Disabilities

Disability and social participation: The case of formal and informal participation
Shandra, Carrie. Social Science Research, 2017. 

People with disabilities in the United States experience lower levels of social integration than people without disabilities. This study uses data from the 2009–2015 Volunteer Supplement of the Current Population Survey to evaluate how working-aged adults with sensory disabilities, cognitive disabilities, physical disabilities, or multiple disabilities access, participate in, and maintain volunteer roles.

Through adversity comes strength: Volunteering and self-esteem among people with physical disabilities 
Kulik, Liat. International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organisations, 2017.

This study examines the differences in self-esteem between volunteers with physical disabilities and their counterparts who do not volunteer; additionally, examining the contribution of the characteristics of the volunteering experience (motives for volunteering, satisfaction with the rewards of volunteering, and the quality of relationships with beneficiaries) to explain self-esteem among volunteers with physical disabilities. 

Nothing About Us Without Us’ in Volunteerism Too: Volunteering Among People with Disabilities.
Yanay-Ventura, Galit, Voluntas (Manchester, England), vol. 30, no. 1, 2018, pp. 147–63,

Viewing disability as a form of social capital, this paper examines the unique contribution of volunteers with disabilities and the meaning that volunteering holds for them.