Table 1.
Descriptive statistics and simple correlations between main variables and covariates
| Mean (SD)/percentage | Age | Enhancement motives | Career motives | Social motives | Value motives |
Understanding motives | Protective motives | Making friends | Physical well-being | Life satisfaction | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enhancement motives | 4.76 (1.15) | .456** | |||||||||||||
| Career motives | 3.52 (1.41) | −.399** | .132 | ||||||||||||
| Social motives | 3.96 (1.37) | .613** | .671** | .021 | |||||||||||
| Value motives | 5.49 (.88) | .320** | .621** | .024 | .502** | ||||||||||
| Understanding motives | 5.33 (.90) | .291** | .643** | .171* | .451** | .597** | |||||||||
| Protective motives | 4.33 (1.33) | .556** | .746** | .050 | .728** | .556** | .593** | ||||||||
| Making friends | 5.45 (1.22) | .281** | .521** | .185* | .472** | .565** | .613** | .502** | |||||||
| Physical well-being | 3.67 (.78) | .198** | .241** | −.058 | .144 | .266** | .232** | .251** | .048 | ||||||
| Life satisfaction | 4.83 (1.10) | .350** | .296** | −.186* | .270** | .202** | .212** | .332** | .139 | .471** | |||||
| Sex (% female) | 60.9 % | .257** | .058 | −.173* | .088 | .074 | −.002 | .153* | .008 | .071 | .227** | ||||
| Religion (% religious) | 41.4 % | .024 | −.024 | −.045 | .031 | .040 | .127 | .017 | −.064 | .050 | .125 | ||||
| Marital status (% married) | 50.3 % | .573** | .208* | −.265** | .229** | .120 | .020 | .248** | .007 | .227** | .419** | ||||
| SES | .13 (1.80) | −.757** | −.451** | .293** | −.596** | −.272** | −.258** | −.592** | −.297** | −.053 | −.103 | ||||
| Volunteering duration | – | .299** | .237** | −.080 | .173* | .188* | .292** | .172* | .107 | .189* | .191* | ||||
| Volunteering regularity | – | .343** | .246** | −.137 | .240** | .208** | .144 | .184* | .218** | .245** | .209** | ||||
* p < .05; ** p ≤ .01; *** p ≤ .001