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Volunteering activity (VA) are important key as a bridge between a person, group of people, organisation to community as a function of social activity. It is an activity that encourage this group to give more and as return they would get benefits includes their purpose of involving volunteering, socials, supportive, leisure and most important helps in their career. Researchers tend to look at the motivation factor contributing to VA among university students. The samples are from 327 students who voluntary participated in this study. There is significance difference in term of “purposive” (p = .047 < 0.05), “career” (p = .001 < 0.05), “leisure” (p = .003 < 0.05), “social” (p = .001 < 0.05) and “supportive” (p = .019 < 0.05). In addition, when it shown women student more participate in VA compared to male with mean are higher. Study found that tertiary students are motivate when VA has purposive, supportive, social, leisure and at the same time it would help them in build their career after study.
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To Cite this Article: Bakri, N. H. S., Tajri, A. A., Ahmad, M. F., Dahlan, N. D., & Lamat, S. A. (2021). Motivation of Volunteering Activities among University Students. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 11(11), 764–770.
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