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38 Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Q. 5 (2009)

handle is hein.journals/npvolsq38 and id is 1 raw text is: Sector Quartdly Noilte8 Nu bent 1 Iebniiy1 2009 5-28 ~~ of© 009) Sage Pblitolls The Mvatching ofM tv to s10. 1-/,))_1()' 4)1 http:/ns~aeu~o to Affordances in the Volunteer Ihos~td at Environment An Index for Assessing the Impact of Multiple Matches on Volunteer Outcomes Arthur A. Stukas La Trobe University Keilah A. Worth Dartmouth Medical School E. Gil Clary College of St. Catherine Mark Snyder University of Minnesota The functional approach to volunteerism holds that outcomes from volunteering (e.g., satisfaction and intentions to remain a volunteer) are a function of the match between a volunteer's motivations and affordances to meet those motivations found in the envi- ronment (i.e., the volunteer activities, position, or organization). In this article, the authors introduce an index for calculating a volunteer's total number of matches across six motivational categories identified by past research. They demonstrate that this index predicts outcomes better than motives or affordances alone and as well as any univari- ate match index (i.e., in a particular motivational category). Following logic about strong and weak situational contexts, the authors demonstrate that the magnitude of the total matches effect may be greater when organizational contexts are less structured and smaller when contexts are more structured. They discuss theoretical and practical ben- efits of this total match index. Keywords: volunteerism; motivation; satisfaction; organizational structure O f the choices available to people in their leisure time, one activity has captured the attention of policy makers, community activists, religious leaders, and social scientists: volunteerism. Volunteers provide assistance free of charge to those who need help-the lonely, the ailing, the grieving, and the destitute-and, in doing Author's Note: This research was made possible by a grant from the Nonprofit Sector Research Fund of the Aspen Institute. Portions of this research were presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. 5

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