Motives of Youth Volunteer Behavior

DOI

10.2991/icamr-18.2019.133How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Motives, volunteers, students

Abstract

This aims of the study are to obtain an overview of the changing motives of youth volunteer behavior before and after participating in the Positive Youth Project. The model used in this research was a quasi-experimental model with a pre-posttest design. Twenty- five high school students participated in this study by filling out the Volunteer Functions Inventory measuring instrument and receiving material with various delivery methods over the course of four days. In general, this activity is able to increase the score of the measuring instruments used, evident by the increase in mean after the activities when compared to the mean before the activities. The part that shows significant changes after delivering the material is 1) motivations for being a career, social, value, and protective volunteer, 2) career outcomes, values, protection, and understanding, and 3) satisfaction. The parts that show insignificant changes are 1) reasons for becoming volunteers in terms of understanding and enhancing, 2) social outcomes, and enhancing, and 3) long-term intentions.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ahmad Ridfah
AU  - Nur Afni Indahari
AU  - Wawan Kurniawan
PY  - 2019/04
DA  - 2019/04
TI  - Motives of Youth Volunteer Behavior
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Advanced Multidisciplinary Research (ICAMR 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 560
EP  - 563
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icamr-18.2019.133
DO  - 10.2991/icamr-18.2019.133
ID  - Ridfah2019/04
ER  -