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Will The Boomers Volunteer During Retirement? Comparing The Baby Boom, Silent, And Long Civic Cohorts, Christopher J. Einolf
Will The Boomers Volunteer During Retirement? Comparing The Baby Boom, Silent, And Long Civic Cohorts, Christopher J. Einolf
Christopher J Einolf
Data from the 1995 and 2005 waves of the Midlife in the United States panel study were used to compare rates of volunteering among the baby boomers with earlier cohorts and to predict boomers’ future volunteering. When age was kept constant through the use of panel data, the first baby boom cohort (born 1946 to 1955) did more volunteering than did the “silent” cohort (born 1936 to 1945), and the silents volunteered more than did the “long civic” cohort (born 1926 to 1935). The author generated regression equations that used nine 1995 variables to predict 2005 volunteering and used the …
Does Extensivity Form Part Of The Altruistic Personality? An Empirical Test Of Oliner And Oliners' Theory, Christopher J. Einolf
Does Extensivity Form Part Of The Altruistic Personality? An Empirical Test Of Oliner And Oliners' Theory, Christopher J. Einolf
Christopher J Einolf
This paper tests Samuel and Pearl Oliner’s theory that extensivity is a cause of prosocial behaviors, using data from the 1995 and 2005 waves of the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) survey. Principal components analysis of a set of nineteen questions about moral obligations supports the Oliners’ contention that some individuals have a constricted moral sense, meaning that they feel stronger obligations to help family members and friends than strangers, while others have an extensive moral sense and feel obligated to help both close and distant others. Tobit regression demonstrates that people with extensive moral obligations are more likely …
Sorority Membership And Risk For Campus Sexual Assault, Christopher J. Einolf, Jacqueline Minow
Sorority Membership And Risk For Campus Sexual Assault, Christopher J. Einolf, Jacqueline Minow
Christopher J Einolf
This study tested the relationship between sexual assault victimization, sorority membership, and participation in a range of sorority activities, using data from a large-sample (N = 779) survey conducted at a mid-size public university. 28.9% of sorority women reported having been sexually assaulted while in college, nearly four times the rate (6.8%) among non-sorority members. The difference between Greek and non-Greek women remained large even when controls were included for alcohol consumption and attendance at Greek parties where alcohol is served. Among sorority members, participation in social events not involving alcohol correlated negatively with sexual assault, indicating a possible protective …
Programs That Work The Academic Cultural Enrichment Mentorship Program: An Innovative Approach To Serving African American Youth, Dan Hibbler
Dan K Hibbler Ph.D.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate an after-school program that is designed to meet the specific needs of African Americanyouth. The program is called the Academic Cultural Enrichment (ACE) Mentorship Program and is sponsored, in part, by the Champaign ParkDistrict. The purpose of the program is to provide students with the competencies and skills needed to be involved, resilient, and successful. The program seeks to foster positive Black identities in the participants, and to develop strong math, reading, oratorical, and analytical thinking skills. The program has a strong African cultural component, as well as academic and recreation components. …