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

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

doi:10.1007/s10805-011-9131-6

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“…Finally, voluntary participation is connected to cultural, political, religious and social contexts (Parboteeah, Cullen, & Lim, 2004;Grönlund et al, 2011;Gil-Lacruz, Marcuello-Servós, & Saz-Gil, 2015). The positioning of a culture on the individualistic-collectivist dimension (Hostfede, 2001), the emphasis on public services for welfare provision (Esping-Andersen, 1999), and the political system or religiosity affect volunteering in different 90…”

Section: Socio-demographic and Contextual Forcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Religious vs Secular volunteering motivations: A study on European elders

Ariza‐Montes¹,

Valencia²,

FernÃ¡ndez-RodrÃguez³

et al. 2018

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The reality of volunteering is highly complex. This concept is difficult to define and typify because of the great variety of interpretations, motivations, socio-demographic variables and cultural aspects that shape the volunteer profile. This work aims to analyze the differential and inter-related impact of socio-demographic and contextual variables, and cultural values on elder volunteer profile in Europe. We thus conduct an empirical study involving the use of a logistic regression model that shows, in probabilistic terms, traits that characterize senior and retired volunteers. Further, we study which variables motivate senior volunteers to a determined type of volunteering. Results from the European Value Study help to explain variable influence on volunteering and confirm that cultural values impact among elder people, both, election to volunteering activities and decisions regarding which kind of activity volunteers are drawn to. By analyzing two types of volunteering (religious and secular) that are supposed to be motivated by different forces, we conclude that certain values encourage religious volunteering while others stimulate secular volunteering.

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Section: Socio-demographic and Contextual Forcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Religious vs Secular volunteering motivations: A study on European elders

Ariza‐Montes¹,

Valencia²,

FernÃ¡ndez-RodrÃguez³

et al. 2018

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“…El estudio de la relación valores-voluntariado ha sido una cuestión abordada desde diferentes disciplinas como la sociología, la psicología, la economía, la gestión de recursos humanos o la organización empresarial, entre otras, sin llegar a resultados concluyentes en esta materia (Inglehart, 1997;Hofstede, 2001;Grönlund et al, 2011).…”

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Valores humanos y voluntariado: Un estudio en personas mayores

Ariza-Montes¹,

Valencia²,

Fernández-Rodríguez

2017

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ResumenObjeto: Esta investigación profundiza en el perfil de los valores humanos que influye en las personas mayores a la hora de colaborar de manera altruista como voluntarios. Para abordar la posible relación entre valores y voluntariado se adopta como perspectiva de análisis la Teoría de los Valores Humanos desarrollada por Schwartz (1992).Diseño/metodología/enfoque: Tras un análisis exploratorio inicial, se plantea un modelo de regresión logística para determinar en qué medida el catálogo de valores personales que posee un individuo ayuda a explicar la actividad de voluntariado entre las personas mayores. Aportaciones y resultados:Los resultados del modelo permiten afirmar que el hecho de que una persona mayor done o no tiempo a actividades de voluntariado puede ser satisfactoriamente explicado por el conjunto de valores humanos. Los resultados obtenidos revelan que los voluntarios jubilados presentan mayor sentido de la autotrascendencia y predisposición hacia el cambio, a la vez que denotan más aversión hacia la autopromoción y la conservación.Implicaciones prácticas: Para mejorar el nivel de compromiso y la motivación de los voluntarios mayores jubilados, y afrontar con firmeza los retos que amenazan al sector no lucrativo, los responsables de los recursos humanos de las entidades del tercer sector deberán -253-

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“…(a) The first being the level of socio-economic development: there is a direct positive link between the increasing level of industrialization within a country and the increasing level of volunteerism; the rate of volunteering increases in the state when societies move from an agrarian economy with traditional values toward an industrial economy with secular-rational values 12 ; (b) the second factor is related to the structural values of the society: the level of volunteering is affected by the political system of the state, its experience with democracy, its ideology, its level of economic development, the income equality between citizens, and the age of ethnic structure of the society. 13, 14 The types of regime and state ideologies directly affect the understanding of volunteerism in the society; in liberal states, volunteering is embedded in the culture and has a very important political and economic role. 15 In corporatist regimes, volunteering is instrumental for the state that tends to work toward preserving it.…”

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confidence: 99%

Volunteering in the Arab World: Bringing Back People into Politics?

Haddad

2015

Democracy and Security

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This article analyzes the concept of volunteering in the Arab world. The main argument is that the nature of the Arab world in addition to the historical development of civil society directly affected the philosophy of volunteering in the region. Since civic services were not framed nor included in the national agendas of the state, this had a direct negative effect on the development of the act. However, due to social, economic, and political factors, this trend is changing: As of 2000, organizations and societies started to understand the importance of volunteering and its link to the social and economic revival of societies; Arab states started to encourage the act by providing the right legal and political environment. However, these different policies are not building democratic societies nor encouraging civic engagement. The article concludes with recommendations for how to bring people back into civic and political society as well as suggestions for future research.

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

Cited by 79 publications

References 26 publications

Religious vs Secular volunteering motivations: A study on European elders

Religious vs Secular volunteering motivations: A study on European elders

Valores humanos y voluntariado: Un estudio en personas mayores

Volunteering in the Arab World: Bringing Back People into Politics?

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