An Exploration of the Factors Contributing to Volunteering with Refugees
| dc.contributor.advisor | Verwijmeren, Thijs | |
| dc.contributor.author | Blaesing, Linda | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-07-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Volunteers for refugee organizations are scarce. This paper aimed at identifying drivers for volunteering with refugees (Study 1) and at testing effective strategies to encourage people to volunteer for refugees (Study 2). In Study 1, 86 participants filled in questionnaires measuring the variables of a theoretical process model online. Results revealed that self-refugee interchangeability, benevolence values, and self-enhancement were significant predictors of the intention to volunteer for refugees. Symbolic threat was a marginally significant predictor. In Study 2, 85 Dutch citizens were randomly divided into three conditions: (1) increased, (2) decreased symbolic threat, or (3) control. After reading the manipulation text self-rated symbolic threat, intention, behaviour and ethnic identification were measured. Manipulating symbolic threat did not affect the intention or behaviour to volunteer for refugees, nor was ethnic identification a moderator. Future research should investigate whether interventions targeting values, self-enhancement, or self-refugee interchangeability are effective for recruiting volunteers for refugees | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://theses.ubn.ru.nl/handle/123456789/18687 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.thesis.faculty | Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen | |
| dc.thesis.specialisation | specialisations::Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen::Psychologie::Master - Gedragsverandering | |
| dc.thesis.studyprogramme | studyprogrammes::Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen::Psychologie | |
| dc.thesis.type | Master | |
| dc.title | An Exploration of the Factors Contributing to Volunteering with Refugees |
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