| Abstract: | The purpose of this study is to aware that whether demographic variables and gender role reveal manifest relevant effect of selection on participation motivations and types of volunteer work, and to provide volunteering teams and volunteering authorities the references with volunteering recruitment and educational training.
After the researcher investigated the issues of documentary literatures into participation motivations, types of volunteer services, gender role as well as the states of volunteering service in Nantou County, the actual volunteers of ‘The Peaceful Society’ (the volunteer program by Government) are divided into eight categories by their volunteering services. Via the surveys among 212 samples in quantitative estimation of gender role and participation motivations, which are analyzed by unit variations and chi-square
test。
The discoveries of the conclusion are that volunteers with different gender role show greatly variations in participation motivations, and that volunteers with different demographic variables show few variations in participation motivations, but they with different age, education background, and monthly income show a few variations. Next, the selection of types of volunteer services is not remarkably related to participation motivations and gender role, while being remarkably related to sex, education background, job, and monthly income. Moreover, the research has further discovered as below.
1、The volunteer characters in Nantou “The Peaceful Society” correspond with Previous research and national data. For example, the majority volunteer’s characters include high school diploma, married or no income.
2、While volunteer choosing services type, the gender role has more effect to them than the sex. For example, one male decides to be a “Guidance and Counseling Service” volunteer is not for his sex, but for his identified of “gender role”, same a female who became a volunteer of “Medical Aid Services”.
3、Most volunteer’s identify of “gender role” are untypical. The major identify tended to “androgynous” or “undifferentiated”.
4、The major reason make people joining volunteer services is “making friends”.
5、For female or elderly, they will consider traffic and the advices from their relatives. |
