Attitude factors influencing participation toward volunteer activities in female students

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the psychological background factors discriminating participants from nonparticipants to volunteer activities, and participation-motive factors of non-participants as the subject with female students.

Nine subscales of attitude toward volunteer activities, 2 subscales of identity, and 7 subscales of everyday life satisfaction are scale-constructed as the explanatory variables of criterion variable.

As the results of three types of analysis(multiple regression, logistic regression, and discriminant) using as the criterion variable of two groups, that is participant-group(+, n=85) and nonparticipant-group(-, n=117), there had been extracted commonly for these analyses the 6 variables of affiriation orientation(+), egoism(-), admirative appraisal(-), perception of distress(-), basic identity(-), and community-life satisfaction(+) influencing criterion variable.

Next, multiple regression analysis using as criterion variable of activity-motives of nonparticipants sugessted that egoism were very much concerned in the negative attitudes for activity, and multiple co-rrelation coefficient were .738(R²=.545) using all 21 explanatory variables.