An Exploratory Study of Volunteering Behavior among Protestants in Korea

정상원,변은지 연세대학교 사회복지연구소 2016 한국사회복지조사연구 Vol.49 No.-

This study attempts to explore the volunteering behavior among Christians which is an interesting topic regarding the relation between religion and civic engagement. Particularly, this paper explores determinants of different areas of volunteering: religious only volunteering, secular only volunteering, both religious and secular volunteering, and non-volunteering. For the analysis, this study employs a multinomial logit model. The data are collected from 1,294 respondents from 38 churches in Seoul and Kyeong-gi province. To understand what factors affect volunteering participation and the pattern of volunteering behavior to choose the volunteering area, this study employs three theories: social resource theory(haman, economic, social and cultural capital variables), behavior setting theory(church size), group volunteer theory(denomination, sermon, and bulletin). The result of likelihood test shows that with the non-volunteer group as a reference, the importance of faith, church attendance and in-church network size has a positive effect on religious volunteering but church size has a negative effect. The secular volunteering is affected by the importance of faith, in-church and out-of-church network size and frequency of volunteering information on the church periodicals. Both religious and secular volunteering is positively affected by age, in-church network size, importance of faith, church attendance, Methodist denomination, and frequency of sermon but negatively affected by employment, children, and church size. This study guides a new empirical investigation of the factors affecting on participation in volunteering and the areas they involved in. It broadens and promotes understanding regarding such volunteers’ characteristics and behaviors whose religious organizations should continuously care for and cultivate. It also has practical implications in guiding the volunteer mobilization of religious organizations.

現代日本における宗教とボランティア活動 ─JGSS(日本版General Social Surveys)の計量分析から─

寺沢重法 동서대학교 일본연구센터 2012 次世代 人文社會硏究 Vol.8 No.-

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether believers participate in volunteering in contemporary Japan. Recently, many researchers have studied the relationship between religion and volunteering in Japan. However, most of them have used qualitative case studies. The data sets of the 2002 and 2005 Japanese General Social Surveys (JGSS) were used in the present study. Binary logistic regression analyses were used to examine “regular volunteering” and “irregular volunteering”. The findings are as follows. Firstly, religious variables have, on the whole, positive significant effects on both regular and irregular volunteering, even though socio-demographic variables were controlled. Secondly, while both devotion and belonging to a religious organization had positive significant effects on “regular volunteering”, only devotion had a positive significant effect on “irregular volunteering”. Thirdly、 Christianity and other religions had no significant effects on “irregular volunteering” The purpose of this study was to investigate whether believers participate in volunteering in contemporary Japan. Recently, many researchers have studied the relationship between religion and volunteering in Japan. However, most of them have used qualitative case studies. The data sets of the 2002 and 2005 Japanese General Social Surveys (JGSS) were used in the present study. Binary logistic regression analyses were used to examine “regular volunteering” and “irregular volunteering”. The findings are as follows. Firstly, religious variables have, on the whole, positive significant effects on both regular and irregular volunteering, even though socio-demographic variables were controlled. Secondly, while both devotion and belonging to a religious organization had positive significant effects on “regular volunteering”, only devotion had a positive significant effect on “irregular volunteering”. Thirdly、 Christianity and other religions had no significant effects on “irregular volunteering”

