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Title

Motivations and Benefits of Student Volunteering: Comparing Regular, Occasional, and Non-Volunteers in Five Countries

Author(s)

Ram A. Cnaan, University of PennsylvaniaFollow
Karen A. Smith, Victoria University of Wellington
Kirsten Holmes, Curtin University
Debbie Haski-Leventhal, University of New South Wales
Femida Handy, University of Pennsylvania
Jeffrey L. Brudney, Cleveland State University

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of this Version

9-2010

Abstract

Programs targeting student volunteering and service learning are aimed at encouraging civic behaviour among young people. This article reports on a large-scale international survey comparing volunteering among university students in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The data revealed high rates of student volunteering and the popularity of occasional volunteering. It also revealed that other young people were the main beneficiaries of students’ voluntary activities. Student volunteers were influenced by a mix of motivations and benefits, with differences on acontinuum of volunteer involvement between those volunteering regularly, those volunteering occasionally, and those not volunteering.

Comments

Smith, K., Holmes, K., Haski-Leventhal, D., Cnaan, R. A., Handy, F., & Brudney, J. L. (2010). Motivations and Benefits of Student Volunteering: Comparing Regular, Occasional, and Non-Volunteers in Five Countries. Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, 1(1) 65-81.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Keywords

Volunteering, Voluntary action, University students, Cross-cultural research

Recommended Citation

Cnaan, R. A., Smith, K. A., Holmes, K., Haski-Leventhal, D., Handy, F., & Brudney, J. L. (2010). Motivations and Benefits of Student Volunteering: Comparing Regular, Occasional, and Non-Volunteers in Five Countries. Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/spp_papers/153