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The role of religious networks and other factors in types of volunteer work
Author(s) -
Grønbjerg Kirsten A.,
Never Brent
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
nonprofit management and leadership
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.844
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1542-7854
pISSN - 1048-6682
DOI - 10.1002/nml.34
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , faith , telephone survey , work (physics) , volunteer work , volunteer , sociology , public relations , social psychology , psychology , political science , business , marketing , mechanical engineering , population , philosophy , engineering , biology , agronomy , demography , theology
In view of current efforts to strengthen volunteering and promote the faith‐based provision of socialservices in the United States, we examine both the underlying complexity of volunteering and who performsparticular types of volunteer work. This paper, drawing on a telephone interview survey of 526 randomly selectedIndiana residents, considers whether religious involvement helps explain engagement in different types ofvolunteer work independent of such other contributing factors as family status, socioeconomic status, andcommunity attachment. We find that religious involvement plays an independent role, but only for certain types ofvolunteer work.