Motivation and satisfaction of event volunteers for a major youth organization

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

“…In total, four factors were extracted with eigenvalues greater than one, accounting for 53% of the total variance explained. Although this amount is less than desirable, the majority of variance was accounted for and comparable to that explained by the SEVMS in previous studies (Farrell, et al, 1998;Johnston et al, 1999). Table 2 presents the final solution of 25 items with minor cross-loadings removed.…”

“…As noted earlier, several studies (Johnston et al, 1999;Khoo & Engelhorn, 2007) have performed such analysis on the SEVMS scale and found a varying number of resulting factors, indicating the scales' factor structure is not constant. Given the intention of the study was to use the resulting factors to form the clusters, not to confirm the structure of the scale and its component factors, EFA was deemed appropriate for current purposes.…”

“…The Special Event Volunteer Motivation Scale (SEVMS) (Farrell, Johnston, & Twynam, 1998) is the most widely tested of these scales. 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.…”

“…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.…”

A strategic analysis of volunteer tourism organisations

“…Although many such research projects are funded by such institutions as the World Bank and have produced a large number of technical papers (e.g. Crabbe & Smith, 2006;Jennings, Seymour, & Dunstone, 2006;May, 2005), a significant contribution to the understanding of sustainability at the micro-level has been achieved through the use of volunteers working on small-scale scientific projects The concept of volunteering has a long and established history in many subject (Stebbins, 1992;Stebbins & Graham, 2004;Uriely, Reichel, & Ron, 2003) areas; the volunteering literatures closest to tourism are: leisure (Parker, 1992), sport (Coleman, 2002;Cuskelly & Harrington, 1997;Gratton & Kokolakakis, 1997;Sport England, 1996 and events (Johnston, Twynam, & Farrell, 1999;Ralston, Lumsdon, & Downward, 2005;Solberg, 2003). The literature linked to volunteer tourism is fragmented with studies spanning a range of topics, for example: culture (McIntosh & Zahra, 2005); cultural exchange (Lyons, 2003); spirituality (Zahra, 2006); pilgrimage (Mustonen, 2005;Singh & Singh, 2004); self (Wearing, 2002(Wearing, , 2003Wearing & Deane, 2003;Wearing & Neil, 2000); self development (Uriely et al, 2003); and environment and conservation (Broad, 2003;Ellis, 2003;Halpeny & Caissie, 2003;Ryan, Kaplan, & Grese, 2001;Weston, Fendley, Jewell, Satchell, & Tazaros, 2003).…”