자원봉사활동 참여 의사결정

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to better recognize how Korean people make participation decisions for volunteer activities. This study also aims to provide improved knowledge on what and how factors associated with socio-demographic and leisure characteristics among Koreans afefct their decisions for volunteer participation and time engaging activities. Using a secondary national usrvey data (N=10,030) released by the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism, we estimated several models (i.e., OLS, Tobit, and double-hurdle models) to identify the best fitting model. As a result, the double-hurdle model was chosen as our final model that shows respondents’ decision-making for volunteer participation. The model indicated that Korean people participated in different volunteer activities through using a two-step approach. The double-hurdle model also provided empirical evidence that younger Korean people were moer willing to participate in volunteer activ-i ties while older people spend more time engaging in the activieits. Furthermore, respondents who reported their leisure club membership and more vacation days were revealed to have higher possibility of participating in volunteer activities. Based on several research findings, w ediscussed multiple policies for enhancing level s of volunteer participation.