Application of planned behavior theory to predicting volunteer enrollment by college students in a campus-based program

By M. Okun, Erin S. Sloane. 2002

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The present study tested two hypotheses derived from the theory of planned behavior regarding volunteer enrollment by college students in a campus-based program. Undergraduates ( N = 647) enrolled in eight sections of Introduction to Psychology received a recruitment message for volunteering through a campus-based program. Following exposure to the recruitment message, students completed a questionnaire and two months later the enrollment records of the campus-based program were checked. Consistent with the theory of planned behavior, attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control predicted intent –  and intent, in turn, predicted volunteer enrollment in the campus-based program. However, less than 33% of the students with the maximum possible intention score of six subsequently enrolled to volunteer in the campus-based program.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• THE THREE-STAGE MODEL OF VOLUNTEERS' DURATION OF SERVICE (2007, unknown): “Recently, behavioral intention has been used for predicting joining of volunteer organizations (Okun & Sloane, 2002; Warburton & Terry, 2000), hours dedicated to volunteerism (Greenslade & White, 2005), and actual duration of service in volunteerism (Dávila, 2003; Vecina, 2001; Vecina et al., 2001;…”
• Predictors of Young People's Charitable Intentions to Donate Money: An Extended Theory of Planned Behavior Perspective (2012, unknown): “To date, a small number of studies have applied the TPB in the charitable giving context (e.g., Greenslade & White, 2005; Harrison, 1995; Okun & Sloane, 2002; Warburton & Terry, 2000), with only one study using the TPB to examine the donation of money (Smith & McSweeney, 2007).”