TY - JOUR
T1 - ‘Young, Fun, and Free:’ Episodic Volunteers in Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania
AU - Compion, Sara
AU - Cnaan, Ram A.
AU - Brudney, Jeffrey L.
AU - Jeong, Bok Gyo
AU - Zhang, Chao
AU - Haski-Leventhal, Debbie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, International Society for Third-Sector Research.
PY - 2022/6
Y1 - 2022/6
N2 - As scholarship on episodic volunteering expands, researchers question if episodic volunteering is similar to, and/or different from, long-term, membership-based volunteering. This article examines the motivations of Ghanaians, South Africans, and Tanzanians to engage in event-based, episodic volunteering. Based on surveys collected from over 1000 participants in 2018, we use logistic regression models to distinguish differences in motivations between novice, occasional, and regular episodic volunteers. The results show that age and student status are influential in distinguishing novice volunteers from regular volunteers, but more importantly that novices are motivated for primarily social reasons, while regular volunteers are motivated by more altruistic reasons. Our study reinforces established knowledge that people are motivated to volunteer for many reasons that may overlap or occur simultaneously, and that these motivations differ by stage of life.
AB - As scholarship on episodic volunteering expands, researchers question if episodic volunteering is similar to, and/or different from, long-term, membership-based volunteering. This article examines the motivations of Ghanaians, South Africans, and Tanzanians to engage in event-based, episodic volunteering. Based on surveys collected from over 1000 participants in 2018, we use logistic regression models to distinguish differences in motivations between novice, occasional, and regular episodic volunteers. The results show that age and student status are influential in distinguishing novice volunteers from regular volunteers, but more importantly that novices are motivated for primarily social reasons, while regular volunteers are motivated by more altruistic reasons. Our study reinforces established knowledge that people are motivated to volunteer for many reasons that may overlap or occur simultaneously, and that these motivations differ by stage of life.
KW - Africa
KW - Cross-national research
KW - Episodic volunteering
KW - Volunteering
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85133118646&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11266-021-00324-y
DO - 10.1007/s11266-021-00324-y
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85133118646
SN - 0957-8765
VL - 33
SP - 443
EP - 458
JO - Voluntas
JF - Voluntas
IS - 3
ER -