Nowadays interests about giving and volunteering as social welfare service fields have been increasing. But most of the further studies used very limited samples as well as scopes of private social resources. By bearing such fact in mind, this study tried to examine giving and volunteering behaviors and to find related factors by utilizing more reliable sample data. In the study, panel data of the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs(2006, 2007) were used to identify this model. Panel data were analyzed by statistical methods such as Logistic Regression, Structural Equation Model(SEM) Analysis through SPSS Win 12.0K and AMOS 7.0.
This study analyzed two phases to identify the determinant factors of giving and volunteering behaviors.
First phase:
Background factor, personal factor, and situational factor were composed of independent variables of the study model. Dependent variables of the model were two variables: total amount of giving and total frequency of voluntary actions. According to the statistical result, the Logistic Regression Analysis revealed that background factor, personal factor and situational factor influenced on the dependent variables.
Second Phase:
In examining the SEM Analysis of the study model, three factors were related as follows; background factor influenced on the personal factor, personal factor influenced on the situational factor, and situational factor influenced on the dependent variables.
Suggestions of this study are as following.
First, this study model confirmed that Smith's Sequential Specificity Model of volunteering could include giving action, and presented possibility that can extend action of blood donation, organ donation and so on.
Second, this study discovered that giving and voluntary action pass through sequential specific process. This study is supplying important information in other various study of charities.
By limitation of this study, different view can exist about independent variables.