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Mental health and wellbeing around the globe and within the humanitarian sector are the cause of increasing concern from practitioners and policy-makers alike. A growing wealth of literature explores the negative epidemiological connotations of humanitarianism but fails to consider the positive effects of altruism which have been shown in other sectors. This is the first study to assess the impacts of humanitarian volunteering on the volunteers' psychological wellbeing. A paired online survey incorporated the Mental Health Index-38 with Emotions and Behaviours at Work (EBW) Global's behavioural emotional intelligence assessment to analyse humanitarian volunteers' wellbeing before and six weeks after their volunteering experience to assess their wellbeing changes. EBW Global's assessment was then used to explore the relationship between behavioural emotional intelligence clusters and wellbeing changes. A sample of 152 participants acquired from 52 different non-governmental organisations (NGO) was analysed using Pearson coefficient correlations and multiple linear regression (MLR). Results indicated that humanitarian volunteering improves volunteers' psychological wellbeing with sta

Author

Philip Baker; Khonsa Zulfa; Stephen Walker; Patty Kostkova

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2023

Language

EN