A Study of the Participation Attitude and Recreation Perception of the Voluntary Workers -an Example by GFC Culture & Education Foundation

[[abstract]]The purpose of this study was to realize the personal characteristics, participation attitude and recreation perception of the voluntary workers by Chung-You Culture and Education Foundation, to explore the difference among participation attitude and recreation perception due to diversified background and relationship between participation attitude and recreation perception of the voluntary workers. “The measurement of the participation attitude and recreation perception of voluntary workers” edited by researcher herself was designed as questionnaire for survey. The questionnaires were issued to the total 199 voluntary workers. 126 subjects were effective. The survey was contented in two weeks in May 2009. After descriptive statistic, reliability and validity analysis, factor analysis, one-way ANOVA, Scheffe’s and Person’s correlation analysis it was found that attitude of participation in voluntary service was very good in general, participation attitude of the volunteers was influenced by support of family member, and there were eminent difference in participation attitude among diversified service seniority. The voluntary workers in captioned foundation accepted the conception of “voluntary service was one kind of recreation” in general and also recognized that voluntary work had some function of recreation, but not fully regard voluntary service as recreation activity. There was a positive correlation between participation attitude and recreation conception of the voluntary workers. That was the more positive in participation attitude, the clearer in perceive serving as recreation. Based on the results of the study to suggested the foundation that they should strengthen persuasion or propagation to the family members, to set up communication between voluntary workers with different service seniority, and to propose a strategy to promote willingness of volunteer to stay in foundation for continual service, in order to reduce cost incurred by human resources lost. To try to invite family members of volunteer to attend enable them to realize service items of the foundation, contents of the service, and share the grow experience of the service. And suggest to conduct a qualitative interview to the senior volunteers or focus on major group in some successive study, to explore the willingness of volunteer to stay in foundation to provide continual service, service restrict factors, management system, influence on carrier planning etc. or quantitative analysis of participation motive, satisfaction degree in other to improve management planning, to avoid interruption of service experience, to solve the problem of recruitment or lost of voluntary workers. Keywords: voluntary worker, participation manner, recreation conception