노인대상 자원봉사자의 활동유효성에 영향을 미치는 관련요인

A Study on Factors Affecting Activity Validity of Volunteers Working for the Aged

This study aimed to devise a scheme to allow volunteers participating in works related to the aged to improve satisfaction with activity commitment, and willingness to continue those activities despite difficulties in the practice. To do this, a survey was conducted with volunteers participating in tasks related to the aged at social welfare centers and senior welfare centers in Gyeonggi Province; regression analysis was performed with a total of 165 questionnaires. To test the effects of socio-demographic characteristics on activity validity, hierarchical regression analysis was carried out; as a result, education and health state were found to be significant. Such sub-factors of sociopsychological motives as value-oriented attitudes and implicit expectation needs were statistically significant. These results show that those in charge of volunteer work need to find and train volunteers with a strong sense of social responsibility for enhancing volunteer activity validity. Among organizational property factors, recognition and rewards were found to have significant effects on activity validity. Therefore, it needs construction of recognition and reward systems in several forms for reinforcing volunteer activity validity.