Mujer y voluntariadomotivaciones para la participación
ISSN: 1132-0559
Year of publication: 1998
Volume: 7
Issue: 1
Pages: 169-180
Type: Article
More publications in: Psychosocial Intervention
Abstract
Woman and volunteerism: motivations to participate. Volunteerism is defined in this article as an important and sustained helping behaviour that is actively and deliberately sough out. A review of gender differences in helping behaviour and the conceptual frameworks are presented. The empiric goal is to check if there were differences between men and women in self-oriented and -other oriented motivations to be volunteer. A sample of 112 volunteers answered to the inventory of motivations of aids volunteerism. The results show that motivations between men and women do not differ. However, some differences have appeared depending on age.