Sense of Community and Being a Volunteer Among the Young-Old

By M. Okun, J. Michel. 2006

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• To Volunteer or Not (2015, background): “Older adults who are socially integrated may have more opportunities to be informed about participation or directly asked to participate in volunteer activities (Okun & Michel, 2006).”
• Psychological Sense of Community (2014, unknown): “Public Health, Social Work, Community Development, and Urban Planning: Chaskin, 2001; Laverack, 2001; Minkler, Vasquez, Tajik, and Petersen, 2008; Ohmer, 2007; Okun and Michel, 2006; Omoto and Snyder, 2002.”
• Who volunteers? Constructing a hybrid theory (2011, unknown): “People who express a strong sense of community obligation (Okun and Michel, 2006) and have strong social and commmunal ties (Jones, 2006) tend to act out those commitments as volunteers.”