Assessing Volunteer Motives: A Comparison of an Open-ended Probe and Likert Rating Scales

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 243-255

  Allison, Lora D ^a   Okun, Morris A ^b   Dutridge, Kathy S ^b  

^a St Margaret's Episcopal School   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounts; Assessment; Functional approach; Motives; Volunteering

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142055296     PISSN: 10529284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/casp.677     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Anastasi, A. (1968). Psychological testing (3rd ed.). London: MacMillan.
2. Brudney, J. L., & Brown, M. M. (1990). Training in volunteer administration: assessing the needs of the field. Journal of Volunteer Administration, 9, 21-28.
3. Carlo, G., Okun, M. A., Knight, G., & De Guzman, M. R. T. (2002). Prosocial value motivation as a mediator and moderator of the relations between agreeableness, extroversion, and volunteerism. submitted for publication.
4. Clary, E. G., & Orenstein, L. (1991). The amount and effectiveness of help: the relationship of motives and abilities to helping behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 17, 58-64.
5. Clary, E. G., & Snyder, M. (1999). The motivations to volunteer: theoretical and practical considerations. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 8, 156-159.
6. Clary, E. G., Snyder, M., & Ridge, R. (1992). Volunteers' motivations: a functional strategy for the recruitment, placement, and retention of volunteers. Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 2, 333-350.
7. Clary, E. G., Snyder, M., Ridge, R. D., Copeland, J., Stukas, A. A., Haugen, J., & Miene, P. (1998). Understanding and assessing the motivations of volunteers: a functional approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1516-1530.
8. Clary, E. G., Snyder, M., Ridge, R. D., Miene, P. K., & Haugen, J. A. (1994). Matching messages to motives in persuasion: a functional approach to promoting volunteerism. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 24, 1129-1149.
9. Cnaan, R., & Goldberg-Glen, R. S. (1991). Measuring motivation to volunteer in human services. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 27, 269-284.
10. Edwards, P. K., & Watts, A. D. (1983). Volunteerism and human service organizations: trends and prospects. Journal of Applied Social Sciences, 7, 225-245.
11. Fleiss, J. L. (1981). Statistical methods for rates and proportions (2nd ed.). New York: Wiley.
12. Gidron, B. (1984). Predictors of retention and turnover among service volunteer workers. Journal of Social Service Research, 8, 1-16.
13. Nathanson, I. L., & Eggleton, E. (1993). Motivation versus program effect on length of service: a study of four cohorts of ombudservice volunteers. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 19, 95-114.
14. Okun, M. A. (1994). Relation between motives for organizational volunteering and frequency of volunteering by elders. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 13, 115-126.
15. Okun, M. A., Barr, A., & Herzog, A. R. (1998). Motivation to volunteer by older adults: a test of competing measurement models. Psychology and Aging, 13, 608-621.
16. Omoto, A. M., & Snyder, M. (1995). Sustained helping without obligation: motivation, longevity of service, and perceived attitude change among AIDS volunteers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68, 671-686.
17. Paulhus, D. L. (1984). Two-component models of socially desirable responding. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 46, 598-609.
18. Paulhus, D. L. (1991). Measurement and control of response bias. In J. P. Robinson, P. R. Shaver, & L. S. Wrightsman (Eds.), Measures of personality and social psychological attitudes: Volume 1 (pp. 17-59). New York: Academic Press.
19. Penner, L. A., & Finkelstein, M. A. (1998). Dispositional and structural determinants of volunteerism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 525-537.
20. Scott, M. B., & Lyman, S. M. (1968). Accounts. American Sociological Review, 33, 46-62.
21. Smith, D. H. (1981). Altruism, volunteers, and volunteerism. Journal of Voluntary Action Research, 10, 21-36.
22. Weinstein, R. M. (1978). The avowal of motives for marijuana behavior. The International Journal of the Addictions, 13, 887-910.