Religious Capital and Intergenerational Transmission of Volunteering as Correlates of Civic Engagement Export

@article{citeulike:3444000, abstract = {Using a subsample of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97), this study (N = 2,471) provides evidence in support of social capital and socialization theories. Intergenerational transmission of civic engagement activities was found to occur through mechanisms such as parental religiosity and voluntarism. Using multinomial logistic regression analysis, correlates of four types of civic engagement were examined: mixed motivation voluntarism (voluntary participation in activist and nonactivist activities, n = 401), exclusively activist (n = 109), exclusive voluntarism (n = 652), and as the referent non-civic minded (no voluntary participation in either activist or nonactivist activities, n = 1,309). Parental voluntarism, socialization, religious participation, education, and presence of children were found to be robust predictors of mixed motivation voluntarism; parental devotion, presence of children, and race/ethnicity, of exclusive activism; and parental religious affiliation and fundamentalism, socialization, and religious participation, self-perceived sense of trustfulness, presence of children, and race/ethnicity of exclusive voluntarism. 10.1177/0899764008323990}, author = {Caputo, Richard}, citeulike-article-id = {3444000}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0899764008323990}, day = {21}, doi = {10.1177/0899764008323990}, journal = {Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly}, keywords = {civil\_society, volunteering\_intergenerational}, month = {October}, pages = {0899764008323990+}, posted-at = {2008-10-26 12:14:48}, priority = {2}, title = {Religious Capital and Intergenerational Transmission of Volunteering as Correlates of Civic Engagement}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0899764008323990}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3444000 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3444000 N2 - Using a subsample of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97), this study (N = 2,471) provides evidence in support of social capital and socialization theories. Intergenerational transmission of civic engagement activities was found to occur through mechanisms such as parental religiosity and voluntarism. Using multinomial logistic regression analysis, correlates of four types of civic engagement were examined: mixed motivation voluntarism (voluntary participation in activist and nonactivist activities, n = 401), exclusively activist (n = 109), exclusive voluntarism (n = 652), and as the referent non-civic minded (no voluntary participation in either activist or nonactivist activities, n = 1,309). Parental voluntarism, socialization, religious participation, education, and presence of children were found to be robust predictors of mixed motivation voluntarism; parental devotion, presence of children, and race/ethnicity, of exclusive activism; and parental religious affiliation and fundamentalism, socialization, and religious participation, self-perceived sense of trustfulness, presence of children, and race/ethnicity of exclusive voluntarism. 10.1177/0899764008323990 JF - Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly TI - Religious Capital and Intergenerational Transmission of Volunteering as Correlates of Civic Engagement SP - 0899764008323990 KW - civil_society KW - volunteering_intergenerational AU - Caputo, Richard PY - 2008/10/21/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0899764008323990 ER -