By Robert A. Stebbins

Volunteering and its nonprofit agencies have in most cases been analyzed in fiscal phrases, with volunteering being often called "unpaid (productive) work". This monetary definition has been round a ways longer than that of volunteering conceived of as rest, that's mentioned because the volitional definition. via a long literature overview, this publication units out the theoretical and empirical contributions of the intense relaxation point of view to figuring out volunteer motivation. This moment procedure started greater than forty years in the past. It solutions the main motivational query of why humans interact in unpaid efficient paintings, hard or no longer. considering that during this notion money in money or in type isn't really an incentive to accomplish such paintings, what encourages humans to volunteer? the intense rest point of view, not like mainstream economics, can shed massive gentle in this query.

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0007 A Review of Research  Harrington and colleagues considered the relevance of Yoder’s work for their study of volunteers/amateurs at the Queensland 500 V8 SuperCar Race. They were surveyed about the nature of their volunteer activity within motorsport and their involvement in motorsport as amateurs. The authors found that these volunteers were career volunteers with a unique ethos setting them apart from both marginal volunteers and motorsport fans. They were also engaged in amateur motorsport related activity and participated in motorsport organizations, showing degrees of involvement in the social world of motorsport.

They suggest that aligning mandated community service with serious leisure might increase quality of experience, and provide an avenue for experiencing the rewards and benefits associated with civic participation. Alexandra Coghlan (2005) examined volunteering tourism. She concluded in her doctoral thesis that researchers describe the volunteer tourism experience as a form of serious leisure, with a focus on learning and contributing to a worthwhile cause. Other motives that have been associated with volunteering and tourism include escape, relaxation, relationship enhancement, self-development, building a personal power base, advancing a personal agenda, developing a career that leads to status or other rewards, interest in the subject matter, and an interest in helping the researcher.

Those involved in fund-raising, administration, delivery of programs or events). In the interviews Arai examined the experiences of these career volunteers, including the benefits they realized: opportunity to make a contribution, develop knowledge and skills, and form relationships. She also found that they faced several frustrations. 0007 A Review of Research  Arai and Pedlar (1997) found that citizen participation in community health planning leads to benefits associated with serious leisure and community building in general.

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