Thus, regardless of the type of 4-H activity, importance should be placed on the design of the activity to produce opportunities for responsibility and contribution to others. Positive parental involvement was highly related to satisfaction, yet past and current family involvement with 4-H other than with the member's experiences had no relationship with satisfaction. This conclusion suggests that the member's perceptions of support by his or her parent, not actual parental involvement, leads to satisfaction. A parent who has never been involved with 4-H, yet supports a child in his or her participation, can provide as positive an experience as those parents who are past members or even current advisers. Very low relationships were found between satisfaction and some previously studied factors of number and type of projects taken, adviser participation, peer pressure, and tenure as a 4-H member.
Many resources are devoted to project book development.
Much emphasis has been placed on volunteer adviser development. Peer pressure has been lamented as a great deterrent to participation and policy has been built on the belief that the longer the 4-H member stays involved, the more likely he or she will continue. This study failed to give additional support to these four variables as important to an older 4-Her's satisfaction. Urban and rural youth exhibited no differences in their satisfaction, even though traditionally those programs have been vastly different in their approach and activities. More study is needed to investigate the differences among urban and rural 4-H programs and the ultimate effects, if any, these differences spawn.