Motivation types of volunteers, their personality traits and subjective well-being

Zager Kocjan, Gaja (author), Podobnik, Blaž (author), Avsec, Andreja (author)

Using a person-centered approach, this study sought to identify motivation types of volunteers based on their pattern of motives for volunteering and to compare volunteer types in terms of personality and subjective well-being. A two-step cluster analysis conducted on a sample of 441 volunteers revealed four clusters: integrated high function (high on all motives); integrated low function (low on all motives); self-oriented (primarily motivated to advance own career); other-oriented (primarily motivated to pursue values to help others). The other-oriented and the integrated high function clusters reported the highest levels of extraversion, agreeableness, and openness. While satisfaction with volunteering, subjective well-being, and satisfaction of the needs for relatedness and competence were highest in the integrated high function cluster, the other-oriented cluster exhibited the highest satisfaction of the need for autonomy. Our results complement the dimensional approaches to volunteer motivation and show that optimal motivation is achieved by pursuing multiple motives.

• Language: English
• Keywords: volunteer motivation, volunteers, motivation, subjective well-being, subjective well being, psychological needs, basic needs satisfaction, need satisfaction, personality traits, five factor personality model, the Big Five, person-centered approach
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2024
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 199-214
• Numbering: Vol. 57, iss. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-155799
• UDC: 159.923.3:005.966.2
• ISSN on article: 1451-9283
• DOI: 10.2298/PSI220623015A
• COBISS.SI-ID: 168718851

Note

KLJUČNE BESEDE: prostovoljci, motivacija, subjektivno blagostanje, psihološke potrebe, zadovoljenost potreb, osebnostne lastnosti, petfaktorski model osebnosti

• Publication date in RUL: 18.04.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Psihologija
• Shortened title: Psihologija
• Publisher: Društvo psihologa Srbije
• ISSN: 1451-9283
• COBISS.SI-ID: 524315161

Licences

• License: CC BY-SA 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Description: This Creative Commons license is very similar to the regular Attribution license, but requires the release of all derivative works under this same license.

Secondary language

• Language: Serbian (cyrillic)
• Title: Tipovi motivacije kod volontera, njihove osobine ličnosti i subjektivno blagostanje

Abstract

Korišćenjem pristupa usmerenog ka osobi, ova studija je imala za cilj da identifikuje tipove motivacije volontera na osnovu šema motiva za volontiranje kao i da poredi tipove volontera u pogledu njihove ličnosti i subjektivnog blagostanja. Klaster analiza iz dva koraka, sprovedena na uzorku od 441 volontera, ukazuje na postojanje četiri klastera: integrisani visoko funkcionalni (sa visokim skorovima na svim motivima); integrisani nisko funkcionalni (sa niskim skorovima na svim motivima); okrenuti ka sebi (eng. self-oriented; primarno motivisani da unaprede sopstvenu karijeru); okrenuti ka drugima (eng. other-oriented; primarno motivisani da teže vrednostima pomaganja drugima). Volonteri koje spadaju u klastere okrenuti ka drugima i integrisani visoko funkcionalni pokazuju najviše nivoe ekstraverzije, saradljivosti i otvorenosti. Sa druge strane, dok su zadovoljstvo volontiranjem, subjektivno blagostanje i zadovoljenje potreba za povezanošću i komptencijom su bili najviši kod integrisanog visoko funkcionalnog klastera, volonteri koji spadaju u klaster okrenuti ka drugima poseduju najviše skorove na zadovoljenju potrebe za autonomijom. Naši rezultati dopunjavaju dimenzionalni pristup motivaciji volontera i pokazuju da se optimalna motivacija može postići putem pokušaja zadovoljenja više motiva.

• Keywords: motivacija volontera, subjektivno blagostanje, zadovoljenje osnovnih potreba, Velikih Pet, pristup usmeren ka osobi

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P5-0110
• Name: Psihološki in nevroznanstveni vidiki kognicije