Volunteering and Its Relationship With Personal and Neighborhood Well-Being

Mellor, David; Hayashi, Yoko; Stokes, Mark A.; Firth, Lucy; Lake, Lucy; Staples, Michael; Chambers, Sue; Cummins, Robert A.

doi:10.1177/0899764008317971

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“…However, most modern manifestations of volunteerism are not confined solely to the non-profit sector (e.g. volunteering at events), but are consistent in that volunteerism stems from a positive personal attitude that meant that there is a higher life satisfaction in helping others or society (Gallarza 2000), resulting in greater personal and social welfare (Mellor et al 2009). …”

Section: A Normative Approach To Volunteering: Trying To Define What mentioning

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Measuring Socio-Demographic Differences in Volunteers with a Value-Based Index: Illustration in a Mega Event

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The phenomenon of volunteering can be analysed as a consumer experience through the concept of value as a trade-off between benefits and costs. In event volunteering, both the expected value (pre-experienced) and the perceived value (post-experienced) of volunteering can be assessed. With this purpose, an online quantitative survey is conducted with a sample of 711 volunteers in a religious mega event, with questions related to five dimensions of their experience: efficiency, social value, play, spirituality and time spent. These five scales, properly tested are used for building a multidimensional index of both the expected and perceived value of the volunteer experience. ANOVAs test show significant differences on the index in both moments upon the socio-demographic profiles: negative expectations/experience balance by age, contrasted results by sex, and more experienced volunteers being more critical with the value experienced. Implications for event managers are proposed, in line with the motivation of volunteers. Resumen El fenómenos del voluntariado puede ser analizado como una experiencia de consumidor mediante el concepto de valor como una solución de compromiso entre beneficios y costes. En el voluntariado de eventos, se puede evaluar tanto el valor esperado (pre-experimentado) como el valor percibido (post-experimentado) del voluntariado. Con este fin, se realiza una encuesta cuantitativa online con una muestra de 711 voluntarios en un mega-evento religioso, con preguntas relacionadas con cinco dimensiones de su experiencia: eficiencia, valor social, desempeño, espiritualidad y tiempo dedicado. Estas cinco escalas, adecuadamente probadas se utilizan para crear un índice multidimensional tanto del valor esperado como del valor percibido de la experiencia del voluntario. La prueba ANOVA Voluntas 123Author's personal copy muestra diferencias significativas en el índice en ambos momentos con respecto a los perfile socio-demográficos: expectativas negativas/experiencia base por edad, resultados contrastados por sexo, y voluntarios más experimentados que son más críticos con el valor experimentado. Se proponen implicaciones para los gestores de eventos, en línea con la motivación de los voluntarios.

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Section: A Normative Approach To Volunteering: Trying To Define What mentioning

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Measuring Socio-Demographic Differences in Volunteers with a Value-Based Index: Illustration in a Mega Event

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“…As pointed out by Wilson and Musick [9], volunteer work, unlike work in the market and in the informal sector, is "un-commodified" and "freely undertaken", explaining why motivations play such a key role in determining what is or not volunteering [10]. The benefits to volunteers are both attitudinal (e.g., greater happiness and satisfaction) and utilitarian (e.g., better health and a higher level of human capital) [11]. The latter includes the opportunity to acquire additional skills.…”

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Recent Trends in the Supply and Demand of Volunteers

Schenkel¹,

Ermano²,

Marino³

2014

AJIBM

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This work aims at describing the trends observed since the beginning of the crisis in the supply of and demand for volunteers. Few works exist that examine this dynamic, for the lack of recent data, and because the study of the demand for volunteers and for volunteers services is still rather undeveloped. Some hints appear that indicate: 1) an increase in the stock of volunteers, but not in every country, 2) an increase in demand for volunteers services.

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“…This initiative promoted the development of studies on volunteering. Themes such as the motivation to perform volunteer activities, 1 the relationship between volunteering and the volunteer's physical and mental well-being, 6,16,20 volunteers' psychological, occupational, and socio-demographic characteristics 5,20 and volunteer group management strategies 3,4,14 have been debated in the international literature.…”

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confidence: 99%