VOLUNTEERING AND CHARITABLE GIVING - DO RELIGIOUS AND ASSOCIATIONAL TIES PROMOTE HELPING-BEHAVIOR

Authors
JACKSON EF BACHMEIER MD WOOD JR CRAFT EA
Citation
Ef. Jackson et al., VOLUNTEERING AND CHARITABLE GIVING - DO RELIGIOUS AND ASSOCIATIONAL TIES PROMOTE HELPING-BEHAVIOR, Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly, 24(1), 1995, pp. 59-78
Citations number
61
Categorie Soggetti
Social Issues
Journal title
Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly → ACNP
ISSN journal
08997640
Volume
24
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
59 - 78
Database
ISI
SICI code
0899-7640(1995)24:1<59:VACG-D>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
Most research on helping behavior has concentrated on situational and personality effects on the decision to provide emergency aid; less wor k has dealt with social determinants of common, nonemergency helping. We investigated the effects of religious and associational ties on sec ular volunteering and charitable giving in a sample of 800 Indiana res idents. We found that belonging to a range of voluntary associations i ncreases volunteering and giving. Participation in church groups also increases both forms of secular helping, but attending church does not .