박물관 자원봉사자의 참여동기와 참여강도 및 참여행동과의 관계연구

김세준 한국예술경영학회 2015 예술경영연구 Vol.0 No.33

The purpose of this study was to explore the empirical relationship between volunteering motivation and behavior in the Korean museums. The research tried to find the following questions; Who are the volunteers? Why do theyparticipate? How could museums serve the needs of the volunteers and fulfillthe organizational needs? The factors of volunteering individuals were previously studied mainly by Edwards(2005), Holmes(2003), Clary(1992; 1996;1998), Yeung(2004), and Ji-hoon Choi(2009), and resulted the VFI(VolunteerFunctions Inventory). The survey was conducted 53 actively volunteering museums among 500 more registered museums in Korea and 363 answers werevalidated, and analyzed by descriptively, t-test and reliability test. The results finds the largest group of the museum volunteers were housewives and ages over 50s and most of them were relatively highly educated and a high-income. The average period of museum volunteering was about 6years and 7.2 hours per week. Most of respondents reported high intention of continuous participation. An analysis of the museum volunteering motivation indicated that ‘understanding’ factor was the highest, followed by ‘values’, ‘enhancement’, ‘personal attachment’, ‘social’, ‘career’, and ‘protective’. Themuseum volunteers are seeking to learn more about the world or exercise skillsthat are often un-used. As the result of analysing the relationship between demographic variables and 7 motivations, ‘values’, ‘understanding’, ‘social’ wasrelated to age and existence of occupation. ‘Career’ was in relation to existence of occupation and average income level, ‘protective’ had the strong relations with age, existence of occupation and education level, and ‘personal attachment’depended on average income level. The effect of the museum volunteers’degree of participation on the willingness to continue, was verified that higher degree of participation (i.e., volunteering time per week, participation initiatives) leads to stronger willingness to continue (i.e., whole volunteering experiences, volunteering experience in the current museum, intention ofcontinuous participation for over 1 year). Finally, the respondents who had stronger ‘social’ normally had more volunteering experience and longer volunteering time per week. And they answered they would continue their volunteering work for over 1 year. This study was significant to find the volunteering motivation in Korean museums for the first times. The findings confirmed the proceeding studies ofgeneral volunteer related behavior and uniqueness of the museum settings. 이 연구는 박물관 자원봉사자가 일반 사회복지분야의 자원봉사자와 상이한 특수성을 검토하고, 이를 통해 박물관 자원봉사자들이 적극적으로 활동할 수 있는 환경조성을 위해 자원봉사행동의 기초가 되는 참여동기에 따른 자원봉사행동들을 탐색적으로 고찰하고자 하였다. 따라서, 이 연구의 목적은 먼저 박물관 자원봉사자 개인의 특성을 파악하고 이후 자원봉사자의 참여동기에 따른 자원봉사행동의 지속의지와 참여강도의 차이를 분석하여 박물관 자원봉사자의 동기특성에 따른 효과적 활용․관리 방안을 제안하였다. 현재 국내 대표적인 53개 박물관에서 활동하고 있는 자원봉사자를 연구대상으로 설정하였고, 연구대상으로 선정된 박물관 자원봉사자 중 50명을 예비조사하여 설문의 신뢰도를 높였다. 본 조사에는 유효한 363부가 활용되었다. 설문변인은 선행연구된 참여동기 척도(Volunteer Functions Inventory)와 자원봉사 행동변인과 박물관 고유동기를 활용하였다. 연구의 결과로 박물관 자원봉사자는 50대 이상 주부가 가장 많았으며 전반적으로고학력, 고소득 계층이 주를 이루었다. 박물관 자원봉사자의 참여동기 평균을 분석한 결과 이해동기가 가장 높게 나왔고, 그 다음으로 가치동기, 안정동기, 애정동기,사회동기 순서로 나타났다. 또한, 자원봉사자의 자원봉사행동 참여강도가 지속의지에 미치는 영향을 분석한 결과, 참여강도가 높을수록 지속의지가 강하게 나타났다. 마지막으로 자원봉사행동에 미치는 참여동기를 살펴보면, 사회동기가 높은 봉사자들이 전체 자원봉사경력과 주 평균 자원봉사활동시간이 길게 나타났다. 본 연구는 국내 박물관 자원봉사자의 인구통계학적 변수 및 참여동기에 따른 자원봉사행동과 관련해 처음으로 시도된 실증적 연구로서 연구결과를 통해 선행연구의 이론을 확인하는데 의의를 두고 있다. 하지만, 연구범위의 한계로 인해 다루지 못한 박물관의 운영주체, 규모, 자원봉사 관리자 및 자원봉사자 간의 관계와 태도, 조직 분위기, 관리 체계 등에 따른 자원봉사환경 및 운영 차이를 비교 분석하는 연구가 향후 필요하다.

