Unlike formal education, 4-H youth activities are voluntary educational experiences.
Members choose to participate and some, unfortunately, choose to drop out.
Still, findings conflict and youth workers are far from understanding the reasons for continued participation or dropout from the 4-H program. Dissatisfaction with participation has been found to be highly associated with quitting.2 Theories of participation in adult education include satisfaction as an important precursor to dropout or continuance.3 To understand participation and persistence and dropout, it also makes sense to include studies of factors related to satisfaction with participation. This study was designed to investigate satisfaction with participation in 4-H among older youth. The major purpose was to determine factors related to their satisfaction with 4-H activities. The second objective was to determine which factors best predict satisfaction.