The motives of institutional volunteer work in rural areas Sharkia Governorate

Document Type : Original Article

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Agric. Econ. Dept., Branch of Rural Sociol., Fac. Agric., Zagazig Univ., Egypt

Abstract

The study aimed to: Identify the level of the motives of rural volunteers (Preventive, Values, Functional, Social interaction, Understanding, Progress and success) for institutional volunteer work, Test the significance of differences in the motives of rural volunteers for institutional volunteer work according to the gender variable, Identify the most important obstacles (personal, social and cultural, financial, administrative and organizational, and legislative) that hinder institutional volunteer work from the point of view of the researched, And to identify the most important suggestions for activating institutional volunteer work from the point of view of the researched. The study was conducted using the social survey method, and were selected Resala Charity Organization "Belbeis Branch", and Resala Charity Organization "Deirb Negm Branch" by the simple random sampling method. The sample size of the volunteers reached 130 volunteers in the two societies, including 90 volunteers in Belbeis branch, 40 volunteers in Deirb Negm branch. Data were collected by using an electronic questionnaire via Google Forms during the period from the beginning of August until end September 2020. Data were analyzed and presented using frequencies and percentages, mean, weighted average, Cronbach's Alpha coefficient, T-test. The results showed that the motivations of the volunteers' in descending order according to the weighted average is: Values Motives, protective motives, social interaction motives, understanding motives, success and progress motives, and functional motives, where the weighted average value was 61.3, 57, 53.5, 50, 45 and 30.2 respectively. Also the result showed significant differences at the level of 0.01 in each of the social interaction motives, the preventive motives of rural volunteers for institutional volunteer work for the benefit of the female with the highest mean of 30.45 and 30.21, respectively. Also the results indicated that the order of the obstacles that hinder institutional volunteer work from the viewpoint of the rural volunteers is: Financial obstacles, Social and cultural obstacles, legislative obstacles, administrative and organizational obstacles, and personal obstacles, where the weighted average value was 275.6, 269.4, 268.6, 249.6, and 245.6, respectively.

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