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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"volunteer work"”.
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Determinants of Volunteer Work Participation by Married Women
… investigate the determinants of participation in volunteer work by married women and (2) to investigate the determinants of the extent of participation of those women who do volunteer. Specific objectives were: (1) to determine the factors influencing married women's participation in volunteer …
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Volunteering as a Source of Conflict or Enrichment for Work: the Role of Employer Support
… studies have explored the relationship between work and family, few have examined the connection between work and community, leaving a gap in our understanding of the work-nonwork relationship. Drawing from ecological systems theory and conservation of resources theory, this study proposes …
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Men who Care: men’s motivations in taking up positions in community mobilisation organizations in Gugulethu to improve the public healthcare system
… systems that may try do social development work in SA. There is a great opportunity to include more men in community mobilisation (CM) work and health systems strengthening programs in SA and beyond. Historically, volunteer work, including CM has been seen as a job for women. There are fewer …
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"""Everybody Here Used to Be Somebody"": Recapturing Self-Continuity in a Retirement Town"
… limited opportunities. A wide range of club and volunteer activities, not specifically geared toward the achievement of self-continuity, enable the residents to repeatedly engage themselves in biographically meaningful activities and social environments. A sense of a perduring self thus sustained …
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Perceptions of Individual Experiences in a Service Learning Course
… understanding of the recipients of the service work? 2. Are the perceptions of the students as to their desire to perform volunteer work in the future affected by service learning experiences? 3. How do students perceive the usefulness of the service learning curriculum as to linking classroom …
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What motivates college students to volunteer? using the Volunteer Functions Inventory.
… motivates college students to participate in volunteer work. The Volunteer Functions Inventory was used to have students rate their beliefs about what would influence them to volunteer. A sample of 184 subjects (67 male & 115 female, two participants did not disclose their gender) were …
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Language Gain During Arabic Study Abroad: A Case Study of a Semester Abroad in Amman, Jordan
… setting daily or weekly language goals, doing volunteer work, having clear and reasonable language learning expectations, understanding the need to get out of one's comfort zone, and being aware of the resources available are the best factors that positively affected the students' language …
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Spiritual Transformation in Prison
… prison offers religious programs, mostly through volunteer work, and studies suggest that these programs are temporarily effective. While such programs have not been empirically proven to prevent recidivism in the long term, spirituality can help prisoners adjust to life in prison and often …
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Rozvoj lidských zdrojů v projektu Fusion
… good leader. It also addresses the issue of teamwork; what is a team, what are the characteristics of a successful team, and what causes a team to fail in its task. In addition, the thesis also looks at volunteer work; who is a volunteer, what is the volunteer's role in an organization, and what …
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How the University through its Police Student Volunteer scheme helped develop employability skills to prepare students for a career in the police service.
… through to the Advance HE Student Success Framework Series. Whilst student and graduate employability is a key area of development for universities and despite an increase in research in this area there has not been a ‘one size fits all’ model, and indeed there is a tendency for a more localised …
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Making Good: An Exploratory Study of the Socialization, Identity, and Sensemaking of Mission Trip Volunteers
<p>This research explored how mission trip volunteers assume various roles throughout their volunteer experience. By seeing the various roles that emerge in mission volunteer work, the identities that they construct based upon these roles are revealed. Discovering the ways in which these roles and …
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A retrospective field experience : a reflexive journey through day-to-day work with the 'street children' at Street Universe
… of a nine-week internship and post-internship volunteer work at Street Universe, a local Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) working with 'street children' living in Cape Town's city centre and surrounds. It touches on two main topics, 'street children' and the NGO. Although I did not work …
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Nature and well-being : building social and emotional capital through environmental volunteering
… interaction between well-being and environmental volunteering. Focusing on five case study groups across Scotland, the emotional, social and physical well-being impacts of active environmental volunteer work are examined. Through an extensive ethnographic approach incorporating in-depth …
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The Rise of a Hispanic Enclave in Davidson County, Tennessee
… within Davidson County, Tennessee through fieldwork, in-depth interviews with immigrants, volunteer work with Hispanic organizations, and census data. It suggests that the rise of this enclave, complete with Hispanic cultures, businesses, organizations, and churches, is interfering with the …
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The person inside the nurse : the professional socialization of baccalaureate nursing students
… and faculty members from the school ofnursing volunteered as participants. G. Kelly's (1955) Personal Construct Theory provided the framework to determine awareness and constructed meanings. A reflective tool, called LifeMapping, was adapted and utilized to relate student experiences within …
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Investigating relationships between women's moods and their menstrual cycles - a multimethod study
… level, vocation, exercise and participation in volunteer work or hobbies defines these groups to some degree. The qualitative data supported these findings and indicated the impact of menstrual cycle related moods on women’s daily functioning. The study concludes that menstrual cycle related …
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Counselling survivors of crime: the psychological impact on volunteers
… positive psychological impacts on victim support volunteers who counsel survivors of crime as part of the Victim Empowerment Programme (VEP). A qualitative, multiple case study research design was employed. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 Cape Town based participants who are …
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Enhancing the Well-being of Older Adults and Young Adults with Developmental Disabilities through Participation in an Intergenerational Community Garden: Participatory Action Research
… loneliness in young adults through inclusion in volunteer work; however, this has been on an intermittent basis and the need for meaningful relationships remains.</p> <p>Analyses of the data revealed ways to enlist the wisdom and knowledge of older adults to enhance the well-being of young adults …
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The Employed Versus the Nonemployed Mother: the Effects on the Seventh-day Adventist Family in Southwestern Michigan
… employed or the number of hours they spent in volunteer work each week.</p> <p>In this ex-post facto study the data were studied statistically by Chi-square analysis to compare the frequencies of the various responding groups. The results indicated that sixteen of the one hundred and twelve …
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Case Studies of Postsecondary College Students with Learning Disabilities
… a community college in Northern Virginia and volunteered to participate in this study. Out of the ten, two students were selected for this research study. These students were interviewed using a two-part questionnaire (Appendix C). The questionnaire included significant factors and variables …
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