caa a22 4500 606151982 CHVBK 20210128100546.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11266-014-9524-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11266-014-9524-4 Quality of Life of Community-Dwelling Retirement-Aged New Zealanders: The Effects of Volunteering, Income, and Being Part of a Religious Community [Elektronische Daten] [Christian Krägeloh, Gregory Shepherd] Previous research highlighted the beneficial effects of volunteering, income and employment, and religiousness in older adults, but not the interrelationships between these variables and their effects on quality of life. In the present study, 399 community-dwelling retirement-aged New Zealanders completed the WHOQOL-BREF quality of life questionnaire and questions about their volunteering and employment activities. Path-analysis models tested the direct and indirect effects of these variables on quality of life. While employment was not a significant predictor, volunteering was positively associated with physical, psychological, and environment quality of life, and religious community membership predicted psychological and social quality of life, although effects were small. Volunteering did not mediate the relationship between religious community membership and quality of life. Volunteering and religious community membership thus provide independent QOL benefits, and future work may model their unique effects by including measures of feeling a sense of meaning and purpose as potential mediating variables. International Society for Third-Sector Research and The Johns Hopkins University, 2014 Volunteering nationallicence Religious community membership nationallicence Older adults nationallicence Quality of life nationallicence Path analysis nationallicence Krägeloh Christian Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, North Shore Campus, Private Bag 92006, 1142, Auckland, New Zealand aut Shepherd Gregory Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, North Shore Campus, Private Bag 92006, 1142, Auckland, New Zealand aut VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 26/6(2015-12-01), 2462-2478 0957-8765 26:6<2462 2015 26 11266 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-014-9524-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-014-9524-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Krägeloh Christian Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, North Shore Campus, Private Bag 92006, 1142, Auckland, New Zealand aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Shepherd Gregory Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, North Shore Campus, Private Bag 92006, 1142, Auckland, New Zealand aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 26/6(2015-12-01), 2462-2478 0957-8765 26:6<2462 2015 26 11266