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    Exploring the Factors Influencing Volunteer Motivation: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Personal Values, Barriers, and Socio-Demographic Variables
    (Addis Ababa University, 2024-05) Habtemariam Kassa; Tamirie Andualem (Ass. Prof.)
    This study was aimed at examining the barriers to volunteerism within organizations, investigating correlations between individual religiosity, universalism, power, achievement, hedonism, stimulation, self-direction, benevolence, tradition, conformity, security, and volunteer motivation, exploring the contributions of universalism, power, achievement, hedonism, stimulation, self-direction, benevolence, tradition, conformity, security to volunteer motivation, and probing contributing factors to barriers to volunteerism from multiple perspectives. The data were collected from 203 volunteers who were providing volunteer services in Hawassa, Misrak, and Mehal Ketema Sub-Cities. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used. Means, standard deviations, logistic regression, discriminant analyses, item and factor analyses, t-tests, bar charts, and content analysis were used to examine the data gathered from the two volunteer groups. Altruistic volunteers demonstrate a preference for collective interest values, such as benevolence, tradition, and conformity, while self-interested volunteers prioritize individual interest values, including power, achievement, hedonism, stimulation, and self-direction. Logistic regression reveals that approximately 55.5% of the variability in volunteer motivation can be explained by included independent variables, highlighting the predictive power of value orientations. Moreover, the regularly occurring forms of barriers to volunteerism comprised a scarcity of resources to facilitate volunteerism, the condition of being negligent, apathy towards the needy, an absence of transparency, disrespect, a lack of skilled human resources, and a lack of awareness of volunteerism. It was found that the barriers to volunteerism had increased in the last couple of years. Because of this, volunteer service organizations may need to consider developing an intervention program designed to help people acquire and internalize other-oriented values as priorities when it comes to volunteering. Keywords: religiosity, values, volunteerism, volunteers