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  • Measuring Volunteerability and the Capacity to Volunteer among Non-volunteers: Implications for Social Policy

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    Haski-Leventhal, Debbie
    Meijs, Lucas CPM
    Lockstone-Binney, Leonie
    Holmes, Kirsten
    Oppenheimer, Melanie
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    Lockstone-Binney, Leonie
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    2018
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    As volunteering and its benefits gain global recognition, social policymakers can sustain and increase volunteering through social policy, legislation and other types of involvement. A key performance practice is to measure the rate of volunteering based on the percentage of the population that volunteer or the number of hours donated. The focus of this article, however, is on the capacity to volunteer by non‐volunteers as well as by volunteers. The concept and theory of volunteerability (an individual's ability to overcome related obstacles and volunteer, based on his or her willingness, capability and availability) offers ...
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    As volunteering and its benefits gain global recognition, social policymakers can sustain and increase volunteering through social policy, legislation and other types of involvement. A key performance practice is to measure the rate of volunteering based on the percentage of the population that volunteer or the number of hours donated. The focus of this article, however, is on the capacity to volunteer by non‐volunteers as well as by volunteers. The concept and theory of volunteerability (an individual's ability to overcome related obstacles and volunteer, based on his or her willingness, capability and availability) offers a richer understanding of how people can be assisted to overcome barriers to maximize their volunteer potential and thus increase volunteering. The article details the definitions and benefits of volunteering and covers examples of related social policy, as well as explaining the concept of volunteerability and how it can be measured using existing and new scales. Based on a mixed methods study in Australia, the article offers specific measures to examine the concept of volunteerability and reveals important differences between volunteers and non‐volunteers. The article also details major barriers to volunteering and how social policies can be developed to overcome them.
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    Journal Title
    SOCIAL POLICY & ADMINISTRATION
    Volume
    52
    Issue
    5
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12342
    Copyright Statement
    © 2018 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Measuring Volunteerability and the Capacity to Volunteer among Non-volunteers: Implications for Social Policy, Advanced Energy Materials, Volume52, Issue5, September 2018, Pages 1139-1167, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12342. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-828039.html)
    Subject
    Policy and administration
    Political science
    Sociology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/382947
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