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  • What predicts Australian university students’ intentions to volunteer their time for community service?

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    Hyde, Melissa K
    Knowles, Simon R
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    Hyde, Melissa K.
    Year published
    2013
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    University students represent one target population with great potential to serve as volunteers. The primary focus on describing the characteristics of students who choose to volunteer, however, has resulted in limited understanding of the psychosocial factors impacting on students' decisions to volunteer. To bridge this gap, we used an extension of a well-known theoretical framework, the theory of planned behaviour (TPB), to predict students' intentions to volunteer for community service. Using content and thematic analysis, we explored also students' motivations and constraints for volunteering. Students (N?=?235; M ...
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    University students represent one target population with great potential to serve as volunteers. The primary focus on describing the characteristics of students who choose to volunteer, however, has resulted in limited understanding of the psychosocial factors impacting on students' decisions to volunteer. To bridge this gap, we used an extension of a well-known theoretical framework, the theory of planned behaviour (TPB), to predict students' intentions to volunteer for community service. Using content and thematic analysis, we explored also students' motivations and constraints for volunteering. Students (N?=?235; M age?=?22.09 years) self-reported their attitude, normative influences, control perceptions, moral obligation, past behaviour, demographic characteristics, and intentions for volunteering via questionnaire. Regression analyses showed that the extended TPB explained 67% of the variance in students' volunteering intentions. In qualitative analyses, themes primarily represented the factors contributing to low efficacy for volunteering (e.g., time constraints). Control perceptions and perceived moral obligations related to volunteering represent important future targets to encourage student volunteering for organisations providing critical services for those most in need.
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    Journal Title
    Australian Journal of Psychology
    Volume
    65
    Issue
    3
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1111/ajpy.12014
    Copyright Statement
    © 2013 Australian Psychological Society. This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: What predicts Australian university students’ intentions to volunteer their time for community service?, Australian Journal of Psychology, Vol. 65(3), 2013, pp. 135-145, which has been published in final form at dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajpy.12014.
    Subject
    Cognitive and computational psychology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/55876
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