As scholarship on episodic volunteering expands, researchers question if episodic volunteering is similar to, and/or different from, long-term, membership-based volunteering. This article examines the motivations of Ghanaians, South Africans, and Tanzanians to engage in event-based, episodic volunteering. Based on surveys collected from over 1000 participants in 2018, we use logistic regression models to distinguish differences in motivations between novice, occasional, and regular episodic volunteers. The results show that age and student status are influential in distinguishing novice volunteers from regular volunteers, but more importantly that novices are motivated for primarily social reasons, while regular volunteers are motivated by more altruistic reasons. Our study reinforces established knowledge that people are motivated to volunteer for many reasons that may overlap or occur simultaneously, and that these motivations differ by stage of life.

随着突发性志愿服务的奖学金的增加，研究人员质疑突发性志愿服务是否与基于成员资格的长期志愿服务相似和/或不同。本文研究了加纳人，南非人和坦桑尼亚人参与基于事件的，偶发性志愿服务的动机。基于2018年从1000多名参与者那里收集的调查，我们使用逻辑回归模型来区分新手，偶尔和定期发作的志愿者之间的动机差异。结果表明，年龄和学生身份对于将新手志愿者与常规志愿者区分开有影响，但更重要的是，新手的动机主要是出于社会原因，而常规志愿者的动机则是出于利他的原因。