Dynamics of Volunteering in Older Europeans

Autor/inn/en	Hank, Karsten; Erlinghagen, Marcel
Titel	Dynamics of Volunteering in Older Europeans
Quelle	In: Gerontologist, 50 (2010) 2, S.170-178 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0016-9013
DOI	10.1093/geront/gnp122
Schlagwörter	Aging (Individuals); Foreign Countries; Social Environment; Volunteers; Older Adults; Surveys; Retirement; Regression (Statistics) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aging; Altern; Ausland; Soziales Umfeld; Freiwilliger; Älterer Erwachsener; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Pensionierung; Regression; Regressionsanalyse
Abstract	Purpose: To investigate the dynamics of volunteering in the population aged 50 years or older across 11 Continental European countries. Design and Methods: Using longitudinal data from the first 2 waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, we run multivariate regressions on a set of binary-dependent variables indicating transitions from active volunteering to inactivity and vice versa. Results: Volunteer transitions were affected by both time-invariant individual resources and changes in individuals' resources. Moreover, we found that the societal context in which older persons live not only has a significant impact on the prevalence of volunteering at a given point in time but that the dynamics of volunteering also vary by country. Implications: Our study supports the notion of volunteering as an important productive aging activity and underlines the importance of both life-course and social context factors as determinants of volunteer dynamics at older ages. (As Provided).
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