Table of Contents:
  • The importance of studying volunteering
  • What is volunteering?
  • Personality
  • Motives
  • Values, norms, and attitudes
  • Socio-economic resources
  • Time and health
  • Gender
  • Race
  • The life course: the early stages
  • The life course: the later stages
  • Social resources
  • Volunteer recruitment
  • Schools and congregations
  • Community, neighborhood, city, and region
  • Cross-national differences
  • Trends in volunteering
  • Volunteer tasks
  • The volunteer role
  • Citizenship and prosocial behavior
  • Occupation, income, and health
  • Conclusion.