At the commencement of research, a Hungarian adaptation of the VMI based on 200 responses is available, enhanced by results relating to three new posited motivation factors - religion, societal failure and governmental failure.
The previous representative surveys examined volunteering among the whole population, and conclusively we know little about formal volunteers working with organisations. The standardisation of the Hungarian Motivation Questionnaire will be based on the Central Statistical Office’s volunteerism database. Based on this, the multi-layered sample will be separately examined
- by reference to different areas of activity,
- by reference to volunteers in the capital and volunteers in the rest of the country.
- Furthermore, survey of organisations in a given subject area in the capital or the rest of the country would be conducted in equal proportions within six age groups (18-25, 26-35, 36-45, 46-55, 56-65, 66-), as there is no data as to specific distributions of motivations within age groups, but there is evidence that age is a crucial differentiator of volunteer motivations.
The Hungarian Volunteer Motivation Questonnaire would survey 13 motivational factors along 53 questions at a sample size of 2,500 volunteers, and standardise these factor (values, reciprocity, recognition/prestige, understanding/compassion, self-realisation, reactivity, social, protectivity, social contacts, career development, religion, communal failure, governmental failure). Furthermore, it would assess the respondent volunteer’s socio-statistical characteristics (gender, age, place of residence, educational history employment, income, household size, educational history of the father, religious allegiance) and information with regard to volunteering history (commencement of volunteer activity, location, frequency, average hours worked).
The data would be collected in SPSS and evaluated for frequencies, distributions, correlations and regression, to reveal, first, the standard values of individual motivation factors, second, to examine these values within the context of social and volunteer-specific characteristics.
