청소년 특성에 따른 자원봉사활동 성숙단계 인식에 관한 연구

Abstract

This study set out to compare adolescents in terms of mature perceptions of volunteer service including the institutional understanding of volunteer service activities, changes to their personal values and life attitudes through volunteering, sociodemographic characteristics of settlement of volunteer service activities as part of culture, and opportunities and experiences of volunteer activities. The study also aimed to search for ways to raise the maturity level of their volunteer service activities by the stages. The subjects include 246 middle school students whose survey responses were statistically treated. The findings were as follows: as for the maturity level of volunteer service activities according to the grade, the eighth graders scored higher points in the system and understanding of volunteering than the ninth graders. There were no differences in the perceptions of maturity levels of volunteer service activities according to the grade and living standard. As for the maturity level of volunteer service activities according to the motivation for volunteering, those who did volunteer service activities voluntarily scored higher points in the institution and understanding domain and the cultural settlement domain than those who did to get volunteer points or by the recommendation of others. As for the maturity level according to the frequency of volunteering, those who did once a month or more frequently scored higher points in the institution and understanding, spread of values, and cultural settlement domains than those who did once a quarter or less frequently or had no experiences of volunteering. Those findings indicate that there were different perception patterns of maturity levels of volunteer service activities experienced by adolescents according to the sociodemographic characteristics, motivations for volunteer activities, and degrees of experiences.