Is volunteering in later life impeded or stimulated by other activities?

Abstract

The article demonstrates that the activity level of older people is not sufficient to understand volunteering, that is, a distinction between the types of activities is essential.

“Charity Begins at Home”: Informal Caring Barriers to Formal Volunteering Among Older People

“…Most prior research investigating decision-making relating to volunteering has either involved population samples that include both volunteers and non-volunteers to identify any differences between the groups (Bulanda and Jendrek, 2016;Dury et al, 2016;Gil-Lacruz et al, 2017;Gray et al, 2012;Hank and Stuck, 2008;Lee and Brudney, 2009;Mitani, 2013;Plagnol and Huppert, 2009;Taniguchi, 2011;van der Horst et al, 2016;Wang et al, 2016;Warburton and Stirling, 2007;Yeung, 2016) or only included current volunteers (Hong and Morrow-Howell, 2013;Kelemen et al, 2017;Larkin, Sadler, and Mahler, 2005;. The present study adopted an alternative approach by intentionally sampling those who do not engage in formal volunteering to identify factors contributing to their lack of participation.…”

“…The factors influencing the types of volunteering and caring activities undertaken have yet to be adequately explored, and it is expected that individuals' life circumstances will act as motivators or inhibitors to their participation in different kinds of volunteering behaviors (Gray et al, 2012). There have been repeated and ongoing calls for further research to investigate (i) the extent to which various other caring activities may impede individuals' capacity and willingness to engage in formal volunteering and (ii) the relevant motivations that influence individuals' choices between these forms of activity (Dury et al, 2016;Gil-Lacruz, Marcuello, and Saz-Gil, 2017;Hank and Stuck, 2008;Lee and Brudney, 2009;Nancy Morrow-Howell, 2010;van der Horst et al, 2016;Wang et al, 2016;Wilson and Musick, 1997).…”

“…Among the studies to date that have specifically attempted to determine whether engaging in informal volunteering and/or caring duties competes with or complements formal volunteering among older people, no clear pattern has emerged. While most studies appear to demonstrate that there is complementarity between the two forms of activity as indicated by the tendency for individuals to participate in both (e.g., Bulanda and Jendrek, 2016;Gray, Khoo, and Reimondos, 2012;Hank and Stuck, 2008;Lee and Brudney, 2012;Plagnol and Huppert, 2009;Taniguchi, 2011), some suggest competition exists between the activities (e.g., Dury et al, 2016), and others fail to find support for either complementarity or competition (e.g., van der Horst et al, 2016).…”

Motivação para o trabalho dos voluntários que atuam em hospital público estadual de São Paulo, referência em HIV

“…O objetivo do estudo belga era descobrir atividades que impedem ou estimulam o voluntariado real e/ou a probabilidade de ser voluntário em uma idade mais avançada. Houve, no estudo daquele país, forte correlação positiva entre os tipos de atividades altruístas e voluntariado real (Dury et al, 2016). Embora a idade média esteja abaixo dos 50 anos, na presente análise há uma importante representação de aposentados.…”

“…Modelos das análises fatoriais confirmatórias da estrutura proposta do PVQ-RR por tipos de segunda ordem.AutotranscedênciaAbertura à Mudanças Autopromoção ConservaçãoFonte: Adaptada deSchwartz et al, (2012) apud Torres e Schwartz,(2016).…”