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‘Young, Fun, and Free:’ Episodic Volunteers in Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania

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As scholarship on episodic volunteering expands, researchers question if episodic volunteering is similar to, and/or different from, long-term, membership-based volunteering. This article examines the motivations of Ghanaians, South Africans, and Tanzanians to engage in event-based, episodic volunteering. Based on surveys collected from over 1000 participants in 2018, we use logistic regression models to distinguish differences in motivations between novice, occasional, and regular episodic volunteers. The results show that age and student status are influential in distinguishing novice volunteers from regular volunteers, but more importantly that novices are motivated for primarily social reasons, while regular volunteers are motivated by more altruistic reasons. Our study reinforces established knowledge that people are motivated to volunteer for many reasons that may overlap or occur simultaneously, and that these motivations differ by stage of life.

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  1. In the opening article of this Special Issue of Voluntas, Cnaan, Meijs, Brudney, Hersberger-Langloh, Okada, and Abu Rumman (Forthcoming) present a comprehensive definition and explanation of episodic volunteering, as well as an introduction to the broader episodic volunteering project, of which the present article is a part.

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    Sara Compion

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    Ram A. Cnaan

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  4. University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, USA

    Jeffrey L. Brudney

  5. Kean University, Union, USA

    Bok Gyo Jeong

  6. Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

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Compion, S., Cnaan, R.A., Brudney, J.L. et al. ‘Young, Fun, and Free:’ Episodic Volunteers in Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania. Voluntas 33, 443–458 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-021-00324-y

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