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

本研究旨在了解义工网络与赋权对其参与垃圾管理计划意愿的影响。主要研究结果如下：我们进行了第一次调查研究，以调查已参与自愿回收活动的居民对名古屋市可回收与不可回收材料严格分类的新收集制度的公平与胜任程度。主要结果是，他们对新制度的有效性和公平性的评价都高于其他没有参与回收志愿活动的居民。第二次调查集中在参与回收活动的志愿者成员身上，明确了他们对公民参与废物管理计划的承诺的促进因素。研究结果表明，友谊网络和回收活动经历对志愿者赋权有显著影响。志愿者的赋权包括自我效能感、团结性和社会效能感三个因素。他们越是感觉到自己的赋权，他们就越愿意参与废物管理计划。我们的调查表明，环境志愿者群体的网络是志愿者赋权和对环境活动的承诺的主要决定因素。

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.