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Positive Emotions in Volunteerism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 April 2014

María Luisa Vecina Jiménez  and
Fernando Chacón Fuertes
María Luisa Vecina Jiménez*
Affiliation:
Complutense University Madrid
Fernando Chacón Fuertes
Affiliation:
Complutense University Madrid
*
Correspondence should be addressed to María Luisa Vecina, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Campus de Somosaguas, 28223 Madrid (Spain). E-mail: mvecina@psi.ucm.es
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Abstract

Volunteerism is a well consolidated social phenomenon in our society. However, its rapid growth in the last few years has complicated the integration of theoretical knowledge and its application in organizational settings. Taking into account that nowadays, one of the chief problems of volunteer organizations is sustained volunteer service, the object of this work is to verify, within the context of the psychosocial model of sustained volunteerism (Vecina, 2001), the type of relation between the experience of positive emotions in volunteers and their intention of remaining in the organization. This work was carried out on a sample of volunteers who had been in service for less than one year prior to this study.

El voluntariado es un fenómeno social ya consolidado en nuestra sociedad. Sin embargo, el rápido crecimiento que en los últimos años ha experimentado hace difícil la integración de conocimientos teóricos y su aplicación en los contextos organizacionales. Considerando que uno de los principales problemas que tienen las organizaciones de voluntariado actualmente es la permanencia de su voluntariado, el objetivo de este trabajo es constatar, dentro del contexto aportado por el modelo psicosocial de la permanencia del voluntariado (Vecina, 2001), el tipo de relación existente entre la experiencia de emociones positivas en el voluntariado y la intención de permanencia en la organización en una muestra de voluntarios que lleva menos de un año de permanencia previa.

Keywords

volunteerismpositive emotionssustained servicevoluntariadoemociones positivaspermanencia
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The Spanish Journal of Psychology , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , May 2005 , pp. 30 - 35
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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