一项大型分析显示,在欧洲,志愿服务对年龄较大、健康状况较差的志愿者的健康益处更大。

IF 3.7 2区 社会学 Q1 GERONTOLOGY
Arjen de Wit, Heng Qu, René Bekkers
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引用次数: 6

摘要

关于为志愿者做志愿服务对健康的好处,有大量的文献。这些健康优势可能因不同特征的志愿者群体而异。本研究旨在检验欧洲志愿者的志愿服务对健康的益处,并探讨志愿服务与健康之间的异质性关系。我们对来自6个小组调查的微观数据进行了大规模分析,涵盖了来自22个欧洲国家的267,212名受访者的952,026项观察结果。我们为数据协调而开发的代码提供开放访问。我们使用普通最小二乘、固定效应、第一差异和固定效应分位数回归来估计志愿活动及其变化与不同群体的自评健康之间的关系。我们的研究结果表明,志愿活动的变化与个人健康状况的变化之间存在着微小但始终如一的正相关。这种关联在老年人中更为明显。对于60岁及以上的受访者,志愿服务的个人内部变化与自我评估健康的变化显着相关。此外,对于健康状况较差的受访者来说,志愿服务的健康优势更大。这种优势在最低十分位数最大,并沿着健康分布逐渐下降。第一个十分位数的关联大小大约是第九个十分位数的关联大小的两倍。这些结果表明,志愿服务可能对社会中特定群体的健康更有益。从长远来看,志愿服务可以保护老年人和健康状况不佳的成年人免受健康状况下降的影响。补充信息:在线版本包含补充资料,可在10.1007/s10433-022-00691-5获得。
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The health advantage of volunteering is larger for older and less healthy volunteers in Europe: a mega-analysis.

The health advantage of volunteering is larger for older and less healthy volunteers in Europe: a mega-analysis.

The health advantage of volunteering is larger for older and less healthy volunteers in Europe: a mega-analysis.

The health advantage of volunteering is larger for older and less healthy volunteers in Europe: a mega-analysis.

There is a vast literature on the health benefits associated with volunteering for volunteers. Such health advantages are likely to vary across groups of volunteers with different characteristics. The current paper aims to examine the health advantages of volunteering for European volunteers and explore heterogeneity in the association between volunteering and health. We carry out a mega-analysis on microdata from six panel surveys, covering 952,026 observations from 267,212 respondents in 22 European countries. We provide open access to the code we developed for data harmonization. We use ordinary least squares, fixed effects, first difference, and fixed effect quantile regressions to estimate how volunteering activities and changes therein are related to self-rated health for different groups. Our results indicate a small but consistently positive association between changes in volunteering and changes in health within individuals. This association is stronger for older adults. For respondents 60 years and older, within-person changes in volunteering are significantly related to changes in self-rated health. Additionally, the health advantage of volunteering is larger for respondents in worse health. The advantage is largest at the lowest decile and gradually declines along the health distribution. The magnitude of the association at the first decile is about twice the magnitude of the association at the ninth decile. These results suggest that volunteering may be more beneficial for the health of specific groups in society. With small health advantages from year to year, volunteering may protect older and less healthy adults from health decline in the long run.

Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10433-022-00691-5.

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6.50
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7.90%
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72
期刊介绍: The European Journal of Ageing: Social, Behavioural and Health Perspectives is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the understanding of ageing in European societies and the world over. EJA publishes original articles on the social, behavioral and population health aspects of ageing and encourages an integrated approach between these aspects. Emphasis is put on publishing empirical research (including meta-analyses), but conceptual papers (including narrative reviews) and methodological contributions will also be considered. EJA welcomes expert opinions on critical issues in ageing. By stimulating communication between researchers and those using research findings, it aims to contribute to the formulation of better policies and the development of better practice in serving older adults. To further specify, with the term ''social'' is meant the full scope of social science of ageing related research from the micro to the macro level of analysis. With the term ''behavioural'' the full scope of psychological ageing research including life span approaches based on a range of age groups from young to old is envisaged. The term ''population health-related'' denotes social-epidemiological and public health oriented research including research on functional health in the widest possible sense.
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