Factors Affecting Volunteerism among Older Adults

By L. Choi. 2003

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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Sense of Community and Being a Volunteer Among the Young-Old (2006, background): “Controlling for other variables, there is mixed evidence pertaining to whether age is inversely related to being a volunteer (Choi, 2003; Herzog & Morgan, 1993; Okun, 1993; Soo & GongSoog, 1998).”
Post-retirement work: The individual determinants of paid and volunteer work (2008, unknown): “Demographic variables According to action theory, when people envisage their life in retirement, choices of activity, goals and expected events are influenced by the realities or ‘hard data’ of their current situation. Past researchers have recognized this in their focus on demographic variables as ”
To Volunteer or Not (2015, background): “…emerge (Musick & Wilson, 2008; Warburton & Stirling, 2007) through the construction of a unified theory by combining a number of predictors associated with volunteer behavior in older people (i.e., Chambré, 1987; Choi, 2003; McNamara & Gonzales, 2011; Sundeen, Raskoff, & Garcia, 2007; Tang, 2008).”
Attachment, caregiving, and volunteering: Placing volunteerism in an attachment‐theoretical framework (2005, background): “Scores of studies have dealt with volunteerism (e.g., Choi, 2003; Snyder & Clary, 2004), but to date, there have been relatively few theoretical analyses linking volunteerism to broad psychological theories (see Penner; Snyder, Clary, & Stukas, 2000, for preliminary efforts).”
The participation of older Europeans in volunteer work (2006, background): “…volunteers are more likely than non-volunteers to have high socio-economic status, to be married, to have a religious affiliation, to be in paid work, to evaluate their health highly, to have large social networks, and to have a past history of volunteering (Warburton et al. 2001 : 588; Choi 2003).”
A meta-analysis of the effect of education on social capital (2009, background): “hoi, L.H. (2003) Factors Affecting Volunteerism Among Older Adults.”
Education and social capital: empirical evidence from microeconomic analyses (2010, unknown): “Alesina & La Ferrara (2000a) 8 1990 Alesina & Ferrara (2000b) 2 1990 Alesina & La Ferrara (2002) 8 1974-1994 Brehm & Rahn (1997) 1 1972-1994 Brehm & Rahn (1997) 1 1972-1994 Choi (2003) 1 1993 Claibourn & Martin (2000) 4 1982 Claibourn & Martin (2000) 4 1982 Glaeser & Sacerdote (2001) 1 1972-1998 Cut”