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Does volunteering impact refugee women's life satisfaction, empowerment, and wellbeing? Experimental evidence, local knowledge, and causal reasoning

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  • Panter-Brick, Catherine
  • Eggerman, Jannik J.
  • Jefferies, Philip
  • Qtaishat, Lina
  • Dajani, Rana
  • Kumar, Praveen

Abstract

There are gaps in the evidence base addressing whether volunteering programs enhance the wellbeing, empowerment, and life satisfaction of individual volunteers. Program impacts are seldom rigorously evaluated, whilst construct meanings remain largely unspecified, especially in the Middle East. This study tested the impacts of We Love Reading, a program training volunteers to read aloud in their local communities. It also mapped local knowledge representation.

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  • Panter-Brick, Catherine & Eggerman, Jannik J. & Jefferies, Philip & Qtaishat, Lina & Dajani, Rana & Kumar, Praveen, 2024. "Does volunteering impact refugee women's life satisfaction, empowerment, and wellbeing? Experimental evidence, local knowledge, and causal reasoning," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 347(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:347:y:2024:i:c:s0277953624001795
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116735
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