Informal volunteering is seen as an important indicator of social relations and community life. We therefore investigate the impact of various socialization practices on informal volunteering, being small helping behaviours outside of organizations for people outside the household. From theoretical notions on socialization, we hypothesize that experiencing extensive prosocial socialization practices promotes informal volunteering. We examine socialization processes of both modelling and encouragement and consider two socializing agents: parents and partners. We test our expectations employing the sixth wave of the Family Survey Dutch Population (N = 2464) that included unique measures on socialization as well as informal volunteering and holds important control variables. Our results indicated that parental modelling, partner modelling and partner encouragement were all positively related to informal volunteering, but that parental encouragement was not significantly related to informal volunteering. Our paper, thus, underscores that socialization practices are relevant in nurturing social relations and community life.

非正式志愿服务被视为社会关系和社区生活的重要指标。因此，我们调查了各种社会化实践对非正式志愿服务的影响，这些行为是组织外部对家庭外部人员的小帮助行为。从关于社会化的理论概念，我们假设经历广泛的亲社会社会化实践会促进非正式志愿服务。我们研究了建模和鼓励的社交过程，并考虑了两个社交媒介：父母和伴侣。我们使用第六次家庭调查荷兰人口（N = 2464），其中包括针对社交活动以及非正式志愿服务的独特措施，并具有重要的控制变量。我们的结果表明，父母的建模，伴侣的建模和伴侣的鼓励都与非正式志愿活动成正相关，但父母的鼓励与非正式志愿活动没有显着关系。因此，我们的论文强调，社会化实践与培育社会关系和社区生活息息相关。