Abstract
This paper examined how the interdisciplinary field of volunteer motivation and creativity research helps improve our understanding of social issues. This research focused on the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake, which occurred on March 11, 2011, and discussed how volunteer motivations support volunteer activities, positive youth development and citizenship from the perspective of sociocultural and self-determination theories Next, volunteerism based on prosocial behaviors was explored, such as improvement of victims’ lives after the disaster. Despite the positive effect of volunteer activities on lifespan youth development, volunteer assistance within the stricken area has gradually declined during the past year compared to the period immediately after the disaster, when there were a substantial number of volunteers. To sustain volunteer motivation for longer periods, interdisciplinary studies within the areas of psychology and leisure are necessary. This research outlined three important interdisciplinary concepts, which are necessary to recover from the disaster: identity formation, collaborative creativity, and community citizenship. Volunteering as extracurricular activities for undergraduate and prospective teachers can strengthen their own and students’ rich and deep life course in future.
Highlights
This paper examined how the interdisciplinary field of volunteer motivation and creativity helps improve our understanding of social issues
In this paper the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake, which occurred on March 11, 2011 were focused on and discussed how volunteer motivations support volunteer activities from the perspective of sociocultural and self-determination theory
While this paper focuses on earthquake-related issues, the lessons learnt from the Great East Japan earthquake are generally applicable to the field of creativity and motivation studies
Summary
This paper examined how the interdisciplinary field of volunteer motivation and creativity helps improve our understanding of social issues. In this paper the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake, which occurred on March 11, 2011 were focused on and discussed how volunteer motivations support volunteer activities from the perspective of sociocultural and self-determination theory. Such motivational perspectives are important in addressing potential solutions toward the goal of social recovery. Interdisciplinary research provides opportunities to discuss the issue of volunteerism among many academic fields through the development of integrative, contextual, and theoretically driven critical analyses. Volunteerism after the Great East Japan Earthquake will be discussed from an interdisciplinary cultural perspective, which links motivation research and creativity. This research outlines three important interdisciplinary concepts, which are necessary to recover from the disaster: identity formation, collaborative creativity, and community citizenship
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