This study is intended to provide a basic data for a development of the aged volunteering program by analyzing factors through a comparison of factors influencing the participation of the aged volunteering activities after collecting the aged who part...
This study is intended to provide a basic data for a development of the aged volunteering program by analyzing factors through a comparison of factors influencing the participation of the aged volunteering activities after collecting the aged who participate or don't participate in the volunteering activities in the same place.
To achieve this objective, there are several answers to the following questions; which factors make the aged participate in the volunteering activities?, what is the major factor among factors influencing the volunteering activities? In this study, the factors are divided into the personal background factor, situation factor and socio-psychological factor.
In order to explore theres questions, data wre gathered from 94elderly volunteers and 139 non-volunteers in Seoul senier welfare senter, through the structured questionnaire. the statistical methods used for the data analysis were descriptive statistics and logistic regression.
The results of the analysis are summarized as follows
Firstly, as the personal factor, women and the aged who don't have children and have economically a high position are highly likely to participate in the volunteering activities. Secondly, as the situation factor, the better the health status is, the higher the positive recognition on a leisure time, the easier the volunteering place access is, the higher the participating frequency of volunteering activities is, a possibility of participating in the volunteering activities is high. Thirdly, the high a desire on social responsibility recovery and desire on leisure time, the possibility of participating in the volunteering activities was high for the health maintenance through volunteering.
Based on the result of analysis, the following suggestions are made. There must be policies to attract the participation of high educated elderly and male citizen's volunteering activities through development of professional volunteering program. Also, there must be a variety of active promotion and collecting method for the volunteering activities. Finally, there must be an improvement of recognition for the existing the aged volunteering activities.