Volunteering Motivation in Emerging Adults and Generalized Self-Efficacy

DOI

10.2991/iciap-18.2019.16How to use a DOI?

Keywords

emerging adult, generalized self-efficacy, volunteer, volunteer motivations

Abstract

According to the results of a survey conducted by Indorelawan.org, there are many emerging adults (18–29 years old) living in Indonesia. Engaging in volunteerism as an emerging adult requires overcoming many challenges, as the emerging adult phase entails many developmental tasks. If an emerging adult to begin volunteering, they must consider both developmental and volunteering tasks. Of course, each person’s decision to volunteer is motivated by something in particular or several such things. Some may volunteer to expand their social networks, further their careers, or to self-actualize, and they believe that these goals will be fulfilled as they fulfil their volunteering and developmental tasks. Such self-affirming beliefs are called generalized self-efficacy. Different motivations for volunteering could be associated with different levels of generalized self-efficacy. This study was conducted to see the connection between volunteering motivations and generalized self-efficacy. Using convenience sampling, 1954 Indonesian citizens were chosen as participants (male = 670, female = 1280, other = 2) 18–29 years’ old who were volunteers at the time of the study or who had previously volunteered. The Volunteer Functions Inventory was used to measure volunteer motivations and the Generalized Self-Efficacy Scale was used to measure generalized self-efficacy. To explore the relationship between volunteer motivations and generalized self-efficacy, the data were analyzed using a partial correlation method. The results of the study indicate a negative correlation between generalized self-efficacy and protective motives (r = −0.01; p > 0.05), a positive correlation between social motives (r = 0.04, p > 0.05) and enhancement motives (r = 0.06; p = 0.05), and a significant positive correlation between values motives (r = 0.12; p < 0.05) career motives (r = 0.07; p < 0.01) and understanding motives (r = 0.15; p < 0.05), with the motive to understand having the highest significant positive correlation. The six volunteer motivations were found to relate differently to generalized self-efficacy. People who volunteer to protect themselves from unpleasant things are more likely to have lower generalized self-efficacy, and people who volunteer for social reasons, enhancement, their values, and career motives are more likely to have higher generalized self-efficacy.

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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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AU  - Adrianisa Kamila Shabrina
AU  - Sugiarti Musabiq
PY  - 2019/08
DA  - 2019/08
TI  - Volunteering Motivation in Emerging Adults and Generalized Self-Efficacy
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Intervention and Applied Psychology (ICIAP 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 191
EP  - 199
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iciap-18.2019.16
DO  - 10.2991/iciap-18.2019.16
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