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Who We Are and How We Talk About Volunteering: Older Adult Volunteers’ Perspective
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Abstract
Guided by the theoretical lens of the Communicative Ecology Model of Successful Aging (CEMSA; Fowler et al., 2015), self-categorization theory (SCT; Turner & Reynolds, 2012) and the model of Selection, Optimization with Compensation (SOC; Baltes & Baltes, 1990), we conducted an interview study of 25 older adult volunteers to explore how they discursively managed and negotiated their identity and volunteering experience. Our findings revealed three themes in the older adults’ accounts of volunteering experience: 1) positive characteristics of older adult volunteers, 2) transcendence of negative perceptions of aging through volunteering, and (3) SOC talks of positively managing and negotiate volunteer work.
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These are the slides from a presentation given at 110th Annual Convention of National Communication Association on 11/22/2024.
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2024-11-22
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University of Kansas
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Volunteering, Aging, Identity and categorization