The Effect of the Psychological Sense of Community on the Psychological Well-Being in Older Volunteers
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Pozzi, Maura
Marta, Elena
Marzana, Daniela
Gozzoli, Caterina
Ruggieri, Ruggero Andrisano
Abstract / Description
Ageing populations across Europe are increasing. Communities have an important role in not only engaging this segment of the population but also in helping them to make them feel “part of something” (local or global) in order to favour their psychological well-being. The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of volunteering and being connected in one’s community on well-being. The present paper will test an older volunteers’ psychological well-being model. 143 older volunteers completed measures of religiousness, sense of global responsibility, psychological sense of community, generativity, motivation to volunteer and a profile of mood states. Data show that a psychological sense of community has a key role in the study of older volunteerism due to its impact on well-being. Service agencies and administrations can develop campaigns to sustain older volunteerism in order to increase well-being and reduce social costs.
Keyword(s)
older volunteers motivation to volunteer psychological sense of community psychological well-being volunteerismPersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2014-11-28
Journal title
Europe's Journal of Psychology
Volume
10
Issue
4
Page numbers
598–612
Publisher
PsychOpen GOLD
Publication status
publishedVersion
Review status
peerReviewed
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Pozzi, M., Marta, E., Marzana, D., Gozzoli, C., & Ruggieri, R. A. (2014). The Effect of the Psychological Sense of Community on the Psychological Well-Being in Older Volunteers. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 10(4), 598–612. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v10i4.773
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Pozzi, Maura
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Marta, Elena
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Marzana, Daniela
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Gozzoli, Caterina
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Ruggieri, Ruggero Andrisano
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Date of first publication2014-11-28
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Abstract / DescriptionAgeing populations across Europe are increasing. Communities have an important role in not only engaging this segment of the population but also in helping them to make them feel “part of something” (local or global) in order to favour their psychological well-being. The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of volunteering and being connected in one’s community on well-being. The present paper will test an older volunteers’ psychological well-being model. 143 older volunteers completed measures of religiousness, sense of global responsibility, psychological sense of community, generativity, motivation to volunteer and a profile of mood states. Data show that a psychological sense of community has a key role in the study of older volunteerism due to its impact on well-being. Service agencies and administrations can develop campaigns to sustain older volunteerism in order to increase well-being and reduce social costs.en_US
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Publication statuspublishedVersion
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Review statuspeerReviewed
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CitationPozzi, M., Marta, E., Marzana, D., Gozzoli, C., & Ruggieri, R. A. (2014). The Effect of the Psychological Sense of Community on the Psychological Well-Being in Older Volunteers. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 10(4), 598–612. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v10i4.773
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ISSN1841-0413
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/916
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.1108
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychOpen GOLD
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Is version ofhttps://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v10i4.773
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Keyword(s)older volunteersen_US
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Keyword(s)motivation to volunteeren_US
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Keyword(s)psychological sense of communityen_US
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Keyword(s)psychological well-beingen_US
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Keyword(s)volunteerismen_US
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleThe Effect of the Psychological Sense of Community on the Psychological Well-Being in Older Volunteersen_US
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DRO typearticle
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Issue4
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Journal titleEurope's Journal of Psychology
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Page numbers598–612
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Volume10
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Visible tag(s)Version of Record