시민성 관점에서 본 자원활동

이선미(Seon-Mi Lee) 한국NGO학회 2016 NGO연구 Vol.11 No.1

The dualism between altruistic volunteering and citizen participation based on ideal of citizenship rights begins to dissolve. The aim of this study is to discuss the value of volunteering from the perspective of citizenship theory and to classify diverse volunteer activities according to its function in enhancing the citizenship. At first, based on the conceptual assumption that citizenship includes both citizenship rights and civility (or civic virtue), it is argued for the careful balance between universal citizenship rights and civility in Korean context where the importance of civility for realizing inclusive citizenship had been somewhat neglected: fostering civility must be a part of realizing citizenship rights. It needs, however, a critical approach on the widely accepted usage of civility among Koreans, in order to avoid the risk of misuse: the word has often been used in terms of national ethics for the authoritarian governments to mobilize the people toward its one single goal of development. Therefore, it should be noted three things: at first, fostering civility must be balanced with the concern in rights of individuals; at second, “the public sphere” or the political sphere is not the only field in which citizenship with self-esteem and self-fulfillment can be trained and enhanced. But it must expand to include every part of life, which needs to rethink the traditional approach to private-public divide. At last, civility should not appeal to member s sense of belonging based on homogeneity. Next, the author explores the distinction between “Dutiful Citizenship(DC) and “Actualizing Citizenship(AC)” suggested by Bennett. While DC is characterized by the sense of belonging and commitment to a political community which determines moral virtue of the citizens in a territorial boundary, new media and globalization triggered a new type of citizenship which features interactive and expressive participation and flexible identity (re)constructed with the everyday experiences of transgression across borders. Eventually, the author classifies diverse volunteering with 2 dimensions: kinds of citizenship in DC and AC which corresponds to demand-oriented approach and supply-oriented approach respectively in the voluntary sector theory; expressive-instrumental rationale. Emerging new patters of volunteering such as volunteering in social enterprise, pro bono volunteering, and episodic volunteering, volunteering in “community building project” and apartment volunteer team are examined from the perspective of Actualizing Citizenship. 선한 사람의 자원봉사활동과 보편적 권리 의식에 기반을 둔 시민참여라는 기존의 이분법이 급속히 깨어지고 있다. 본 연구는 이러한 배경에서 자원활동의 의의를 시민성 이론의 관점에서 정립하고, 시민성 강화를 위한 기능을 중심으로 다양한 자원활동을 유형화 하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 먼저, ‘시티즌십(citizenship)’ 개념이 시민권과 시민성을 포괄한다는 것에서 출발하여, 한국적 상황에서 보편적 권리로서 시민권과 시민에게 요구되는 바람직한 덕목으로서 시민성 사이에 균형이 필요하다는 인식이 확산되고 있음을 지적한다. 단, 애국주의적 전체주의로 빠질 위험을 방지하기 위해, 시민성에 대한 강조는 다음과 같은 조건을 필요로 한다. 첫째, 개인의 권리 인식과의 균형이 중요하다. 둘째, 자긍심과 자기충족감을 가지고 시민성을 발현하는 것이 정치적 영역 혹은 공적인 영역에 국한되지 않고 일상생활 전반으로 확대되어야 한다. 마지막으로, 시민성은 동질성에 기초한 소속감에 호소해서는 안 된다. 이러한 기초 위에서 베넷의 “의무적 시민성(DC)”과 “실현적 시민성(AC)”의 구분을 소개하 면서, 새로운 미디어 환경의 확산, 글로벌라이제이션의 진전 등의 결과로 등장하는 새로운 유형의 시민, 즉 상호적이며 표현적인 참여와, 경계 이동의 일상문화적 경험을 통해 재구성되는 유연한 정체성을 특징으로 하는 새로운 시민에 부합하는 새로운 시민성 요구를 제안한다. 자원활동의 유형 구분과 관련하여, 의무적 시민성에 기초한 자원활동이 수요중심적 접근이라고 한다면, 실현적 시민성을 지향하는 자원활동은 공급중심적 접근에 해당한다. 자원활동에 대한 공급중심적 접근으로서 사회적 기업, 재능기부형 자원활동, 일화적 자원활동(episodic volunteering), 마을만들기 및 아파트봉사단 등을 예로 들고, 이를 실현적 시민성의 관점에서 해석한다.

