A comparative study between Australian and South African university sport students volunteer motives and constraints
Van Den Berg, Liandi; Cuskelly, G.; Auld, C.
Volunteering plays an integral part in the success of numerous South African and Australian
organisations and university students have been identified as a latent target population with the
greatest potential for volunteering. Organisations who wish to recruit students should be
knowledgeable regarding their motives and constraints in order to increase community and sport
volunteer activities. The purpose of this study was to identify and compare the motives and
constraints influencing volunteerism amongst South African and Australian sport students. A
non-probability convenience sampling design was used to collect data from 278 South African
and 208 Australian students enrolled in a sport curriculum at two universities in the Gauteng
province and three universities within the Queensland area. The volunteer questionnaire
developed by Auld and Cuskelly (2001) was used to gather data. The study identified slight
egoistic differences in volunteer constraining and motivating factors between South African and
Australian sport students. However, students from both countries indicated a low social
motivation factor but an equal perceived confidence in their ability to solve problems when
volunteering. The comparative results could aid organisations to broaden their current
recruitment operations.
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