Volunteerism is a form of prosocial behavior that involves a freely chosen decision to commit
a sustained amount of time and effort to helping another person, group, or cause, typically …

In this chapter, we examine volunteerism as a form of helping and prosocial action, drawing
on a program of research that examines the psychological factors motivating people to …

Why do significant numbers of people engage in the unpaid helping activities known as
volunteerism? Drawing on functional theorizing about the reasons, purposes, and …

This chapter presents a conceptual model of the process of volunteerism that articulates its
antecedents, experiences, and consequences. Further, the authors review a program of …

Community service often involves sustained prosocial actions by individuals. This article
focuses on one kind of such actions, volunteerism. Volunteerism involves long–term …

Volunteerism and community involvement have been demonstrated to offer benefits both to
communities and to volunteers themselves. However, not every method to encourage these …

Given that volunteers perform a diverse range of behaviors aimed at helping distinct causes,
a more nuanced understanding of how types of volunteer behaviors are similar and different …

One important variant of solidary benefit behavior is organized volunteerism1—freely
chosen, sustained behavior that is of benefit to others, that requires some sacrifice of …

This analytic review focuses on theory and research on volunteerism. First, we define
volunteerism as freely chosen helping activities that extend over time and that are often …

Every year, millions of people all over the world volunteer and devote substantial amounts of
their time and energy to helping others, eg providing companionship to the elderly, tutoring …