2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Determinants of Volunteer Behavior
| Project/Area Number |
24653117
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Sociology
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
KAWABATA Akira 大阪大学, 人間科学研究科, 教授 (00214677)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
INABA Keishin 大阪大学, 大学院人間科学研究科, 准教授 (30362750)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | ボランティア行動 / 宗教性 / 利他主義 / 国際比較 |
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| Research Abstract |
Our study clarified the determinants of volunteer behavior through a survey. The result shows that education, social capital, and religiosity influence on the volunteer behavior in Japan,similar to the findings of the surveys in the U.S. and Europe. Most unreligious Japanese who pray and feelgratitude for everything, were found to do volunteer more frequently. And if their parents had frequently gone to a temple, shrine or church in their childhood, they come to pray in private and feel gratitudefor everything. The conclusion is that it is effective means for creating "society of compassion and helping each other" to bring up their children in their family with pray and gratitude.
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Research Products
(11 results)
