Recognizing the importance of values and the specific characteristics of participants and situations in voluntary organizations, we examine how value congruence—the fit or compatibility of values between participants and the organization, or among participants—interacts with personal and situational factors to predict participants' length of stay in their organizations. Introducing the case of a voluntary organization that offers shared housing, we measure value congruence through textual similarity in the self‐introduction documents of 49 participants and the organization's mission statement. This approach differs from the self‐reported measures based on participants' perceptions or recalled interactions used in previous studies. In line with expectation‐disconfirmation theory, participants with the strongest beliefs in organizational values had shorter lengths of stay. The amount of intraorganizational communication also moderated the relationship between value congruence and length of stay. This study provides theoretical and methodological implications for nonprofit management by considering personal and situational factors and evaluating value congruence by textual similarity.

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为什么志愿组织的参与者离开？探索价值一致性与停留时间之间的关系

认识到自愿组织中价值的重要性以及参与者和情况的特定特征，我们研究了价值一致性（参与者与组织之间或参与者之间价值的适合性或兼容性）如何与个人和情境因素相互作用以预测参与者的身长留在他们的组织中。在介绍一个提供共享住房的志愿组织的情况下，我们通过49位参与者的自我介绍文件中的文本相似性和该组织的使命声明来衡量价值一致性。这种方法不同于基于参与者的感知或先前研究中使用的回忆互动的自我报告的测量方法。根据期望与否定理论，对组织价值观最有信心的参与者的住院时间较短。组织内沟通的数量也缓和了价值一致性和停留时间之间的关系。这项研究通过考虑个人和情况因素并通过文本相似性评估价值一致性，为非营利组织管理提供了理论和方法论意义。