Espiritualidade em prol das práticas cidadãs: um estudo sobre voluntários informais no Estado da Paraíba

Abstract

This study aims to bespeak that the impact of spirituality through the management of informal volunteers for the accomplishment of citizens' practices. To prove the existence of these relations for the administration area, contributes to the understanding the specificities existing in the management of non-profit organizations which tends to be very different from for-profit organizations. For the accomplishment of this study, we opted for a quantitative research. The types of analyzes were carried out was: descriptive analysis, logistic regression, exploratory factorial analysis, confirmatory factorial analysis and hypothesis test in the analysis of structural equations. The data analyzed showed that spirituality increases the likelihood of a person becoming an informal volunteer. However, only spirituality does not determine the occurrence of informal volunteering, there may be other factors that impact the decision. The superiority of active citizen practices in the sample of informal volunteers was identified through the descriptive statistics of the four constructs that form the citizen practices factor. Finally, through the analysis of structural equations the positive impact of spirituality on the informal volunteers was identified for civil, social and current practices. In the sample of non-volunteers, it was identified that people's spirituality impacts positively on the civil and political dimension of citizen practices.