Disability and social participation: The case of formal and informal volunteering |
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| Institution: | 1. Johns Hopkins Center on Aging and Health, Baltimore, Maryland;2. Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland;3. The Corporation for National and Community Service, Washington, District of Columbia;4. Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland;5. AARP, Inc., Washington, District of Columbia;6. Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York;1. Institute of Public Health, Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Safarik University, Kosice, Slovakia;2. Graduate School – Kosice Institute for Society and Health, Safarik University, Kosice, Slovakia;3. 1st Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Safarik University, Kosice, Slovakia;4. Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Safarik University, Kosice, Slovakia;5. Department of Community and Occupational Health, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands;1. Health and Disability Research Institute, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA;2. Department of Occupational Therapy, College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College, Boston University, Boston, MA |
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| Abstract: | People with disabilities in the United States experience lower levels of social integration than people without disabilities. However, less is known about the association between disability and volunteer participation—despite an extensive literature on other disparities in volunteerism. This study uses data from the 2009–2015 Volunteer Supplement of the Current Population Survey to evaluate how working-aged adults with sensory disabilities, cognitive disabilities, physical disabilities, or multiple disabilities access, participate in, and maintain volunteer roles.Net of sociodemographic characteristics, adults with disabilities are no less likely than those without disabilities to report informal volunteering, although the presence of physical and multiple disabilities negatively associates with formal volunteering. Adults with disabilities report no fewer annual hours or weeks than those without disabilities if they are formal volunteers, but the mechanism through which they initially become involved in volunteer organizations varies. People with different types of disability experience different patterns of volunteering, and the sociodemographic characteristics associated with having a disability exacerbate many of these differences. Results suggest that adults with disabilities can—and do—participate in voluntary work, but may face barriers to accessing formal volunteer roles. |
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| Keywords: | Volunteering Disability Functional limitation Nonmarket work Inclusion United States |
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