MOTIVATION AND PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR OF DISASTER VOLUNTEERS IN CARRYING OUT HUMANITARIAN ACTIONS

Zulfikar Muhammad

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The number of disaster events in Indonesia, especially in Malang Regency, motivates people to move to become disaster volunteers. The motivation of these volunteers needs to be considered to increase community awareness of the threat of disasters around them. The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of volunteer motivation on prosocial behavior in disaster management in Malang Regency. The respondents in this study were volunteers who were members of disaster management in Malang Regency in the range between May and December 2021, totaling 46 people. The sampling technique uses random sampling technique. Data collection used the Volunteer Motivation Questionnaire and Prosocial Tandencies Measure Questionnaire instruments. The data is presented with a table and by description then a rho spearman test is carried out. The results of this study showed that the correlation value between volunteer motivation and prosocial behavior was 0.581, which means that the level of strength between volunteer motivation and prosocial behavior is very strong. And the significance value or sig (2-tailed) of 0.000 which is less than 0.05 means that there is a significant relationship between volunteer motivation and volunteer prosocial behavior. There are several motiviations of a person, namely internal motivation and external motivation. With the motivation of some of these aspects, a volunteer will be encouraged to behave prosocially. Based on the results of this study, researchers suggest improving the activities of disaster management volunteers, such as providing training on disaster management, discussing experiences between volunteers and involving volunteers in social activities.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.36053/mesencephalon.v10i1.377

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