Title
Faith-Based Volunteer Motivation: Exploring the Applicability of the Volunteer Functions Inventory to the Motivations and Satisfaction Levels of Volunteers in an Australian Faith-Based Organisation
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-2016
Publication Details
This article was originally published as:
Erasmus, B., & Morey, P. J. (2016). Faith-based volunteer motivation: Exploring the applicability of the volunteer functions inventory to the motivations and satisfaction levels of volunteers in an Australian faith-based organisation. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 27(3), 1343-1360. doi: 10.1007/s11266-016-9717-0
ISSN: 1573-7888
ANZSRC / FoR Code
150305 Human Resources Management| 150311 Organisational Behaviour| 160702 Counselling, Welfare and Community Services| 170111 Psychology of Religion| 170113 Social and Community Psychology
Avondale Research Centre
Spirituality and Worship Research Centre
Reportable Items
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Abstract
Increasingly studies on volunteer motivation are exploring the process stages of volunteerism with particular attention to recruitment and retention. Volunteer experience and its dynamic association to satisfaction, however, remain underexamined, particularly in faith-based contexts. This study uses a functional approach to explore the applicability of the Volunteer Functions Inventory (Clary et al. in J Personal Soc Psychol, 74(6):1516–1530, 1998) to a sample of volunteers in an Australian faith-based organization. Factor analysis was supportive of a four-factor solution with the elimination of the Protective function and the emergence of a new function, Enrichment. The validity of a new structure, the Faith-Based Volunteer Motivation Scale, is tested against levels of volunteer satisfaction for this sample. Results concur with Clary et al.’s correlation between high-level motive fulfilment and degrees of satisfaction.
Recommended Citation
Erasmus, B., & Morey, P. J. (2016). Faith-based volunteer motivation: Exploring the applicability of the volunteer functions inventory to the motivations and satisfaction levels of volunteers in an Australian faith-based organisation. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 27(3), 1343-1360. doi: 10.1007/s11266-016-9717-0
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