Volunteering and young people, motivation, barriers

Autor	Bc. Jana Bělohlávková
Organisation	Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Fakulta humanitních studií, Katedra studií občanské společnosti
Year	2010
Research type	master thesis
Annotation	Volunteering is an important subject in today's society. The society as well as the volunteers themselves profit from volunteering. This thesis handles the topic of young people and volunteering. It deals with the opinion of young people about volunteering as well as with the motivations and barriers young people have in connection to volunteering. There has been a qualitative research conducted within this thesis. The method of focus group was used for it. Young people between 16 and 19 years were the target group of the research. Besides motivation and barriers it focused as well on the channels through which people get information about volunteering. There are recommendations concerning the promotion of volunteering between young people in the final part of the thesis. Those conclusions are aimed mainly for the European Year of Volunteering 2011.
Keywords	barriers, volunteering, youth, motivation, leisure
Research type	qualitative
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Obor	AK Sport, leisure time activities, AN Psychology
Email	petra.fejfarova@fhs.cuni.cz
Availability	available in the NRVDM electronic library
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Organisation	Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Fakulta humanitních studií, Katedra studií občanské společnosti
Possible connection	Children and Youth Ratio in population Number of children and young people Expected numbers of children and young people Number of addressed clients by the Youth Information Centres network Number of accepted participants in regular activity by Leisure-time Centres