자원봉사 정부지출이 개인의 자원봉사 참여에 미치는구축효과에 관한 연구

송정안 한국행정학회 2016 韓國行政學報 Vol.50 No.4

본 연구는 자원봉사 정부지출의 의도치 않은 결과에 대한 분석을 목적으로 한다. 이를 위해 본 연구는 자원봉사정책이 단순히 자원봉사를 활성화하기 위한 수단이라는 규범적 관점이 아닌 공공서비스 제공을 위한 정부・ 시민사회 간 자원협력제도로 바라보고, 이를 바탕으로 공공・민간자원 구축효과이론과 지대추구이론을 고찰・ 적용하였다. 이에 본 연구는 자원봉사 정부지출과 자원봉사 정부지출에서 지대추구비용이 차지하는 비율이커질수록 자원봉사 참여 정도는 작아질 것이라는 두 가지의 구축효과 가설을 설정하였다. 분석은 2015 통계청 사회조사 자료(만19세 이상 34,403명)와 16개 광역자치단체 자원봉사센터 자료에 대해 일반화된위계적선형모형(HGLM)을 적용하였다. 분석결과, 자원봉사 정부지출 규모 자체보다는 자원봉사 정부지출에서의 지대추구 규모에 의한 유의한 자원봉사 구축효과가 나타나고 있음이 발견되었다. 마지막으로 이에 대한 이론적, 정책적 함의를 논의하였다. This study aims to explain why government spending for volunteering has negative or non-significant effects on volunteering. This puzzling phenomenon has not yet been fully explained due to the normative orientation dominant in volunteering policy studies. To break through this paucity of explanation, this study took a politico-economic perspective on volunteering policy. Based on rent-seeking theory, this study expected that a higher proportion of rent-seeking in total government spending for volunteering policy would lead to a lower level of volunteering(the crowd-out effect), because of the unproductive but redistributive nature of rent-seeking. The data that this study uses come from two sources: the 2015 Social Survey by Statistics Korea and the 2015 Volunteer Center Report by the Ministry of the Interior. The method included HGLM(binominal logistic multi-level model). The primary finding of this study is that rent-seeking behaviors do matter when it comes to implementation of volunteering policy. As expected, an increase in rent-seeking in volunteering policy implementation significantly reduced individuals' volunteering participation. However, government spending for volunteering itself had no significant effect on volunteering. Finally, theoretical and policy implications of these research findings are discussed.

