Volunteering, income and health.

Detollenaere, Jens; Willems, Sara; Baert, Stijn · PLoS One · 2017

cross_sectional · Level IV

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Abstract

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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