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Source: Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
Resulting in 3 citations.
1. Caputo, Richard K.
Religious Capital and Intergenerational Transmission of Volunteering as Correlates of Civic Engagement
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 38,6 (December 2009): 983-1002.
Also: http://nvs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/38/6/983
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Sage Publications
Keyword(s): Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Religious Influences; Sociability/Socialization/Social Interaction; Social Capital; Volunteer Work

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Using a subsample of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97), this study (N = 2,471) provides evidence in support of social capital and socialization theories. Intergenerational transmission of civic engagement activities was found to occur through mechanisms such as parental religiosity and voluntarism. Using multinomial logistic regression analysis, correlates of four types of civic engagement were examined: mixed motivation voluntarism (voluntary participation in activist and nonactivist activities, n = 401), exclusively activist (n = 109), exclusive voluntarism (n = 652), and as the referent non–civic minded (no voluntary participation in either activist or nonactivist activities, n = 1,309). Parental voluntarism, socialization, religious participation, education, and presence of children were found to be robust predictors of mixed motivation voluntarism; parental devotion, presence of children, and race/ethnicity, of exclusive activism; and parental religious affiliation and fundamentalism, socialization, and religious participation, self-perceived sense of trustfulness, presence of children, and race/ethnicity of exclusive voluntarism.
Bibliography Citation
Caputo, Richard K. "Religious Capital and Intergenerational Transmission of Volunteering as Correlates of Civic Engagement." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 38,6 (December 2009): 983-1002.
2. Caputo, Richard K.
Women as Volunteers and Activists
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 26,2, (June 1997): 156-174
Cohort(s): Young Women
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keyword(s): Social Roles; Volunteer Work; Women

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Data drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience, Young Women's Cohort (N = 5,159) are used to explore characteristics associated with the likelihood of female volunteers engaging in activities to change social conditions & with the likelihood of female activists being volunteers. Results of logistic regression analysis suggest that volunteers are more likely to be activists to the extent that they perceive what they do as making a difference. Furthermore, they are likely to be found in organizations reflecting their own affinity for activism. Work decreases the extent to which women volunteer but does not affect their propensity for activism. Prior volunteer experience partially offsets decreased time devoted to voluntarism due to work. Implications regarding the relationship between voluntarism & activism are discussed, concluding with suggestions for promoting voluntary activism in general. 4 Tables, 2 Appendixes, 48 References. Adapted from the source document. (Copyright 1997, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.)
Bibliography Citation
Caputo, Richard K. "Women as Volunteers and Activists." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 26,2, (June 1997): 156-174.
3. Rotolo, Thomas
Wilson, John
Effects of Children and Employment Status on the Volunteer Work of American Women
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 36,3 (September 2007): 487-503
Cohort(s): Young Women
Publisher: Sage Publications
Keyword(s): Child Care; Children; Discrimination; Economics of Gender; Employment; Fertility; Housework/Housewives; Volunteer Work

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Competing demands from work and family make it difficult for women to do volunteer work. An analysis of data from the Young Women's Cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey (1978-1991) shows that homemakers are more likely to volunteer than are fulltime workers, followed by part-time workers. Mothers of school-age children are the most likely to volunteer, followed by childless women and mothers of young children. Mothers of school-age children are even more likely to volunteer if they are homemakers, and mothers of pre-school children are even less likely to volunteer if they work fulltime.
Bibliography Citation
Rotolo, Thomas and John Wilson. "Effects of Children and Employment Status on the Volunteer Work of American Women." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 36,3 (September 2007): 487-503.