Motivation to volunteer by older adults: a test of competing measurement models

Article Abstract:

Two samples of older adults who are also active in volunteer work were used in analyzing four measurement models of the structure of motivation to volunteer. Both the six-factor and the 2nd-order factor models gained qualified support from the use of the Volunteer Functions Inventory. However, the six-factor model of motivation to volunteer, with factors referring to values, enhancement, career, protective, understanding, and social, proved to be differentially related to demographic factors and the quantity of time spent volunteering for an organization in the past year.

Research, Models, Volunteerism

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Goal-directed memory: The role of cognitive control in older adults' emotional mercury

Article Abstract:

Older adults recruit cognitive control processes, to strengthen positive and diminish negative information in memory. Three experiments were conducted, the first one stated that older adults engaged in more elaborative processing when retrieving positive memories than when retrieving negative memories, while the second stated that older elders who did well on tasks involving cognitive control were more likely than those doing poorly to favor positive pictures in memory.

Analysis, Cognitive psychology

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Age and motives for volunteering: testing Hypotheses derived from socioemotional selectivity theory

Article Abstract:

A meta-analysis of the relations between age and volunteer motives was used to test the hypotheses derived from socioemotional selectivity theory regarding the effects of age on these volunteer motives. Multiple regression analyses revealed that as age increases, career and understanding volunteer motives decrease and social volunteer motives increase. The results were discussed in the context of age-differential and age-similarity perspectives on volunteer motivation.

Aging, Influence, Aging (Biology)

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