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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the differences in psychological happiness according to the general characteristics of volunteers. The study subjects were volunteers living in O city. The SPSS Program was utilized as the analysis method to carry out a frequency analysis, reliability analysis, and correlation analysis. Study results showed that firstly, cause, a subfactor of participation motive, was the biggest factor while leisure and self-development followed. Moreover, it was observed that psychological happiness was higher than the average level. Secondly, it was shown that the subfactors of participation motive perceived by volunteers such as cause, external factor, leisure, and psychological happiness had a high positive correlation. Moreover, it was also shown that the subfactors of participation motive such as cause, external factor, leisure, and psychological happiness had a high positive correlation. Thirdly, when observing differences in psychological happiness according to the volunteering experience of volunteers, it was shown that there was an average difference according to the statistical significance level. The implications of this study are that it will be used as baseline data for improving conditions for increasing the psychological happiness of volunteers.