An environmental psychological research of networking and empowerment of the environmental volunteers.

本研究的目的是要厘清义工的网络与赋权对其参与废物管理计划意愿的影响。主要结果如下：我们进行了第一次调查研究，以调查已经参与自愿回收活动的居民对名古屋市严格区分可回收和不可回收材料的新收集系统的公平和能力。主要结果是，他们比其他没有参加自愿回收活动的居民更积极地评价新系统的有效性和公平性。第二项调查的重点是参与回收活动的志愿者成员，并明确了他们承诺公民参与废物管理计划的促进因素。结果表明，友情网络和回收活动经验对志愿者的授权有显著影响。志愿者的授权包括三个因素：自我效能、团结和社会有效性。她们越觉得自己被赋予了权力，就越愿意参与废物管理项目。我们的调查表明，环境志愿者团体的网络是志愿者赋权和参与环境活动的主要决定因素。

The purpose of this study was to clarify the effects of volunteers' networking and empowerment on their participatory intentions of the waste management program.Main results were as follows.We conducted the first survey research for investigating how fair and competent the residents, who had already participated in voluntary recycling activities,evaluated a new collection system of strict separation between recyclable and non-recyclable materials in Nagoya city. Main results were that they evaluated both of the effectiveness and fairness of the new system more positively than the other residents who had not participated in voluntary recycling activities.The second survey focused on volunteer members who had participated in the recycling activities and clarified promoting factors of their commitment to the citizen participation in the waste management program. The results indicate that the friendship network and prior experiences of recycling activities had a significant effect on the volunteer's empowerment. The volunteer's empowerment consists three factors of self-efficacy, solidarity, and social effectiveness. The more they perceived their empowerment, the more they were willing to participate in the waste management program.Our surveys clarified that networking by environmental volunteer group are main determinants of both of volunteer's empowerment and commitment to the environmental activities.