Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging, University of Mannheim, Building L13, 17, 68131 Mannheim, Germany.
Gerontologist. 2010 Apr;50(2):170-8. doi: 10.1093/geront/gnp122. Epub 2009 Aug 7.
To investigate the dynamics of volunteering in the population aged 50 years or older across 11 Continental European countries.
Using longitudinal data from the first 2 waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, we run multivariate regressions on a set of binary-dependent variables indicating transitions from active volunteering to inactivity and vice versa.
Volunteer transitions were affected by both time-invariant individual resources and changes in individuals' resources. Moreover, we found that the societal context in which older persons live not only has a significant impact on the prevalence of volunteering at a given point in time but that the dynamics of volunteering also vary by country.
Our study supports the notion of volunteering as an important productive aging activity and underlines the importance of both life-course and social context factors as determinants of volunteer dynamics at older ages.
调查 11 个欧洲大陆国家 50 岁及以上人群中志愿服务的动态变化。
利用欧洲健康、老龄化和退休调查的前两个波次的纵向数据，我们对一系列二元因变量进行多元回归分析，这些因变量表示从积极参与志愿服务到不参与志愿服务和反之的转变。
志愿者的转变受到个体资源的时间不变因素和个体资源变化的影响。此外，我们发现，老年人所处的社会环境不仅对特定时间点的志愿服务流行率有重大影响，而且志愿服务的动态变化也因国家而异。
我们的研究支持将志愿服务视为一种重要的生产性老龄化活动的观点，并强调了生命历程和社会环境因素作为老年志愿者动态变化决定因素的重要性。
