Abstract
Egoistic motives play an important role for the involvement of college students in volunteering activities. This study extends the prior research to the Malaysian context and aims to emphasize on descriptive analysis of egoistic motives. A quantitative cross sectional survey research method was used to collect data. A self-administered questionnaire comprised of a demographic and an adaptation of Volunteer Function Inventory (VFI) was administered to samples from four public universities in Peninsular Malaysia. They were proportionately and randomly selected in the study. Data were analyzed using descriptive analysis. In a sample of 310, the results of the study revealed that egoistic motives in terms of career needs, self-protection and social needs were from high to very high level. The results also showed that the need to reduce the feeling of loneliness had recorded the highest mean of items. Besides, the results found that majority of the respondents acknowledged that egoistic motives were important for their involvement in volunteering activities. Meanwhile, 96 per cent of them acknowledged that the most important reason for their involvement in volunteering activities was to protect them from loneliness. The implications for theory and volunteers’ managerial practices are discussed and put forward.
Highlights
Volunteering plays a vital role for the development and wellbeing of a community
The result found that the majority of respondents (91.9%) agreed that they involved in volunteering activities in order to establish relationships with new contacts that could help in their career
This item had recorded the highest mean for the career motives (5.96).The results showed that majority (91.6%) of respondents admitted that they volunteered to enhance the value of their resume
Summary
Volunteering plays a vital role for the development and wellbeing of a community. the impact of volunteering is concern with productivity and responsibility of a citizen and the wellbeing of others. The government should give special attention to college students’ involvement in volunteering activities because they are a very significant population. They are future leaders who will continue the development and wellbeing of a society and nation (Azizan, 2004). They are highly educated people and the role model to community. They have strong power of peer influences because most of them are young people (Newman & Newman, 2006) and intellectuals see them as a potential group to influence their peers positively. College students responsible to meet part of the goals of a university that is to serve community
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