The Determinants of Volunteer Behavior

我们的研究通过调查澄清了志愿者行为的决定因素。结果显示，教育程度、社会资本和宗教信仰对日本志愿者行为的影响与美国和欧洲的调查结果相似。研究发现，大多数不信教的日本人会祈祷，对一切都心存感激，他们更频繁地做志愿者。如果他们的父母在他们的童年时期经常去寺庙、神社或教堂，他们会私下祈祷，并对一切心存感激。结论是，在家庭中以祈祷和感恩养育孩子是创造“互助互助社会”的有效手段。

Our study clarified the determinants of volunteer behavior through a survey. The result shows that education, social capital, and religiosity influence on the volunteer behavior in Japan,similar to the findings of the surveys in the U.S. and Europe. Most unreligious Japanese who pray and feelgratitude for everything, were found to do volunteer more frequently. And if their parents had frequently gone to a temple, shrine or church in their childhood, they come to pray in private and feel gratitudefor everything. The conclusion is that it is effective means for creating "society of compassion and helping each other" to bring up their children in their family with pray and gratitude.