标题：Effect of Religiosity on Volunteering and on the Types of Volunteering among Higher Education Students in a Cross-Border Central and Eastern European Region
期刊名称：Acta Universitatis Sapientiae : Social Analysis
印刷版ISSN：2069-7449
电子版ISSN：2248-0854
出版年度：2015
卷号：5
期号：2
页码：181-203
出版社：Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Scientia Publishing House
摘要：In this paper, we examine the effect of different dimensions of religiosity on students’ volunteering in a Central and Eastern European region called “Partium”. In the empirical part, we first examine through logistic regression what affects volunteering. Based on the literature review, we supposed that the religiosity of students (measured by several variables) positively affects volunteering, even if we control other variables. Our second hypothesis is that volunteering is more frequent among students from Romania and Ukraine than among those from Hungary due to their larger religious attendance. The third hypothesis is that the religiosity of students increases especially the probability of the traditional type of volunteering (where helping others is the most important motivation). The results showed that among religiosity measurements, participating in religious youth groups has the largest positive effect on volunteering, but if the social capital indicators are included in the regression models the effect of religiosity is disappearing. It is also proved that students from Romania and Ukraine volunteer more than students from Hungary, but the reason can be not just their larger religious attendance but other factors as well. Based on the motivations of volunteering, we created three factors, but we could not support that religious students are doing mostly traditional type of volunteering. There were neither clear-cut traditional (based on altruistic values) volunteering factors nor clear-cut new (career building) volunteering factors; the motivational background of religious students was mixed – as it is the case of the other students’ motivations.
关键词：religiosity; volunteering; motivations of volunteering; higher education students
