Construct validity of the special event volunteer motivation scale for Greek volunteers

Are All My Volunteers Here to Help Out? Clustering Event Volunteers by Their Motivations

“…Additionally, two items loading on the current Solidary factor, while loading on different factors in Farrell et al's study, have loaded on the Solidary factor in subsequent replications [e.g., the Purposive item "It is a chance of a lifetime" loaded on Twynam et al's (2002) and Johnston et al's (1999) Solidary factor], while the External Traditions item "I want an opportunity to meet the players and see the event" also loaded on Twynam et al's (2002) Solidary factor. Grammatikopoulos et al (2006) in conducting Confirmatory Factor Analysis on the SEVMS scale items using Greek volunteers noted that previous studies had found the Solidary and Purposive subscales to be distinct motivational dimensions, which in light of their findings, "may represent stable reasons for volunteering, irrespective of cultural context" (p. 301). Like the findings of Johnston et al's (1999) study, the items representing External Traditions and Commitments combined on one factor in this study.…”

“…It has been applied by Farrell and colleagues to single events: a women's curling championship (Farrell et al, 1998), a scout jamboree (Johnston, Twynam, & Farrell, 1999), and a world junior curling event (Twynam, Farrell, & Johnston, 2002). It has subsequently been tested by other researchers, including Khoo and Engelhorn (2007) at the Malaysian Paralympiad, Reeser, Berg, Rhea, and Willick (2005) at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, Grammatikopoulos, Koustelios, and Tsigilis (2006) at YMCA children's summer camps, and an adaptation used by Dickson, Benson, Blackman, and Terwiel (2013) to assess volunteer motives at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. Much of this body of work focuses on conducting either Exploratory or Confirmatory Factor Analysis to explore the latent dimensions of the SEVMS scale, followed by descriptive profiling of volunteers relative to these dimensions.…”

“…These last two factors merged into one in Johnston et al's (1999) later study. Grammatikopoulos et al (2006) do highlight that the developers' attempts at replicating the SEVMS (Farrell et al, 1998;Johnston et al, 1999) the literature to single-site studies were applied. Strigas and Jackson (2003) called for event volunteering motivational research to encompass different sport and recreation settings, different countries and cultures, and different types and scales of sporting events.…”

Comparison of Volunteer Motivations in Different Youth Sport Organizations

“…Clary, Snyder, and Stukas (1996) indicated that differences may also exist in motivations among volunteers in different organizational settings and even within different areas of the same organization. A number of researchers conducting sport volunteerism studies have already speculated that volunteers in mega-sport events may possess different kinds of motivation from volunteers in local participatory sports (e.g., Farrell, Johnston, & Twynam, 1998;Grammatikopoulos, Koustelios, & Tsigilis, 2006;Johnston, Twynam, & Farrell, 2000;Strigas & Jackson, 2003). Despite the possible difference in volunteer motivation in different settings, volunteer motivations have been commonly studied as a universal concept and volunteers in different settings have been regarded as a collective group.…”

Proud to be British: An Autoethnographic Study of Working as a Games Maker at London 2012

“…The act of volunteering is not limited to a specific area, yet a sport event volunteering definition builds on the perspective that this type of volunteering differs from others, as it is does not necessarily have to be subject to repetition, but may be a "one-off" activity (Grammatikopoulos, Koustelios, & Tsigilis, 2006) or episodic volunteering (Brudney, 2005). However, here it is more the "one-off" activity even though it stretches in duration over a long timeframe.…”