Helping because you have to or helping because you want to?: Sustaining participation in service work from adolescence through young adulthood

Youth and Society

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 177-202

  Planty, Mike ^a   Bozick, Robert ^a   Regnier, Michael ^b  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b Berk and Associates

Author keywords

Community service; School programs; Volunteer; Young adulthood

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750451261     PISSN: 0044118X     EISSN: 15528499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0044118X06287961     Document Type: Article

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