A Study of The Relationship Between Motivations And Happiness of Volunteers: A Case Study of Tzuchi Foundation Thailand

Abstract

This research has two objectives, as follows: 1) to study the history of Tzuchi Foundation in Thailand 2) to study the relationship between motivation and happiness of Tzuchi Foundation’s volunteers in Thailand. The samples were 208 Tzuchi Foundation’s volunteers in Thailand. The tools used for data collection were a questionnaire consisting of 1) general information of Tzuchi Foundation’s volunteers in Thailand 2) questions about motivation and happiness of the Tzuchi Foundation’s volunteers in Thailand. Statistics used in data analysis are Frequency Distribution, Percentage, Mean, Standard Deviation t-test, f-test, and Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient.

The results of the research showed that:

1) Tzuchi Foundation’s volunteers in Thailand had high level of motivation and happiness.

2) volunteer of Tzuchi Foundation Thailand with difference of gender, education level The marital status, health status, monthly income and number of age groups had no difference of motivation and happiness at significant level .05.

3) Volunteer of Tzuchi Foundation Thailand with difference of career, duration, and frequencies of working as volunteer had significant level of .05.

4) gender, age group, career, marital status, frequency of working as volunteer, health condition, number of children, have relationship to motivation and happiness of working as volunteer with rage of -.065 - .088 but there are no significance between them, except monthly income which had low level of positive relationship with happiness at significant level .05 and high level of positive relationship(r=.767) between motivation and happiness of working as volunteer at significant level .05.

This research suggests that people who as volunteer with high level motivation will have high level of happiness.

Keyword: motive, happiness, volunteer, TzuChi