Journal title PSICOLOGIA DI COMUNITA'
Author/s Flora Gatti, Biagio Marano, Martina Mutti, Maura Pozzi, Elena Marta, Francesco Tommasi, Federica de Cordova, Anna Maria Meneghini, Fortuna Procentese
Publishing Year 2026 Issue 2025/2
Language English Pages 28 P. 113-140 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/psc2025oa21763
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<p>Modern volunteerism has undergone a broad transformation, which has made episodic and online forms stem. This study investigates (a) how traditional, episodic, and online volunteering affect volunteers’ local community experiences – meant as Sense of Community (SoC), Sense of Re-sponsible Togetherness (SoRT), and social generativity – and (b) the moderating role of volunteering-related ambivalence in this. The results show that only traditional volunteering has a positive impact on SoC, while online volunteering harms social generativity. Ambivalence plays a complex role: it weakens the positive impact of traditional volunteerism on SoC, yet it reverses and strengthens the effect on social generativity when it comes to online one-making it positive. The theoretical and practical implications of these results are discussed.</p>
Keywords: traditional volunteering;episodic volunteering;online volunteering;Sense of Community (SoC);Sense of Responsible Togetherness (SoRT);social generativity
Flora Gatti, Biagio Marano, Martina Mutti, Maura Pozzi, Elena Marta, Francesco Tommasi, Federica de Cordova, Anna Maria Meneghini, Fortuna Procentese, The Impact of Modern Volunteering on Local Community Experiences: The Moderating Role of Volunteering-related Ambivalence in "PSICOLOGIA DI COMUNITA'" 2/2025, pp 113-140, DOI: 10.3280/psc2025oa21763