Applying theories of Institutional Helping to Informal Volunteering: Motives, role identity, and prosocial personality
By M. Finkelstein, Michael T. Brannick. 2007
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Dispositional variables from a volunteer model were shown to apply to informal volunteering. The model integrates two theories of the volunteer process: functional analysis and role identity theory. Undergraduates, ( N = 139), completed an informal volunteer inventory, and measures of motives, role identity, and prosocial personality. Two dimensions of informal volunteering: people-oriented and task-oriented were revealed. Both correlated with motives for helping and role identity. The personality dimension of Helpfulness was associated with both Informal Volunteering - People (IVP) and Informal Volunteering - Task (IVT), while Other-oriented Empathy correlated only with IVP. This study is the first to demonstrate the applicability of a model of formal volunteering to ongoing informal helping. Variables heretofore conceptualized as describing individuals within organizations, are seen as equally important in initiating and sustaining informal helping.
Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science
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- A Person-Environment Fit Approach to Volunteerism: Volunteer Personality Fit and Culture Fit as Predictors of Affective Outcomes (2008, background): “The more people associate themselves with a particular role, the more they identify with that role (eg, Finkelstein & Brannick, 2007 ; Finkelstein et al, 2005 ; Grube & Piliavin, 2000 ; Penner et al, 1997 ).”