한국 개신교인의 자원봉사영역 선택행동 영향요인 탐색

정상원(Jong Sang won),변은지(Byun An gie) 연세대학교 사회복지연구소 2016 한국사회복지조사연구 Vol.49 No.-

본 연구는 개신교인의 자원봉사활동 참여와 자원봉사영역 선택행동을 규명하는 데 그 목적이 있다. 특히 본 연구에서는 종교를 가진 시민들의 봉사영역 선택 행동에 초점을 두면서 봉사영역을 세 가지로 나누고 ‘종교봉사만 참여’, ‘사회봉사만 참여’, ‘종교봉사와 사회봉사 모두 참여’에 영향을 미치는 요인에 대하여 분석하였다. 분석을 위해서 다항로짓회귀분석모형 (multinomial logit model)을 사용하였으며 서울·경기지역의 개신교 교회 38곳에 소속된 1,294명의 개신교인으로부터 자료를 수집하였다. 자원봉사 참여 및 자원봉사 영역 선택에 영향을 미치는 요인을 밝히기 위하여 세 가지 이론 즉 사회적자원이론(social resource theory), 행위설정이론(behavior setting theory), 그리고 집단자원봉사이론(group volunteer theory)을 적용하여 연구모델을 설정하였다. 비봉사 집단을 준거집단으로 분석한 결과, 종교봉사만 참여하는 집단의 경우 개인의 믿음, 교회 출석, 교회내 관계망이 정적인(+) 영향을 나타냈고 소속교회의 크기는 부적(-) 영향을 미쳤다. 사회봉사만 참여하는 집단의 경우는 개인의 믿음, 교회내·외의 관계망, 그리고 교회 정기간행물의 사회봉사 정보가 정적으로(+) 유의한 영향이 있었다. 종교봉사와 사회봉사 모두 참여하는 집단 역시 개인의 믿음, 교회출석, 교회내 관계망이 정적인(+) 영향을 나타냈으며 소속교회의 나눔에 대한 설교와 감리교 소속이 두 가지 봉사 모두에 참여하는 데 유의한 영향을 나타냈다. 종교봉사나 사회봉사 한 가지 봉사만 참여하는 집단은 인구사회학적 요인으로부터 유의한 영향이 없었던 반면 종교봉사와 사회봉사 모두에 참여하는 집단은 연령, 직업, 어린자녀 요인에도 영향을 받는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구는 연구대상이 수도권 지역 개신교 교인에 국한되어 종교와 시민참여활동을 설명하는 데 한계가 있으나 그간 한국사회에서 드물게 시도된 종교인구의 자원봉사 참여와 자원봉사영역선택행동의 기제를 밝히고자 하는 새로운 시도로서 함의를 갖는다. 또한 한국사회에서 자원봉사활동에 중요한 역할을 담당하는 종교기관의 역할과 자원봉사 동기화를 위한 실천적 함의를 제시하고 있다. This study attempts to explore the volunteering behavior among Christians which is an interesting topic regarding the relation between religion and civic engagement. Particularly, this paper explores determinants of different areas of volunteering: religious only volunteering, secular only volunteering, both religious and secular volunteering, and non-volunteering. For the analysis, this study employs a multinomial logit model. The data are collected from 1,294 respondents from 38 churches in Seoul and Kyeong-gi province. To understand what factors affect volunteering participation and the pattern of volunteering behavior to choose the volunteering area, this study employs three theories: social resource theory(haman, economic, social and cultural capital variables), behavior setting theory(church size), group volunteer theory(denomination, sermon, and bulletin). The result of likelihood test shows that with the non-volunteer group as a reference, the importance of faith, church attendance and in-church network size has a positive effect on religious volunteering but church size has a negative effect. The secular volunteering is affected by the importance of faith, in-church and out-of-church network size and frequency of volunteering information on the church periodicals. Both religious and secular volunteering is positively affected by age, in-church network size, importance of faith, church attendance, Methodist denomination, and frequency of sermon but negatively affected by employment, children, and church size. This study guides a new empirical investigation of the factors affecting on participation in volunteering and the areas they involved in. It broadens and promotes understanding regarding such volunteers’ characteristics and behaviors whose religious organizations should continuously care for and cultivate. It also has practical implications in guiding the volunteer mobilization of religious organizations.

