TY - JOUR
T1 - A cross-cultural examination of student volunteering
T2 - Is it all about résumé building?
AU - Handy, Femida
AU - Cnaan, Ram A.
AU - Hustinx, Lesley
AU - Kang, Chulhee
AU - Brudney, Jeffrey L.
AU - Haski-Leventhal, Debbie
AU - Holmes, Kirsten
AU - Meijs, Lucas C P M
AU - Pessi, Anne Birgitta
AU - Ranade, Bhagyashree
AU - Yamauchi, Naoto
AU - Zrinscak, Sinisa
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - 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 résumés 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 résumé building motivations have a lower intensity of volunteering.
AB - 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 résumés 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 résumé building motivations have a lower intensity of volunteering.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77951995014&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0899764009344353
DO - 10.1177/0899764009344353
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77951995014
SN - 0899-7640
VL - 39
SP - 498
EP - 523
JO - Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
JF - Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
IS - 3
ER -