| dc.description.abstract | In the era of big data, service is a virtuous behavior by taking the initiative to participate in social public affairs. The participation scale and responsibility of service must be expanded. In your service experience, have you encountered any inappropriate behaviors of volunteers? Talents, virtues of helping others and welfare activities; devoting themselves to welfare at their free will, mental health and community development; organizational altruistic behaviors; it refers to the fact that volunteers do not receive any compensation; it refers to activities that help others or have positive benefits to the environment they are in, and help others directly in various fields.
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between the motivation factors, arrangement, growth transition, and religious beliefs of volunteers participating in the temple voluntary service at Pingzhen Baozhong Temple. The volunteers serving Pingzhen Baozhong Temple were enrolled as the research objects. In terms of the research methods, semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted to explore the influence of volunteers′ behavioral intentions from the perspective of their personality traits.
1. In addition to considering volunteers′ personal interests and residence, the most important thing is the motivations to participate in volunteer services, which is composed of a number of complex factors that can provoke internal and external effects on the causes of behaviors. Motivations are not only the causes of behaviors but also affect the duration of the behaviors.
2. Arrangement determines the estimated working hours, service duration, flexibility of scheduling, and volunteer service location of the schedule.
3. Volunteers can achieve self-growth transition through providing services, and they expect to serve others and help others. The benefits they gain from providing services are learning knowledge, expanding horizons, killing time, pursuing personal self-growth, making friends, expanding interpersonal relationships, getting happiness and a sense of accomplishment, improving personal abilities to affirm self-worth, improving eloquence and communication skills, improving social status, being guided by ideology, improving work efficiency, and even positively changing their outlooks on life.
4. Based on personal firm religious belief, the involvement of volunteers in temple services has an impact on their lives (retirement) and on the group. Because of their devotion to their faith and the Hakka ethnic identity, the volunteers showed a strong sense of identity and cohesiveness to the temple group they joined.
Through voluntary services, and sacrificial activities, such as the spring and autumn dharma assemblies, the internal cohesion of temple volunteers and their respect and enthusiasm for the belief in the temple from the depths of their hearts are converted into a sense of mission entrusted by the gods. The volunteers serving Yimin temples find their goal and fulfillment in life through their practice of voluntary service. The routine work of temples, the annual preparation of the sacrificial offerings by volunteers on duty, and the routine worship of believers will eternally reproduce the belief of the Yimin Lord, which will also present more cultural characteristics. | en_US |