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“Don’t call it work”: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of volunteer firefighting in young adults based on the volunteer process model
Abstract
The number of people engaging in volunteer firefighting is on the decline. It is important to understand what factors on a personal and social level and from the three stages of the volunteer process model: antecedents, experiences and consequences, might be linked to starting and sustaining such engagement. To address this problem, a qualitative, interview-based study was performed on a sample of 10 volunteer firefighters from across Poland. The data were gathered and analyzed in the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis methodological framework. The data enabled to group and interpret the information regarding the stage of the volunteer process and the motivations behind the engagement. Implications for retention strategies are provided, with a particular focus on the social support of the firefighters, role of coping skills, relationships with the local community, quality of relationships within the brigade, personal development of the volunteers and the way how firefighters make meaning of their service.
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- Category:
- Magazine publication
- Type:
- Magazine publication
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Voluntary Sector Review
no. 14,
edition 1,
pages 127 - 154,
ISSN: 2040-8056 - Publication year:
- 2023
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- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1332/204080521x16386565594488
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