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Volunteering because it Mandates Altruism or Generativity – 
One way of encouraging volunteerism is to mandate it as 
when high schools and colleges require students to spend specified 
amount of time in volunteer work. Example, Scout Guides in 
Schools and N.S.S. programmes of the college encourage 

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volunteering in the younger students. This practice may not really 
encourage large number of volunteers. Such forceful approach may 
actually decrease the tendency to volunteer (Stukas, Snyder and 
Clarry 1999). 
People who engage in volunteering seem to belive in internal 
locus of control, and they are more empathetic (Guagnano 1995, 
Penner and Finkelstein 1998). Some researchers have proposed 
that, volunteers display Generativity. They defined Generativity as 
adult’s interest in commitment by becoming parents, by teaching 
young people and by engaging in acts that will have positive effects 
beyond lifetime. The following are the characteristics of people 
having Generativity. 
• They believe that people need to care for one another. 
• They have enduring moral values that give purpose and 
meaning to life. 
• They perceive bad events as an event for producing good 
outcomes. 
• They make an effort for progressive development of society. 
Self Interest, Moral Integrity, and Moral Hypocracy : 
 
Many people consciously ignore the victims of the 
emergency situation for various reasons. 
Batson and Thompson (2001) suggested that it is the moral 
dilemma whether to help or not that decides whether victim will get 
help or not. He suggested that this moral dilemma is related to 
three important motives. They are; 
• Self interest (egoism) 
• Moral 
integrity 
• Moral Hypocracy