title: Predisposed to Volunteer? Personality Traits and Different Forms of Volunteering
creator: Ackermann, Kathrin
subject: ddc-320
subject: 320 Political science
description: In this article, we evaluate the psychological basis of different forms of volunteering. To date, our knowledge about the relationship between personality and volunteering as an important facet of the social fabric is limited. Applying the Five-Factor Model of Personality (Big Five), we scrutinize this relationship in a comprehensive manner. We consider formal and informal volunteering as well as online volunteering as a new form of social participation. Empirically, we analyze a representative population sample of Switzerland using logistic regression models. We find that extraversion is the most consistent driver of volunteering. The effects of the remaining traits differ across the forms of volunteering.  additional analyses indicate that situational factors may moderate these relationships.
publisher: Sage
date: 2019
type: Article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/28677/1/10.1177_0899764019848484.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00028677
identifier: https://doi.org/10.1177/0899764019848484
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-286776
identifier:   Ackermann, Kathrin  (2019) Predisposed to Volunteer? Personality Traits and Different Forms of Volunteering.  Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 48 (6).  pp. 1119-1142.  ISSN 0899-7640 (Druck-Ausg.); 1552-7395 (Online-Ausg.)     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/28677/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng