Motivational Strategies on Volunteering Intention among University Students

Al Amirul Eimer Ramdzan Ali,Mohd Azrul Azlen Abd Hamid

doi:10.6007/ijarped/v9-i2/7966

Abstract

The concept of volunteering is more than just spending one’s time in activities that bring benefit to others. Volunteering has a greater impact on society at a larger scale. University’s students who actively involved in volunteering activities are of great help to the community as they will have a better chance in learning new opportunities and building new networking people from the industry. This paper aims to investigate the motivational strategies namely intrinsic and extrinsic motivation on volunteering intention among university students. The concept of religiosity is introduced as part of the motivational strategies as it is proven to be one of the students’ motivational factor to volunteer.

Highlights

In today’s era, volunteerism has become extremely vital in any society, among other reasons, because it includes people who benefit from their service (McCloughan, Batt, Costine & Scully, 2011)
Students are more likely to develop few critical skills such as time management and critical thinking, and others while volunteering. Students must take this opportunity to engage in any volunteering activity as the students will have better chance of employment
This is because employers are most likely to choose a candidate with vase experience in volunteering. This conceptual study has elaborated the motivational strategies that give an impact on volunteering intention among university students

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Introduction

In today’s era, volunteerism has become extremely vital in any society, among other reasons, because it includes people who benefit from their service (McCloughan, Batt, Costine & Scully, 2011). In order to create that awareness, more than one billion people throughout the world involve in numerous volunteering work via public, for profit and non-profit organization (Salamon, Sokolowski & Haddock, 2011). This concept is closely related to the helping behavior among people and it ties to long or continuous commitment between both parties (Wilson, 2008 & Wilson, 2012). It is believed that, people who love to involve in volunteering work will develop a more positive behavior and healthier outlook (Sallam, Safizal & Osman, 2015) This is because, volunteers tend to perceive themselves as optimistic about their future as they feel empowered to assist and improve their community and have that burning motivation to help others who are in need.

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