Deltagelse i frivilligt arbejde og tidsforbrug på frivilligt arbejde

Abstract

Ifolge ressourceteorien om frivilligt arbejde er personer med mange personlige, sociale og kulturelle ressourcer mere tilbojelige til at deltage i frivilligt arbejde og bruger mere tid pa det. I denne artikel viser jeg imidlertid ved hjaelp af en to-dele-model, som mindre hyppigt anvendes i den sociologiske frivillighedsforskning sammenlignet med Tobit-modellen, at to af de mest centrale ressource-indikatorer, uddannelse og hyppig kontakt med medlem-mer af ens sociale netvaerk, har positive effekter pa sandsynligheden for deltagelse, men ikke pavirker tidsforbruget givet at man deltager. Eftersom analysen viser, at to-dele-modellen, som adskiller deltagelses-beslutningen og tidsbeslutningen, stemmer bedre overens med data sammenlignet med Tobit-modellen, som antager en simultan beslutning, er der formodentlig snarere tale om to beslutninger, som skyldes forskellige faktorer. Resultaterne af analysen indikerer, at deltagelsesbeslut-ningen afhaenger af hvor mange ressourcer individet har, mens tidsbeslutningen snarere afhaenger af hvor meget tid personen har til radighed, nar der tages hensyn til arbejds- og familieliv. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Hans-Peter Y. Qvist: Participation in Volunteering and Time Use for Volunteering: Two Sides of the Same Coin? According to the resource theory of volunteering, people with many personal, social, and cultural resources are more likely to participate in volunteering and spend more time on it than people with fewer resources. In this article, however, I show that two of the most central resource indicators education and frequent contact with members of one’s social network, have positive effects on the probability of participation, but do not affect time use given participation. I do this by using a two-part model, rather than Tobit-models, which are the most often used in sociological research on volunteering. The two-part model, which separates the decision to participate from the decision about how much time to spend, fits the data better than the Tobit-model, which assumes one simultaneous decision. This is probably because different factors explain the two decisions. The results of the analysis indicate that the decision to participate is dependent on the amount of resources the individual possesses, while the time decision is dependent on how much time is available to the individual when considering work and family life. Keywords: volunteering, time use, Tobit-model, two-part model, selection model.