National Context, Religiosity, and Volunteering: Results from 53 Countries
National Context, Religiosity, and Volunteering: Results from 53 Countries
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国情、宗教信仰和志愿服务：来自 53 个国家的结果
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2006
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N. D. de Graaf
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S. Ruiter;N. D. de Graaf
国家宗教背景在多大程度上影响志愿服务？宗教环境是否会影响宗教信仰与志愿服务之间的关系？为了回答这些问题，本研究提出了个体层面、背景层面和跨层面的互动假设。作者通过同时研究个人的宗教信仰、国家宗教背景及其对志愿服务的相互作用来检验假设，同时控制个人和背景水平上可能的混杂因素。根据对来自53个国家的数据的多层次分析，经常去教堂的人在志愿者工作中更加积极，虔诚的国家背景具有额外的积极影响。然而，在虔诚的国家中，世俗和宗教人士之间的差异比世俗国家的要小得多。在虔诚的国家，去教堂做礼拜与志愿服务几乎没有关系。此外，宗教志愿服务具有很强的溢出效应，这意味着宗教公民也会更多地为世俗组织服务。这种溢出效应对天主教徒的影响比对新教徒、非基督徒和非宗教个人的影响更强。
To what extent does the national religious context affect volunteering? Does a religious environment affect the relation between religiosity and volunteering? To answer these questions, this study specifies individual level, contextual level, and cross-level interaction hypotheses. The authors test the hypotheses by simultaneously studying the impact of religiosity of individuals, the national religious context, and their interplay on volunteering while controlling for possible confounding factors both at individual and contextual levels. Based on multilevel analyses on data from 53 countries, frequent churchgoers are more active in volunteer work and a devout national context has an additional positive effect. However, the difference between secular and religious people is substantially smaller in devout countries than in secular countries. Church attendance is hardly relevant for volunteering in devout countries. Furthermore, religious volunteering has a strong spillover effect, implying that religious citizens also volunteer more for secular organizations. This spillover effect is stronger for Catholics than for Protestants, non-Christians and nonreligious individuals.