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- Publications
- Influence
The interplay of traits and motives on volunteering: agreeableness, extraversion and prosocial value motivation
- G. Carlo, M. Okun, G. Knight, Maria Rosario T. de Guzman
- Psychology
- 1 April 2005
Social psychology and personality theorists have proposed that our understanding of prosocial behavior will be enhanced by examining the interplay of traits and motives. The present study was… Expand
Assessing volunteer motives: a comparison of an open‐ended probe and Likert rating scales
- L. D. Allison, M. Okun, Kathy S. Dutridge
- Psychology
- 1 July 2002
The purpose of the present study was to compare the motives of volunteers (career, esteem, protective, social, understanding, and value) as assessed by an open-ended probe and the Volunteer Functions… Expand
Life regrets and current goals as predictors of psychological adjustment
Life regrets and current goals were examined as predictors of psychological adjustment in a sample of 155 Ss who rated these constructs along 13 theoretically derived dimensions. Relative to regrets,… Expand
Effects of positive and negative social exchanges with various sources on depressive symptoms in younger and older adults.
Addressing a previous gap in the gerontological literature, the present study examined the effects of both positive and negative social exchanges within key relationships (spouse, children, and other… Expand
Age and motives for volunteering: testing hypotheses derived from socioemotional selectivity theory.
- M. Okun, Amy Schultz
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychology and aging
- 1 June 2003
Following a meta-analysis of the relations between age and volunteer motives (career, understanding, enhancement, protective, making friends, social, and values), the authors tested hypotheses… Expand
Sense of Community and Being a Volunteer Among the Young-Old
This study tests the hypothesis derived from Omoto and Snyder’s context-and-process model that sense of community is an independent predictor of volunteering among young-old adults. A secondary… Expand
Social support and social norms: do both contribute to predicting leisure-time exercise?
- M. Okun, L. Ruehlman, P. Karoly, R. Lutz, C. Fairholme, R. Schaub
- Psychology, Medicine
- American journal of health behavior
- 1 September 2003
OBJECTIVE
To clarify the contribution of social support and social norms to exercise behavior.
METHODS
A sample of 363 college students completed a questionnaire that assessed social support and… Expand
Motivation to volunteer by older adults: a test of competing measurement models.
Four measurement models of the structure of motivation to volunteer were evaluated in 2 samples of older (minimum age = 50 years), active volunteers. Motivation to volunteer was assessed with the… Expand
A comparison of the influence of conflictual and supportive social interactions on psychological distress.
- J. F. Finch, M. Okun, G. J. Pool, L. Ruehlman
- Medicine, Psychology
- Journal of personality
- 1 August 1999
Following a quantitative review examining the relative influence of positive and negative social exchanges on emotional health, a second-order factor model of negative social exchange was tested and… Expand
The Factor Structure of Received Social Support: Dimensionality and the Prediction of Depression and Life Satisfaction
- J. F. Finch, M. Barrera, M. Okun, W. H. Bryant, G. J. Pool, A. L. Snow-Turek
- Psychology
- 1997
Covariance structure analyses were carried out on the Inventory of Socially Supportive Behaviors (ISSB; Barrera, Sandler, & Ramsey, 1981) to corroborate a hypothesized four-factor measurement model… Expand