The purpose of this study was to examine motives for participating, satisfaction for participating, reasons for discontinuing, and devices for activation in college students volunteering activity. Participants were 505 college students from a universi...
The purpose of this study was to examine motives for participating, satisfaction for participating, reasons for discontinuing, and devices for activation in college students volunteering activity. Participants were 505 college students from a university and three colleges at the Cheju Island in Korea. Data were obtained from a structured questionnaire. The major findings were as follows. First, continuing participants placed significantly more importance on personal development and professional knowledge·technique motivation factors than did discontinuing participants. Second, continuing participants also rated that their voluntary activity participation allowed them to attain personal development/psychological benefits, professional technique leaming, and social recognition, expectation-satisfaction factors to a significant degree than did discontinuing participants. Third, continuing participants perceived significantly less maladjustment, dissatisfaction for reward system, expectancy-outcome disagreement, conflict/disharmony, motivation deprivation, lack of time constraints factors than did discontinuing participants. Forth, as devices to activate voluntary activity, continuing participants placed more importance on voluntary activity related program development/establishment of institutlonalized assistant system, improvement of consciousness, and introduction to reward system factors than did discontinuing participants.