Helping Individuals or Group Members? The Role of Individual and Collective Identification in AIDS Volunteerism

By Bernd Simon, Stefan Stürmer, K. Steffens. 2000

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Subfields: Infectious Diseases, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The volunteer stages and transitions model: Organizational socialization of volunteers (2008, background): “, 1971) and increase organizational identification of volunteers with their organization (Simon et al., 2000).”
Self and social identity. (2002, background): “At the behavioral level, group commitment is usually associated with prosocial behavior, such as volunteering to support group members who suffer from illness (e.g., Simon et al. 2000) or helping colleagues at work (Ellemers et al. 1998).”
Through a Glass Darkly: Information Technology Design, Identity Verification, and Knowledge Contribution in Online Communities (2007, background): “Individuals may engage in more pro-social behavior (i.e., knowledge contribution) in order to benefit the group and to be perceived positively by group members (e.g., Constant et al. 1996, Ellemers et al. 2004, Simon et al. 2000).”
Collective Action as the Material Expression of Opinion‐Based Group Membership (2009, background): “…Breinlinger (1995) and the activist groups such as Gray Panthers, gay movement, AIDS volunteer service organization, and fat acceptance movement investigated by Simon et al. (1998, 2000) and Stürmer, Simon, Loewy, and Jörger (2003), can be regarded as directly emerging from opinion-based groups.”
Group Processes and Volunteering: Using Groups to Enhance Volunteerism (2009, background): “Simon, Strumer, and Steffens (2000) showed that the more a person has a collective identification with others, the more he or she will work and volunteer for members of the in-group.”
Opinion‐based group membership as a predictor of commitment to political action (2007, background): “collective behavioural intentions (Simon et al., 2000; Stürmer et al., 2003; Stürmer & Simon, 2004).”
Volunteer work and well-being. (2001, methodology): “For example, in 1984, 44 percent of a national sample reported that they had performed volunteer work for a church, charity, or other community group in the last year; in 1997, in answer to the same question, 58 percent reported volunteer service (Ladd 1999).1 Given these trends, social scientists’…”