The Motivation to Volunteer: A Systemic Quality of Life Theory

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 183-200

  Shye, Samuel ^a,b,c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute   (Israel)

Author keywords

Action system theory; Facet theory; Functional approach; Motivation to volunteer; Multidimensional Scaling (MDS); Quality of life; Smallest Space Analysis (SSA); Systemic quality of life; Volunteering

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL THEORY; VOLUNTARY APPROACH;

EID: 77955845333     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-009-9545-3     Document Type: Article

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