The Relationship Between Confidence in Charitable Organizations and Volunteering Revisited Export

@article{citeulike:3443989, abstract = {Confidence in charitable organizations (charitable confidence) would seem to be an important prerequisite for philanthropic behavior. Previous research relying on cross-sectional data has suggested that volunteering promotes charitable confidence and vice versa. This research note, using new longitudinal panel data from the Netherlands, contradicts the suggestion generated by previous research. Volunteers indeed have more charitable confidence, but changes in one are not related to changes in the other. The authors identify generalized social trust and altruistic values as omitted variables that produce the previously observed relationship. The practical implication of this finding is that a decline in charitable confidence is unlikely to reduce volunteering. The theoretical implication is that volunteering is symbolic rather than instrumental. 10.1177/0899764008324516}, author = {Bekkers, Rene and Bowman, Woods}, citeulike-article-id = {3443989}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0899764008324516}, day = {21}, doi = {10.1177/0899764008324516}, journal = {Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly}, keywords = {volunteering, volunteering\_charitable\_confidence}, month = {October}, pages = {0899764008324516+}, posted-at = {2008-10-23 17:39:26}, priority = {2}, title = {The Relationship Between Confidence in Charitable Organizations and Volunteering Revisited}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0899764008324516}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3443989 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3443989 N2 - Confidence in charitable organizations (charitable confidence) would seem to be an important prerequisite for philanthropic behavior. Previous research relying on cross-sectional data has suggested that volunteering promotes charitable confidence and vice versa. This research note, using new longitudinal panel data from the Netherlands, contradicts the suggestion generated by previous research. Volunteers indeed have more charitable confidence, but changes in one are not related to changes in the other. The authors identify generalized social trust and altruistic values as omitted variables that produce the previously observed relationship. The practical implication of this finding is that a decline in charitable confidence is unlikely to reduce volunteering. The theoretical implication is that volunteering is symbolic rather than instrumental. 10.1177/0899764008324516 JF - Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly TI - The Relationship Between Confidence in Charitable Organizations and Volunteering Revisited SP - 0899764008324516 KW - volunteering KW - volunteering_charitable_confidence AU - Bekkers, Rene AU - Bowman, Woods PY - 2008/10/21/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0899764008324516 ER -