Getting | |
Tombs et al., 2003 [17] | “undergraduates and graduates enquiring about shadowing or unpaid placements in order to gain experience for clinical training” |
“to gain assistant and research assistant post” | |
Klug et al., 2018 [19] | “Curious to find out if I am suitable for the role” |
“Test out career aspirations” | |
“Enhance my awareness of mental health issues” | |
“Befriending looks good on my CV” | |
“To gain psychologically relevant experience (for my career)” | |
“Acquire new skills” | |
“Meet new people” | |
“Find explanations for my own behaviour” | |
“Have close contact with others” | |
“To feel like a better person” | |
“To feel needed and acknowledged” | |
“To be accepted and liked” | |
Giving | |
Kingdon et al., 1989 [15] | “a practical way of giving something back after being helped” |
Coe et al., 2013 [14] | “I wanted to give something back to the community really and I feel that I have done that. Um. It’s kind of made me feel accepted in a way” |
Klug et al., 2018 [19] | “I have received voluntary help in the past, and wanted to give something back” |
“Feel responsibility to help others” | |
“Helping others is part of my philosophy of life” | |
“Helping others is part of my religious belief” | |
“I wanted to do something useful with my spare time” |