Volunteer service opportunities for older adults may soon be expanded. Although volunteering is thought to provide health benefits for healthier older adults, it is not known whether older adults in less than very good health are suitable candidates for high-intensity volunteering and can derive health benefits. This manuscript presents a prospective analysis of 174 older adult volunteers servi...

This article is intended as the leading in a Special Issue of Voluntas devoted to episodic volunteering from cross-cultural perspective. focuses on summarizing and distilling knowledge about volunteering. Based thorough literature review, authors present state-of-the-art divided into key subsections that include: (1) new area or era volunteering? (2) Defining concept volunteering, (3) singulari...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS A narrative review of quantitative population-based longitudinal studies was conducted to examine the association of formal voluntary work and personal well-being among older people doing the voluntary work and those being served. METHODS To be included, the study had to be published in a peer-reviewed journal, written in English and conducted in Western countries, partici...

The positive effect of income on volunteering found in many studies is conventionally explained in utilitarian terms: volunteer work is “costly” or demands “resources.” This explanation overlooks important sociopsychological processes. By situating the income-volunteering relationship within the stress process framework, we develop a theory that traces the influence of income on chronic financi...

The positive trend in volunteering among the Dutch young old may in part be due to a relatively favorable disposition to volunteer. Using data from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam, volunteering rates of 55-64 year olds in 1992 and 2002 were compared and associated with (among others) three types of dispositional factors: religious involvement, age-related engagement norms, and parental s...

Previous studies have revealed the influence of cultural values on volunteering; however, few focused Confucian value benevolence. This study examined relationship between benevolence and volunteering, as well mediating role volunteer motives. A total 473 Chinese college students completed questionnaires to assess benevolence, including familism, unity, harmony (UH), six functional motives volu...

As technology becomes increasingly pervasive and invasive, it increasingly facilitates and instigates behaviour. Prosocial behaviours, such as volunteering, activism and philanthropy, are activities that are considered to be particularly beneficial to others. Prosocial behaviours are important within IS as: (i) they are encouraged by IS stakeholders including volunteering organisations and char...

Charity organizations often have limited resources and thus rely on individual contributions of money and time. The existing literature is divided on whether charitable giving and volunteering are complements or substitutes. This paper aims to clarify the relationship between giving time and giving money using 2012 General Social Survey results and to explore whether certain demographical attri...