A Cross-Cultural Examination of Student Volunteering: Is It All About Resume Building?
A Cross-Cultural Examination of Student Volunteering: Is It All About Resume Building?
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DOI：
10.1177/0899764009344353
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发表时间：
2010-06-01
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Zrinscak, Sinisa
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作者：
Handy, Femida;Cnaan, Ram A.;Zrinscak, Sinisa
本研究采用志愿服务的功利主义观点作为出发点：我们认为大学生志愿服务的动机是职业提升和就业前景。我们假设，在那些国家，志愿服务信号的学生积极的特点，并有助于促进他们的职业生涯，他们的志愿者参与将更高。此外，不管志愿服务的信号价值如何，那些出于功利原因的志愿者更有可能成为志愿者，但会表现出较少的时间密集型志愿服务。使用来自12个国家（n = 9，482）的调查数据，我们检验了与志愿者动机，志愿者参与和国家差异相关的假设。研究结果表明，有动机的学生志愿者建立自己的简历不志愿者比其他动机的学生。然而，在志愿服务具有积极信号价值的国家，志愿服务率要高得多。正如预期的那样，以简历建设为动机的学生志愿服务的强度较低。
This research adopts the utilitarian view of volunteering as a starting point: we posit that for an undergraduate student population volunteering is motivated by career enhancing and job prospects. We hypothesize that in those countries where volunteering signals positive characteristics of students and helps advance their careers, their volunteer participation will be higher. Furthermore, regardless of the signaling value of volunteering, those students who volunteer for utilitarian reasons will be more likely to volunteer but will exhibit less time-intensive volunteering. Using survey data from 12 countries (n = 9,482), we examine our hypotheses related to motivations to volunteer, volunteer participation, and country differences. Findings suggest that students motivated to volunteer for building their resumes do not volunteer more than students with other motives. However, in countries with a positive signaling value of volunteering, volunteering rates are significantly higher. As expected, students motivated by resume building motivations have a lower intensity of volunteering.