Motivation to volunteer data

The purpose of this study was to investigate the joint and independent contributions of power, security, conformity, tradition, benevolence, universalism, self-direction, stimulation, hedonism, as well as achievement values to the variance in the motivation to volunteer. The data were collected from 153 volunteers at Hawassa, Misrak and Mehal Sub-Cities, who were providing volunteering services in the city. Regression analysis indicated that the three most prominent factors that contributed significantly to the variance in motivation to volunteer were security, universalism, and self-direction. Analysis employing structure coefficients and discriminant analysis, nonetheless, added stimulation and power as important variables in predicting self-interested motivation to volunteer. These results plainly highlighted that the major contributing factors to self-interested motivation to volunteer were self-expressive orientation variables. In other words, volunteers displayed self-interested motivation to volunteer if they were not bothered for the stability of society in their relationships, had no value for the protection of all people, did not want to avoid the threat of uncertainties by controlling relationships or resources and were internally interested in personal judgment and uniqueness. This may have implication to volunteering service institutions in that there is a need of an intervention program intended for encouraging people to develop and to internalize other-oriented value priorities volunteer involvement in volunteering.