Role-Identity Salience, Purpose and Meaning in Life, and Well-Being among Volunteers

By P. Thoits. 2012

292 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. R. Hoye
2. K. Brown
3. Niamh McNamara
4. Clifford Stevenson
5. Matthew Nicholson
6. Arthur A. Stukas

In Sociology and Political Science

1. K. Flannelly
2. K. Galek
3. L. Aisbett
4. R. Hoye
5. K. Brown
6. Niamh McNamara
7. Clifford Stevenson
8. C. Ellison

Citations in the corpus

• Religion, Meaning and Purpose, and Mental Health (2015, background): “It is interesting that some research suggests that meaning and purpose also mediate the effects of role-identity salience on psychological well-being (Thoits, 2012).”
• The mental health benefits of community helping during crisis: Coordinated helping, community identification and sense of unity during the COVID‐19 pandemic (2021, background): “…it is these social aspects that appear to influence the relationships between helping behaviours and depression (Creaven, Healy, & Howard, 2018), through the generation of a sense of meaning (Thoits, 2012), of “mattering” to others (Piliavin, 2010), and social connectedness (Musick & Wilson, 2003).”
• Motivations to Volunteer and Their Associations With Volunteers’ Well-Being (2016, background): “Similarly, Thoits (2012) found that the effects of having a strong and salient role identity as a volunteer on well-being were mediated by feeling a greater sense of purpose and meaning in life, and again by a sense of mattering.”