중학생의 봉사활동 시간 및 친사회성, 자아존중감의 종단적 관계

박수원,김샛별 미래를 여는 청소년학회 2017 미래청소년학회지 Vol.14 No.1

Society has tried to enhance volunteering of adolescents. Therefore, it is critical to understand the current state of adolescents’ volunteering and examine the effects of volunteering participation on adolescents’ psychological characteristics. The present study investigated the reasons for participating in volunteer activities and identified the reciprocal relationships among volunteering time, prosociality, and self-esteem in middle school students. The data of 4,051 middle school students was sampled from the Gyeonggi Education Panel Study(GEPS), provided by the Gyeonggi Institute of Education. Frequency analysis suggested that more than 70% of students reported that they have participated in the volunteering for getting a score. Auto-regressive cross-lagged analysis revealed that there was no significant relationship between volunteering time and prosociality, but there was a significant relationship between volunteering time and self-esteem. These results indicated that volunteering time increases students’ prosociality mediated by participants’ self-esteem. Therefore, educators should encourage not only volunteering time itself, but also focus on developing prosociality through their intrapersonal changes (i.e., self-worth) while volunteering. 사회적으로 청소년의 봉사활동 참여를 높이려는 시도가 계속되고 있다. 이러한 상황에서 청소년의 봉사활동 실태를 파악하고 봉사활동 시간의 증가가 청소년에게 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 이해할 필요가 있다. 본 연구에서는 경기교육종단연구 1~3차년도 데이터를 사용하여 중학생의 봉사활동 참여이유를 확인하고, 봉사활동 참여시간과 친사회성, 자아존중감의 상호 연관관계를 확인하고자 하였다. 빈도분석 결과 봉사점수를 위해 봉사활동에 참여한다는 응답이 3차년도 모두에서 70% 이상의 비율을 차지하고 있었다. 자기회귀교차지연 분석 결과, 봉사활동 시간은 친사회성과는 직접적인 연관을 가지지 않으나 자아존중감과는 상호관계를 가지는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 연구결과는 봉사활동 시간을 높이는 것이 중학생의 친사회성을 직접적으로 높이는 것이 아니라 자아존중감과 같은 개인 내적변인의 변화를 매개로 친사회성을 증진시킨다는 것을 보여준다. 따라서 교육자들은 봉사활동 시간 자체뿐만 아니라 청소년이 봉사활동을 하며 겪는 내적 변화를 통한 친사회성의 함양에도 초점을 맞추어야 할 것이다.

일반노인 시간자원봉사의 특징 : 평균시간과 개인자원을 중심으로

이현기 한국노인복지학회 2011 노인복지연구 Vol.0 No.54

The purpose of this study is to estimate mean time of volunteering and find any age-cohort differences in resources use for older volunteering. Also, a concern about which resources is necessary in order to promote elderly volunteering has grown recently in social policy area. So, the paper tries to find any resource structures of volunteering. The paper uses a data of Korean Labor and Income Panel Study(KLIPS) 7th wave, “Working Hours and Leisure” addendums. The total case is 11,646 subjects, among them 2,853 of 55 years older is used for the analysis. The MCA and Multiple regression analysis is adopted to see age-cohort differences in resource use in which two age-cohort is divided to compare each other. The analysis results show that elderly cohort of 55 years older spends .601 hours per week, and younger cohort spends .256 hours per week. It means that older volunteers spent 2.3 times more than younger cohort in time use of volunteering. For the time volunteer participants only, they show 12.35 hours spent in volunteering. On the other hand, the regression analysis shows that two age cohorts use individual resources in different way in volunteerism. This suggests age-cohorts differences in resources exist in different life stage of individuals. Finally theoretical and policy implications are discussed in detail. 노인자원봉사활동 연구가 최근 참여자의 주체적 시각을 반영하는 질적 연구가 등장하면서 연구방법 상의 진전을 보이고 있다. 본 연구는, 대부분의 선행연구가 노인자원봉사활동이 주는 긍정적 기능과 혜택에 초점을 맞추고 있으나, 노인자원봉사 그 자체, 생산적 활동으로써 노인자원봉사활동의 구조와 특징을 분석하는 데 강조점을 두고자 한다. 따라서 시간자원봉사와 참여 자원봉사를 개념적으로 구분하였으며, 시간자원봉사의 자원구조, 시간자원봉사의 강도, 자원의 사용에 있어서 연령 코호트 차이 등을 분석하고 설명하고자 했다. 본 목적을 위해 한국노동패널조사 7차년도 부가조사인 ‘노동시장과 여가’ 자료를 활용하였다. 이 자료의 총 표본은 11,646명이며, 분석목적에 따라 필요한 55세 이상 노인 2,835명과 54세 이하 8,739명을 추출하여 주당 평균시간과 연령코호트 차이를 분석하는 데 활용하였다. 사용한 통계기법은 평균값을 구하기 위해 MCA 방법을 사용하였고, 자원사용의 코호트차이를 밝히기 위해서는 다중회귀분석을 사용하여 시간자원봉사와 자원 간의 상관을 추정하였다. 분석 결과, 참여 자원봉사를 이용한 분석에서 나타나던 연령증가에 따른 참여율의 감소와는 달리 젊은 연령 코호트 보다 자원봉사시간이 긴 특징을 보였다. 한편 두 연령코호트를 분석한 다중회귀 분석은 중고령 코호트는 시간자원봉사 측면에서 청장년 코호트 보다 상대적으로 인적 자본 보다는 사회 및 문화 자본을 더 활용하는 형태를 보여 주었다. 이 결과는 생애과정의 위치에 따라서 개인자원의 활용 양태가 상이하다는 것을 의미하고, 정책적으로 노인자원봉사자의 헌신을 유도하기 위해서는 문화 및 사회자본의 강화가 필요하다는 점을 시사한다.

