• Care

• Spillovers

• Facilitating work life balance

Informal Volunteering and Socialization Effects: Examining Modelling and Encouragement by Parents and Partner Decline in informal helping during the first COVID-19 lockdown: a longitudinal analysis of Dutch data

Decline in informal helping during the first COVID-19 lockdown: a longitudinal analysis of Dutch data

As divorce rates have risen, scholars have expressed concern that a breakdown of traditional family bonds might negatively influence community life. This study examines the impact of divorce on one form of community involvement, namely informal community helping, and whether this impact depends on household income, having adult children and being full-time employed. We hypothesized that informal community helping can both increase and decrease after divorce and that the impact of divorce is smaller for people with higher household income, adult children or a full-time job. Utilizing longitudinal data from the first four waves (1986–2002) of the Americans’ Changing Lives panel study (N = 6,185), this study employed fixed-effects regression models. These demonstrated that people did not change their informal community helping after divorce. The impact of divorce did not depend on household income or full-time employment, but people with adult children increased their informal community helping after divorce less than average.

To what extent is divorce related to changes in informal helping, and to what extent is this relation moderated by household income, being full-time employed and having adult children?

• External data

• Questionaire

No

We used wave 1 to 4 (1986, 1988, 1994, 2002)

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• Structured

01/01/1986

31/12/2002

United States of America excluding the states of Hawaii and Alaska

01/01/1986

31/12/2002