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Motivations and Benefits of Student Volunteering: Comparing Regular, Occasional, and Non-Volunteers in Five Countries

Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research

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Title Motivations and Benefits of Student Volunteering: Comparing Regular, Occasional, and Non-Volunteers in Five Countries
 
Creator Smith, Karen
Holmes, Kirsten
Haski-Leventhal, Debbie
Cnaan, Ram A
Handy, Femida
Brudney, Jeffrey L
 
Subject Volunteering; Voluntary action; University students; Cross-cultural research; Motivations / Bénévolat; Action bénévole; Étudiants universitaires; Recherches interculturelles; Motivations
 
Description Programmes targeting student volunteering and service learning are part of encouraging civic behaviour amongst young people. This article reports on a large scale international survey comparing volunteering amongst tertiary students at universities in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. The data revealed high rates of student volunteering and the popularity of occasional or episodic volunteering. There were strong commonalities in student volunteering behaviour, motivations and benefits across the five Western predominately English-speaking countries. Altruism and self-orientated career motivations and benefits were most important to students; however volunteering and non-volunteering students differed in the relative value they attached to volunteering for CV-enhancement and social factors.
 
Publisher CCSP Press, Simon Fraser University
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2010-10-26
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
research-article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.anserj.ca/anser/index.php/cjnser/article/view/2
http://hdl.handle.net/10515/sy5kk94h1
10.22230/cjnser.2010v1n1a2
 
Source Canadian journal of nonprofit and social economy research; Vol 1, No 1 (2010)
1920-9355
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.anserj.ca/anser/index.php/cjnser/article/view/2/3