What motivated high school students to engage in volunteer work?
- With the aim of improving our society for the betterTokyo Metropolitan Oizumi High School
Introduction

Conclusion

I strongly believe in the importance of doing volunteer work. People
whom I met in India and Vietnam did volunteer work a lot, and it was partof their daily lives. I also joined some volunteer work and learned manythings from my experiences of doing volunteer work.
However, in my school life in Japan, I have never talked about volunteer
work with my friends. Although the number of people who are doing
volunteer work has been increasing in Japan since 1993, it can be said it isstill lower than other countries. Thus I started to think “Is it okay to be inthis situation?”. That is why I chose volunteer work as the theme of thestudy with the goal of helping to increase the number of high school
students who are doing volunteer work.

Defining volunteer work

Extrinsic

Intrinsic

・Service Learning
・Community service↓
Education programs

・Volunteer work
“Service donewithout obligation”

Students who are actively doing volunteer work:
1. From the viewpoint of volunteers, volunteering does not equal self-sacrifice
2. They clearly understand the connection between what they want to get fromvolunteer work and what they can learn from it.
→It leads to them doing volunteer work with high motivation
The factor which makes high school students engage in volunteer work enthusiasticallyand continuously is to recognize the effects on volunteers.

The importance of understanding the effect on volunteers
Having a lot of opportunities to know what kind of advantages people can get
through volunteer work can be effective to spread volunteer work.

Results
Major motives:
・Altruistic motives
・Self-oriented motives→ Show high motivation

The effect on volunteers (Senoo・Takagi,2003)
1. Increasing altruistic spirit
2. Creating human relationships
3. Zest for living

Motive of the person who
selected “Motivated a little”→”Family recommended”

It can be said that the students’ volunteer activities have two aspects:
contribution to society and personal growth

The situation in Japan

Fig2.”Why did you decide to do volunteer work?”

Motivation and the effect on volunteerscorrespondence
・“To build new relationships”→”Built new relationships”
・”To contribute to society”→”Felt being able to contribute to society”

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Fig3.Motivation for volunteer work

No one selected“Nothing was good”↓Everyone gets someadvantages from doing
volunteer work.

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Fig1. “Are you interested in volunteering?”(International Survey of Youth* Attitude 2018, Cabinet office, 2019.)

Japan: Interest in volunteer work: Yes 33.3％ No 48.1％
Youth in Japan are not very interested in volunteer work.

１*Ages:13-29

Previous research ＜Three types of motive (Yamamoto,2018)＞
Self-oriented motives(e.g., To build new relationships)

Required motives

Altruistic motives(e.g. Teacher recommended it)(e.g., To contribute to society)

Gives negative impressions forvolunteer work and reduces
willingness for volunteer work
→ not interested in volunteering
after graduating high school

Gives positive impressions forvolunteer work and Increases
willingness for volunteer work
→Still interested in volunteering
after graduating high school

motivation
motivation→Why is motivation created and how is theviewpoint of volunteer work formed?
→Find out the common points of high school
students who are volunteering.

MethodI performed the survey in three high schools in Tokyo (a private girls’ school,a private co-educational school, and a public co-educational school), with a
total of 67 students from volunteer clubs responding.
Two schools used google forms to answer the questionnaire the other usedpaper.

Fig4. “What was the good thing about doing volunteer work?”

Average number of
options students
selected:
2.5/5 options↓Reflects thewillingness tocontinue doing
volunteer work
Fig5. “What kind of volunteer work do you want to do in the future?”
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GratitudeI deeply appreciate my teachers and teaching advisers who helped me a lot and the high school students whocooperated in answering my survey.