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The Motivations to Volunteer

1999; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 8; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/1467-8721.00037

1467-8721

E. Gil Clary, Mark Snyder,

Youth Development and Social Support

Why do significant numbers of people engage in the unpaid helping activities known as volunteerism? Drawing on functional theorizing about the reasons, purposes, and motivations underlying human behavior, we have identified six personal and social functions potentially served by volunteering. In addition to developing an inventory to assess these motivational functions, our program of research has explored the role of motivation in the processes of volunteerism, especially decisions about becoming a volunteer in the first place and decisions about continuing to volunteer.