نتایج جستجو برای: social volunteer activities

تعداد نتایج: 959549  

Journal: :The Gerontologist 2015
Suzanne L Cook

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY This study explores (a) whether retirees' formal volunteer experiences represent an extension of their career in the paid workforce; and (b) how this integration of life roles affects career self-concept, as interpreted through Donald Super's life-span, life-space theory of career development. DESIGN AND METHODS A survey was conducted involving a Canadian sample of 214 in...

Journal: :International journal of secondary education 2021

At present, the COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control situation is still very serious. This has brought new challenges to social practice activities in holiday of secondary vocational students. In order deepen understanding students their major enhance competitive advantage employment, it necessary guide participate practice. First all, this paper analyzes particularity school students’ trai...

2016
Kimiko Tomioka Norio Kurumatani Hiroshi Hosoi

BACKGROUND Population-based data examining the relationship between social participation (SP) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) are scarce. This study examined the cross-sectional relationship between SP and IADL in community-dwelling elderly persons. METHODS Self-administered questionnaires were mailed to 23 710 residents aged ≥65 years in Nara, Japan (response rate: 74.2%)....

2013
Linda P. Fried Michelle C. Carlson Sylvia McGill Teresa Seeman Qian-Li Xue Kevin Frick Erwin Tan Elizabeth K. Tanner Jeremy Barron Constantine Frangakis Rachel Piferi Iveris Martinez Tara Gruenewald Barbara K. Martin Laprisha Berry-Vaughn John Stewart Kay Dickersin Paul R. Willging George W. Rebok

BACKGROUND As the population ages, older adults are seeking meaningful, and impactful, post-retirement roles. As a society, improving the health of people throughout longer lives is a major public health goal. This paper presents the design and rationale for an effectiveness trial of Experience Corps™, an intervention created to address both these needs. This trial evaluates (1) whether senior ...

2017
Masashige Saito Naoki Kondo Jun Aida Ichiro Kawachi Shihoko Koyama Toshiyuki Ojima Katsunori Kondo

BACKGROUND We developed and validated an instrument to measure community-level social capital based on data derived from older community dwellers in Japan. METHODS We used cross-sectional data from the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study, a nationwide survey involving 123,760 functionally independent older people nested within 702 communities (i.e., school districts). We conducted explorato...

2016
Catherine Walshe Steven Dodd Matt Hill Nick Ockenden Sheila Payne Nancy Preston Guillermo Perez Algorta

BACKGROUND Clinical care alone at the end of life is unlikely to meet all needs. Volunteers are a key resource, acceptable to patients, but there is no evidence on care outcomes. This study aimed to determine whether support from a social action volunteer service is better than usual care at improving quality of life for adults in the last year of life. METHODS A pragmatic, multi-centre wait-...

Journal: :Journal of abnormal psychology 1974
P B Sutker

Demonstrating the effect of the volunteer factor on Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) profiles of addicts and nonaddicts, Gendreau and Gendreau suggested that previously reported MMPI differences between these two subject groups might well be explained by the "volunteer" status of the addict group. This article describes more thoroughly the unincarcerated addict sample, almost ...

Journal: :Personality & social psychology bulletin 2011
Louisa Pavey Tobias Greitemeyer Paul Sparks

According to self-determination theory, people have three basic psychological needs: relatedness, competence, and autonomy. Of these, the authors reasoned that relatedness need satisfaction is particularly important for promoting prosocial behavior because of the increased sense of connectedness to others that this engenders. In Experiment 1, the authors manipulated relatedness, autonomy, compe...

Journal: :Journal of health and social behavior 2005
Yunqing Li Kenneth F Ferraro

Does volunteer participation reduce depressive symptoms among older people? Does depression influence whether older people will volunteer? Might nonrandom attrition in a longitudinal study bias the relationship between volunteering and depression? This research addresses these questions with three-wave data from theAmericans' Changing Lives study. Multigroup structural equation models for compl...

Journal: :Geriatric nursing 2015
Greg K Shelley Carmen Castro Stanley G Cron

In this descriptive study, former and current volunteer ombudsmen (n = 65) completed an online survey and Chi-square analyses were used to determine group differences in order to examine the impact of internet-based communication on the recruitment and retention of volunteer long-term care ombudsmen. The results showed that the program's shift to internet-based recruitment and communication met...

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