자원봉사활동 참여자들의 여가동기와 행복감: 이타적 여가동기의 중요성

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships among leisure motives and happiness for individuals who volunteer in leisure service programs. A strength of the current study is that we developed altruistic items in addition to Beard and Ragheb's (1983) leisure motivation scales to explain volunteers' altruistic motives in volunteerism. It should be recognized that motivation to volunteer is usually perceived as a combination of several leisure motives, altruistic and egoistic alike. By using convenience sampling method, volunteers were drawn from 8 leisure service programs located in Seoul, Korea (n=218). The factor analysis produced a four-factor structure for the volunteerism motivation construct: social, competency, intellectual, and altruistic factors. It should be recognized that volunteers perceived the social factor, which explained 17.5% of the variance, to be most important. Regression analyses were conducted to identify the relationships among study variables. A regression analysis demonstrated the influence of leisure motives (social, competency, intellectual, and altruistic motives) on happiness in volunteerism. Our findings begin to fill the research gap, laying the groundwork for future studies of associations involving the multidimensional construct of leisure motivation and altruism in volunteerism.