Volunteering and Trajectories of Depression

Kim, Joongbaeck; Pai, Manacy

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“…The results also demonstrated that the CSES could discriminate between the groups; that is, the scores of all the CSES factors and sub-scales in the CVOL group were higher than those in the GEN group (Table 4). This finding is also consistent with outcomes that volunteers have advantages over other citizens in terms of physical activity [42], mental health [43], self-rated health [44], and general self-efficacy [31]. …”

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Development of a community’s self-efficacy scale for preventing social isolation among community-dwelling older people (Mimamori Scale)

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BackgroundAmong older people in developed countries, social isolation leading to solitary death has become a public health issue of vital importance. Such isolation could be prevented by monitoring at-risk individuals at the neighborhood level and by implementing supportive networks at the community level. However, a means of measuring community confidence in these measures has not been established. This study is aimed at developing the Community’s Self-Efficacy Scale (CSES; Mimamori scale in Japanese) for community members preventing social isolation among older people.MethodsThe CSES is a self-administered questionnaire developed on the basis of Bandura’s self-efficacy theory. The survey was given to a general population (GEN) sample (n = 6,000) and community volunteer (CVOL) sample (n = 1,297). Construct validity was determined using confirmatory factor analysis. Internal consistency was calculated using Cronbach’s alpha. The Generative Concern Scale (GCS-R) and Brief Sense of Community Scale (BSCS) were also administered to assess criterion-related validity of the CSES.ResultsIn total, 3,484 and 859 valid responses were received in the GEN and CVOL groups, respectively. The confirmatory factor analysis identified eight items from two domains—community network and neighborhood watch—with goodness of fit index = 0.984, adjusted goodness of fit index = 0.970, comparative fit index = 0.988, and root mean square error of approximation = 0.047. Cronbach’s alpha for the entire CSES was 0.87 and for the subscales was 0.80 and higher. The score of the entire CSES was positively correlated with the GCS-R in both the GEN (r = 0.80, p < 0.001) and CVOL (r = 0.86, p < 0.001) samples.ConclusionsThe CSES demonstrated adequate reliability and validity for assessing a community’s self-efficacy to aid in its preventing social isolation among older people. The scale is potentially useful for promoting health policies, practices, and interventions within communities. This may help prevent social isolation among older people and contribute to overall well-being in aging societies in Japan and abroad.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12889-016-3857-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Development of a community’s self-efficacy scale for preventing social isolation among community-dwelling older people (Mimamori Scale)

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“…Research has found that participation in voluntary services is significantly predictive of better mental and physical health [1, 2], life satisfaction [3], self-esteem [3, 4], happiness [5, 6], lower depressive symptoms [4, 7], psychological distress [3, 8], and mortality and functional inability [8, 9]. As proved recently, the health benefits of volunteering are not due to self-selection bias.…”

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“…What remains uncharted for the relationship between volunteering and health outcomes is pertinent to whether volunteering may have cumulative effects on health and what form of volunteering is preferable for promoting health benefits for volunteers [1, 7, 9]. Regarding the volunteering and health connection, the role accumulation perspective supports the position that a volunteer who concomitantly participates in different types of voluntary services can benefit his or her health most [2, 4, 5, 8].…”

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Volunteering and health benefits in general adults: cumulative effects and forms

2017

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BackgroundAlthough the health benefits of volunteering have been well documented, no research has examined its cumulative effects according to other-oriented and self-oriented volunteering on multiple health outcomes in the general adult public. This study examined other-oriented and self-oriented volunteering in cumulative contribution to health outcomes (mental and physical health, life satisfaction, social well-being and depression).MethodsData were drawn from the Survey of Texas Adults 2004, which contains a statewide population-based sample of adults (n = 1504). Multivariate linear regression and Wald test of parameters equivalence constraint were used to test the relationships.ResultsBoth forms of volunteering were significantly related to better health outcomes (odds ratios = 3.66% to 11.11%), except the effect of self-oriented volunteering on depression. Other-oriented volunteering was found to have better health benefits than did self-volunteering.ConclusionVolunteering should be promoted by public health, education and policy practitioners as a kind of healthy lifestyle, especially for the social subgroups of elders, ethnic minorities, those with little education, single people, and unemployed people, who generally have poorer health and less participation in volunteering.

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“…Although prior work has examined differing mental well-being selection and causation processes due to life-course factors such as age or social integration (Kim and Pai 2010;Li and Ferraro 2006;Omoto et al 2010;Piliavin and Siegl 2007), other resources remain overlooked. Because education is one of the strongest human resources or capitals for volunteering (Wilson 2012), mental health may more effectively lead to volunteering given higher levels of education.…”

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The Contingent Effects of Mental Well-being and Education on Volunteering

Andersson

Glanville

2016

Society and Mental Health

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Mental health or well-being provides individuals with an enhanced agentic capacity for formal volunteering. However, this capacity may be realized more effectively through the structural resources for volunteering provided by education. Analyzing white respondents from the 1995-2005 National Survey of Midlife Development Panel Study (N = 1,431), we examine the contingent effects of mental well-being and education on the probability of formal volunteering. In longitudinal models, we find that mental well-being has a role in volunteering only at higher levels of education and that deficits in mental well-being reduce the effect of education. This holds across three representative indicators of mental well-being capturing the absence of negative symptoms as well as the presence of thriving or positive emotion. As a whole, our findings suggest that agency and structure are intertwined in determining who volunteers.

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Volunteering and Trajectories of Depression

Abstract: Overall findings highlight the importance of assessing the long-term health impact of volunteering and doing so under diverse social structural contexts.

Cited by 102 publications

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Development of a community’s self-efficacy scale for preventing social isolation among community-dwelling older people (Mimamori Scale)

Development of a community’s self-efficacy scale for preventing social isolation among community-dwelling older people (Mimamori Scale)

Volunteering and health benefits in general adults: cumulative effects and forms

The Contingent Effects of Mental Well-being and Education on Volunteering

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