Volunteering and political participation are differentially associated with eudaimonic and social well-being across age groups and European countries.

ABSTRACT: Voluntary participation is thought to promote the well-being of engaged individuals, especially in old age, but prior evidence on this link is mixed. In the present studies, we used the cross-sectional data from Round 6 (2012) of the European Social Survey (ESS) to investigate the variation in the associations between voluntary participation and eudaimonic (e.g., sense of direction) and social (e.g., perceived social support) well-being across types of participation (nonpolitical volunteering vs. political participation), age groups, and European countries. Study 1 addressed individual-level associations and age differences therein (preregistered at https://osf.io/2p9sz and https://osf.io/6twqe). Two-level multiple regression with an extensive set of control variables showed that at the wi

SUBMITTER: Pavlova MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9897590 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature