Environmental volunteer well-being: Managers' perception and actual well-being of volunteers.

ABSTRACT: Background: Environmental volunteering can increase well-being, but environmental volunteer well-being has rarely been compared to participant well-being associated with other types of volunteering or nature-based activities. This paper aims to use a multidimensional approach to well-being to explore the immediately experienced and later remembered well-being of environmental volunteers and to compare this to the increased well-being of participants in other types of nature-based activities and volunteering. Furthermore, it aims to compare volunteer managers' perceptions of their volunteers' well-being with the self-reported well-being of the volunteers. Methods: Onsite surveys were conducted of practical conservation and biodiversity monitoring volunteers, as well as their c

SUBMITTER: Kragh G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5288684 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature