem of physical fitness and less helplessness). The amount of time devoted to volunteering is explained by contextual factors (the higher the income from agriculture), family factors (mother's work in agriculture; mother's lower level of education), individual factors (greater self-efficacy, lower feeling of helplessness). Volunteering undertaken because of a passion for volunteering is associated with longer volunteering time, while undertaken because of the desire to be liked and respected -with shorter volunteering time. Conclusions. The results are of practical importance, as they show the possibility to promote adolescents' volunteering

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The Causal Relationship Between Volunteering and Social Cohesion: A Large Scale Analysis of Secondary Longitudinal Data

Davies,

Abrams,

Horsham

et al. 2024

Soc Indic Res

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It is often taken for granted that social cohesion and volunteering are inextricably related. Previous research suggests both that social cohesion creates a conducive environment for volunteering to emerge and that volunteering itself facilitates feelings of social cohesion. Despite this, much of the existing evidence on this relationship is limited to cross-sectional research that precludes any assessment of potential causality. In this paper we present a secondary analysis of two large scale and longitudinal social surveys in the UK: the Understanding Society Household Longitudinal Study and the Beyond Us and Them project. Using data from these surveys we estimate a cross-lagged longitudinal model to assess the causal relationships between social cohesion and volunteering over time. Across both data sources, involving different time intervals, we find significant cross-lagged bi-directional relationships between social cohesion and volunteering. These findings provide much needed empirical support for the proposition that social cohesion and volunteering are causally related over periods of both months and years. Implications for theory and policy are discussed.

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Formal Volunteering in Europe: Evidence Across Nations and Time

Cited by 7 publications

References 43 publications

Explaining the Varieties of Volunteering in Europe: A Capability Approach

Explaining the Varieties of Volunteering in Europe: A Capability Approach

Adolescent volunteering in Poland – contextual and individual determinants

The Causal Relationship Between Volunteering and Social Cohesion: A Large Scale Analysis of Secondary Longitudinal Data

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