2024 Volume 80 Issue 26 Article ID: 24-26010
This study conducted an interview survey of college students participating in environmental volunteer activities. The purpose of this study is to identify factors that contribute to participation and persistence in environmental volunteer activities by using text mining. Nine factors were set as structural hypotheses for the activity: "recreation”, "altruism”, "realization of ideal”, "image”, "purposelessness”, "acquisition of knowledge and skills”, "social”, "career”, and "burden”. As a result of the text analysis, the eight of nine factors were extracted as participation factors, with the exception of "career”. In addition, "parental influence" was extracted as a new factor that is not set in the structural hypothesis. It was suggested that the facilitating factors for the continuation of the activity were "human relations" and "strong altruism”, while the inhibiting factor was "lack of image before the activity”.
