Four Motives for Community Involvement

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Empirical study of motivators and barriers of teacher online knowledge sharing (2007, background): “This outcome supports Batson et al.'s (2002) suggestion that community involvement motives may help explain why people are willing to share”
Intentions to use social media in organizing and taking vacation trips (2011, methodology): “Wasko and Faraj (2005) IALTR3 – I use the contributions and comments of others about trips and destinations and, to some extent, feel an obligation to contribute as well Batson et al. (2002), Wasko & Faraj (2005) Access IACCESS1 – I have access to the technology needed to access these social media t”
Assessing Environmental Stewardship Motivation (2011, background): “Similarly consistent are the motives of egoism, altruism, collectivism, and principlism described by Batson, Ahmad, and Tsang (2002).”
How Teens Become Engaged in Youth Development Programs: The Process of Motivational Change in a Civic Activism Organization (2006, background): “Other research on civic activism suggests that this connection between one’s own cause and that of others can be powerful in motivating social action (Batson et al., 2002; Kieffer, 1984; Youniss & Yates, 1997).”
Dynamic changes in motivation in collaborative citizen-science projects (2012, background): “For all these reasons, and although the contribution of volunteers to the development of science has been well documented [11-14], their participation is often considered peripheral.”