PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING IN YOUTH WITH DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE AND MOTIVATION IN VOLUNTEERING ACTIVITY
DOI: 10.23951/2307-6127-2022-6-181-192
Psychological well-being is an indicator of the realization of the potential of personal development. Psychological well-being is associated with the activity of the subject and requires special attention to the content of the activity. Age-psychological specifity of adolescence and youth is defined by selfdetermination and self-realization processes and personal subject’s activity becomes an important factor. Volunteer activity as a voluntary activity to help those in need provides ample opportunities for self-realization of the individual. The purpose of this research is to study the characteristics of the psychological well-being of adolescents with different experience and motivation for volunteering. The study involved 329 adolescents aged 14-18, of which 57.4 % were boys and 42.6 % were girls. The main hypothesis of the study was the assumption that the participation and motivation of youth volunteering are associated with a higher level of psychological well-being. Three methods were used: E. Clary’s Volunteering Motivation Questionnaire, the Warwick-Edinburgh Psychological Well-Being Scale, and the S. Lovibond Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale. The results obtained allowed us to draw the following conclusions. Various components of psychological well-being are associated with the experience and motivation of volunteering. Gender differences were found in the nature of the relationship between the level of psychological well-being and participation and motivation for volunteering.
Keywords: psychological well-being, volunteering, youth
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