The Prediction of Above-Average Participation in Volunteerism: A Test of the Theory of Planned Behavior and the Volunteers Functions Inventory in Older Australian Adults

In the present prospective study of 81 older volunteers from a nonprofit organization in Australia, the authors compared the predictive utility of I. Ajzen's (1988) theory of planned behavior with that of E. G. Clary and M. Snyder's (1991) functional approach to volunteering. The authors m...

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Published in:The Journal of social psychology 2005-04, Vol.145 (2), p.155-172
Main Authors: Greenslade, Jaimi H., White, Katherine M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Adult. Elderly
Adults
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
attitude-behavior relations
Attitudes
Australia
Behavior
Behavior. Attitude
Biological and medical sciences
Developmental psychology
Female
Forecasting
functional approach
Functional explanations
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Intention
Male
Middle Aged
Nonprofit making organizations
Nonprofit organizations
Older people
Participation
Personality Inventory
Planned behaviour theory
Predictive Value of Tests
Prosocial Behavior
Prospective Studies
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Regression Analysis
Researchers
Self Efficacy
Self report
Selfreport
Social Influences
Social psychology
Social services
Theory of planned behavior
Voluntary work
Volunteers
Volunteers - psychology
Welfare Services
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Summary:In the present prospective study of 81 older volunteers from a nonprofit organization in Australia, the authors compared the predictive utility of I. Ajzen's (1988) theory of planned behavior with that of E. G. Clary and M. Snyder's (1991) functional approach to volunteering. The authors mailed questionnaires to 385 volunteers in two waves of data collection. The first wave measured theory-of-planned-behavior variables and functional-approach variables. The second wave measured self-reported volunteering behavior for the previous month. Regression analyses supported both the theory of planned behavior and the functional approach; the theory of planned behavior accounted for a significantly larger proportion of variance in above-average participation in self-reported volunteerism. The findings of the present study provided some support for both the theory of planned behavior and the functional approach as models of self-reported volunteerism.
ISSN:0022-4545
1940-1183
DOI:10.3200/SOCP.145.2.155-172