Students’ Vocational Choices and Voluntary Action: A 12-Nation Study

Haski‐Leventhal, Debbie; Cnaan, Ram A.; Handy, Femida; Brudney, Jeffrey L.; Holmes, Kirsten; Hustinx, Lesley; Kang, Chul Hee; Kassam, Meenaz; Meijs, Lucas; Ranade, Bhagyashree; Yamauchi, Naoto; Yeung, Anne Birgitta; Zrinščak, Siniša

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“…The distribution of students across disciplines differed by country, with substantial overrepresentation of some disciplinary areas in Japan (79.9% from social sciences), UK (44.4% from natural sciences), and Finland (39.8% from humanities). Results based on these data have previously been reported in articles on students' vocational choices and volunteering (Haski-Leventhal et al 2008), and service learning .…”

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Cultural Values and Volunteering: A Cross-cultural Comparison of Students’ Motivation to Volunteer in 13 Countries

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Voluntary participation is connected to cultural, political, religious and social contexts. Social and societal factors can provide opportunities, expectations and requirements for voluntary activity, as well as influence the values and norms promoting this. These contexts are especially central in the case of voluntary participation among students as they are often responding to the societal demands for building a career and qualifying for future assignments and/or government requirements for completing community service. This article questions how cultural values affect attitudes towards volunteerism, using data from an empirical research project on student volunteering activity in 13 countries in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia Pacific region. The findings indicate that there are differences in motivation between countries which represent different cultural values. This article sets these findings in context by comparing structural and cultural factors which may influence volunteerism within each country.

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Cultural Values and Volunteering: A Cross-cultural Comparison of Students’ Motivation to Volunteer in 13 Countries

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“…Other publications from this research project have extended this cross-cultural perspective and investigated country differences and the relationships between participation in volunteering, and variously students' vocational choices, involvement in service learning programs, and career-orientated motivations Haski-Leventhal et al, 2008, 2010.…”

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“…The data are extracted from a larger study examining student voluntary action across 14 countries (see Handy et al, 2010;Haski-Leventhal et al, 2008). In each country a member of the research team distributed questionnaires to a minimum of 600 university students.…”

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Motivations and Benefits of Student Volunteering: Comparing Regular, Occasional, and Non-Volunteers in Five Countries

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Programs targeting student volunteering and service learning are aimed at encouraging civic behaviour among young people. This article reports on a large-scale international survey comparing volunteering among university students in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The data revealed high rates of student volunteering and the popularity of occasional volunteering. It also revealed that other young people were the main beneficiaries of students' voluntary activities. Student volunteers were influenced by a mix of motivations and benefits, with differences on a continuum of volunteer involvement between those volunteering regularly, those volunteering occasionally, and those not volunteering. RÉSUMÉ

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“…Students are not only an important pool of volunteers in the present, but also the civil society of tomorrow (Haski-Leventhal et al, 2008b).…”

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The Third-party Model: Enhancing Volunteering through Governments, Corporations and Educational Institutes

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Volunteering is perceived as important for creating social capital and civil society, and therefore has become a fundamental part of social policies across most Western countries. In this article, we examine the involvement of governments, corporations and educational institutes in encouraging volunteering, and pinpoint their role in developing volunteering circles. Based on essential concepts presented here (volunteerability and recruitability), we develop the third-party model, and show how third parties get involved. We identify new ways in which these parties can enhance volunteering, and discuss their impact on volunteerability and recruitability. The potential negative impacts of volunteerism and ways in which these can be ameliorated are also acknowledged. Finally, issues that arise due to such involvement are also discussed, thereby offering an important contribution to social policy research in the area of volunteerism.

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Students’ Vocational Choices and Voluntary Action: A 12-Nation Study

Cited by 33 publications

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Cultural Values and Volunteering: A Cross-cultural Comparison of Students’ Motivation to Volunteer in 13 Countries

Cultural Values and Volunteering: A Cross-cultural Comparison of Students’ Motivation to Volunteer in 13 Countries

Motivations and Benefits of Student Volunteering: Comparing Regular, Occasional, and Non-Volunteers in Five Countries

The Third-party Model: Enhancing Volunteering through Governments, Corporations and Educational Institutes

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