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The beneficial effects of volunteering on health outcomes have been well documented. Research has found that participation in voluntary services is significantly predictive of better mental and physical health, life satisfaction, self-esteem, happiness, lower depressive symptoms, psychological distress, and mortality and functional inability. As proved recently, the health benefits of volunteering are not due to self-selection bias. Recent longitudinal research did not support reverse causation, in which volunteering was significantly related to better health prospectively, and the reverse was not true.
- Read this article on the scientifically proven benefits of volunteering.
- What can YOU get from volunteering? Write about it´s benefits. Upload a text of appx. 2 standard pages.
- Read this article on the scientifically proven benefits of volunteering.
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