The Relationship between Religious Volunteering and the Faith of Seniors

Seong-Hun Choi 한국기독교교육정보학회 2015 Journal of Christian education information tech Vol.0 No.27

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between religious volunteering and the faith of seniors. This study also aims to develop a fundamental rationale for Christian adult education. After elderly congregants participate in religious volunteering, they experience a strengthened faith and an enhanced Christian identity through reflections on their volunteering and interactions with other volunteers and beneficiaries. Thus, this study concludes that the relationship between religious volunteering and the faith development of seniors is interdependent, and reflection is a crucial part of religious volunteering. The implications that this study provides are the following: (1) faith development research must include more research methods to deal with the faith of seniors; (2) Christian educators and church leaders should cooperate to help and support the elderly to choose volunteer activities that fit them and facilitate their reflection on their volunteering; and (3) senior volunteers should actively participate in the process of planning, implementing, and evaluating religious volunteering.

가족자원봉사활동에 대한 건강가정지원센터 가족봉사자들의 인식과 가족봉사프로그램 발전방안

서홍란 ( Hong Lan Seo ),김희년 ( Hee Nyon Kim ) 한국가족관계학회 2012 한국가족관계학회지 Vol.17 No.2

Family volunteering is a newly developed field in the area of volunteering. It has it`s own special meanings since it contributes to prevent and solve many problems our society encounters to be a community by promoting corporate efforts from both individual family and whole society. This study which was conducted utilizing participants of family volunteering program in Healthy Family Support Center is pursued to develop proper plan for family volunteering reflecting motivation. perception, attitude, and experience about activities they participate. For this purpose, in-depth interviews with 20 participants, several data such as monthly newsletter, volunteer`s activity evaluation sheet, volunteering application paper of Healthy Family Support Center were included to do qualitative analysis. Quantitative analysis was also performed by utilizing 150 sheets to measure degree of satisfaction of family volunteers. It was turned out that degree of satisfaction of the family volunteers is generally high. Especially, the degree of satisfaction of family volunteers utilizing special skills is higher than those of participating in other types of volunteer activities. The participants in this study indicated that they have participated in the family volunteer program for educational purpose such as succession of family values to children, improvement of family relationship, and participating in communities activities. They described that family volunteer programs are beneficial to family as well as communities. However, they pointed out that the three components of family volunteer program-family volunteer, agency which in need of volunteer services, and family volunteering program center-are needed to change. This study revealed that program development and recruitment of proper agency for volunteer services are needed to meet the need of family volunteers. It also showed that the management of enlisted members of family volunteering is more important than the recruitment of new volunteers. Continuing education is also needed to help volunteers gain volunteer spirit, and special knowledge and skill to be used in special area.