Job Satisfaction among Volunteers of the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games

Abstract

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in English; abstract also in Chinese. Volunteer contribution has been indispensable for successful sport events. Many studies have been conducted to understand motivations of volunteers. However, investigation of volunteer satisfaction for sports events has been left untouched. The present study attempted to make the first step in filling this research gap. Quantitative survey was conducted among 314 volunteers for 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games. The results indicated that volunteers were nearly satisfied with their work (M=3.49, SD=0.50). And they were more satisfied with the sense of “my contribution was valuable” (M =4.10, SD=0.82), “sense of achievement” (M=4.00, SD=0.91), “I accumulated useful experience in the service” (M=3.98, SD=0.86) and “mutual support among colleagues” (M=3.92, SD=0.87). Volunteers with very much knowledge about persons with ID tended to have significant higher satisfaction than those without or with little of certain knowledge (F=3.28, df=2, p <.001)，壓力越低，滿意度越