TY - GEN
T1 - Motivations of Volunteer DREAM mentors
AU - Bautista-Chavez, Angie Martiza
AU - Garza, Allison Nicole
AU - Herkes, Stephanie M.
AU - Kienast, Kurt Jonathan
AU - McClendon, Nicholas W.
AU - Sharpe, Aaron Layne
AU - Houchens, Brent C.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Two existing inventories are modified to measure motivations of DREAM mentors who volunteer as design project leaders for underrepresented, underserved high school mentees. The DREAM mentors are predominately undergraduate engineering students. Clary and Snyder's Volunteer Functions Inventory (VFI), and Esmond and Dunlop's Volunteer Motivation Inventory (VMI) are both used to determine the motivations of the mentors for volunteering. Results show that mentors are primarily motivated by the Values function, a measure of desire to help others for humanitarian reasons, independent of race, gender and experience. Returning mentors also place high value on the Understanding function, whereas new mentors are less motivated by this measure. All place some reasonably high level of importance on Reciprocity, Reactivity, and/or Recognition as measured by the VMI, suggesting the dominant motivations are purely altruistic while secondary motivations are for personal fulfillment or gain.
AB - Two existing inventories are modified to measure motivations of DREAM mentors who volunteer as design project leaders for underrepresented, underserved high school mentees. The DREAM mentors are predominately undergraduate engineering students. Clary and Snyder's Volunteer Functions Inventory (VFI), and Esmond and Dunlop's Volunteer Motivation Inventory (VMI) are both used to determine the motivations of the mentors for volunteering. Results show that mentors are primarily motivated by the Values function, a measure of desire to help others for humanitarian reasons, independent of race, gender and experience. Returning mentors also place high value on the Understanding function, whereas new mentors are less motivated by this measure. All place some reasonably high level of importance on Reciprocity, Reactivity, and/or Recognition as measured by the VMI, suggesting the dominant motivations are purely altruistic while secondary motivations are for personal fulfillment or gain.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85029067641
SN - 9780878232413
T3 - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
BT - 119th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition
PB - American Society for Engineering Education
T2 - 119th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition
Y2 - 10 June 2012 through 13 June 2012
ER -