The voluntary activity is the important thing that can supplement society’s human·material resource scarcity. The more complex the society is, the more important the activity is. The sense of community is restoring humanity, enhancing the responsib...
The voluntary activity is the important thing that can supplement society’s human·material resource scarcity. The more complex the society is, the more important the activity is. The sense of community is restoring humanity, enhancing the responsibility, cherishing citizenship, sacrificing oneself for the community through the mutual solidarity. There is a growing need for the sense of community in the current generation overflowing with egoism and individualism. This study is about the present condition of the undergraduate students’ voluntary activities and the relation of the voluntary activity factors and sense of community.
I collect the data from 5 universities(University of Seoul, Hanyang University, Hanyang University ERICA Campus, Kyung Hee University, Kyung Hee University Global Campus) that manage voluntary activity course. The research subjects are the university students they are now doing voluntary activity club. I selected them for collecting questionnaire and gained 112 data. For the data analysis, I carried out frequency analysis, descriptive statistic analysis, correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis through SPSS 19.0 program.
The analysis results are as follows.
First, the undergraduate students are in a difficult situation due to class, exam period and getting a job.
Second, before entering university, most middle·high school students’ purpose of voluntary activity is to gain a grade. But most university students’ purpose is the selfless thing.
Third, the university students’sense of community appeared high.
Fourth, the purpose of the university students’ voluntary activities has two kinds of purposes. One is the selfless purpose that help the worst situation. The other is the selfish ones that are for new experience, making good use of one’s free time, expanding personal relationship. A selfish purpose’s proportion is higher than that of selfless thing.
Fifth, among the university student’s voluntary activity experience factors, ‘the will for the sustained voluntary activity’ and ‘the participation positiveness’ affect the sense of community more, but ‘the past voluntary activity experience’ and ‘the voluntary activity course’ do not.
Sixth, in the effect on the sense of community, the voluntary activity satisfaction factor’s proportion is higher than that of the other factors, and among the subordinate factors of satisfaction level ‘need to provide future return’ and ‘need for social approval’ affect the sense of community highly.
On the basis of this study, I duly suggest the following solution to vitalize university students’voluntary activities and to improve the sense of community.
First, the university students’voluntary activities have to consider their class, exam period and getting a job. Both selfless and selfish purpose can make the occasion for the voluntary activity. Therefore, their voluntary activity’s selfish purpose should be dealt with significantly too.
Second, among the university student’s voluntary activity experience factors, ‘the will for the sustained voluntary activity’ and ‘the participation positiveness’ affect the sense of community, but ‘the past voluntary activity experience’ and ‘the voluntary activity course’ do not. Therefore, for improving university students’sense of community, it is important to plant ‘the will for the sustained voluntary activity’ and to improve ‘participation positiveness’ through the voluntary activity.
Third, in the effect on the sense of community, the voluntary activity satisfaction factor’s proportion is higher than that of voluntary activity experience factors, and among the subordinate factors of satisfaction level, the ‘need to provide future return’ and the ‘need for social approval’ affect the sense of community highly. For improving university students’sense of community, the voluntary activity must be arranged in the direction of enhancing student’s satisfaction, and especially satisfying the ‘need to provide future return’ and the ‘need for social approval’ among the subordinate factors of satisfaction level.