Volunteering, income and health.

Volunteering, income and health.

Separate literatures have related volunteering to health gains and income gains. We study the association between volunteering, income and health within one statistical framework. A state-of-the-art mediation analysis is conducted on data concerning the health, volunteering and sociodemographic char...

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Main Authors: Jens Detollenaere, Sara Willems, Stijn Baert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5342233?pdf=render
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spelling doaj-9fbed06a56cb464e94cae884d91054302020-11-24T21:54:06ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032017-01-01123e017313910.1371/journal.pone.0173139Volunteering, income and health.Jens DetollenaereSara WillemsStijn BaertSeparate literatures have related volunteering to health gains and income gains. We study the association between volunteering, income and health within one statistical framework. A state-of-the-art mediation analysis is conducted on data concerning the health, volunteering and sociodemographic characteristics of 42926 individuals within 29 European countries. We find that volunteering is positively associated to self-rated health. This association is partially mediated by household income.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5342233?pdf=render
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description Separate literatures have related volunteering to health gains and income gains. We study the association between volunteering, income and health within one statistical framework. A state-of-the-art mediation analysis is conducted on data concerning the health, volunteering and sociodemographic characteristics of 42926 individuals within 29 European countries. We find that volunteering is positively associated to self-rated health. This association is partially mediated by household income.
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