Volunteerism research paper

I use a volunteer process model to organize a review of recent research on volunteerism, focusing mainly on journal articles reporting survey research results. Scholars from several different disciplines and countries have contributed to a body of work that is becoming more theoretically sophisticated and methodologically rigorous.

Drawing on relevant theoretical and empirical literatures, we identify features of efforts that are likely to produce intrinsically motivated other-oriented volunteers and those that may produce extrinsically motivated self-oriented volunteers.

“Volunteerism and Community Involvement” with the existing research literature. people to the broader motivating influences that lead adults to get involved. In the literature that rely on ext rinsic motivators to encourage service. We hope that our anal ytic will help move this debate toward a resolution.

A broad literature exists on general volunteerism as well as environmental volunteering, urban forestry volunteering, and even tree-planting volunteering.