While nostalgia has been explored in various contexts, no research has so far investigated how individuals’ nostalgia can be generated by volunteer experiences in compulsory settings and how nostalgic feelings extend their future behavior. To fill this research gap, this study explored how nostalgia regarding compulsory volunteering is related to positive memories, age, and past experiences and how such nostalgia translates to volunteer intention. A total of 605 responses were collected from university students who had completed compulsory volunteering at sporting events and analyzed using structural equation modeling. Results showed that positive memories contributed to all five factors of volunteer nostalgia, while past experiences only predicted volunteer environment, volunteer socialization, and volunteer personal identity. Age was not a significant antecedent to any of the volunteer nostalgia factors. Nostalgia regarding volunteer experience and volunteer personal identity mediated the relationship between positive memories and volunteer intention. This study confirmed previous claims concerning the relationships among nostalgia, positive memories, age, and past experiences in the context of compulsory volunteering. Specifically, individuals can develop nostalgia for coerced experiences if they have fond memories of them. Also, past experiences are more essential to nostalgia than age but not as much as positive memories, and nostalgia can turn compulsory volunteers into continued volunteers.

尽管人们在不同的背景下对怀旧进行了探索，但迄今为止还没有研究调查个人的怀旧情绪是如何通过义务环境中的志愿者经历而产生的，以及怀旧情绪如何延伸他们未来的行为。为了填补这一研究空白，本研究探讨了强制志愿服务的怀旧情绪如何与积极记忆、年龄和过去的经历相关，以及这种怀旧情绪如何转化为志愿服务意愿。总共收集了 605 份在体育赛事中完成义务志愿服务的大学生的回复，并使用结构方程模型进行了分析。结果表明，积极的记忆对志愿者怀旧的所有五个因素都有贡献，而过去的经历只能预测志愿者的环境、志愿者的社会化和志愿者的个人身份。年龄并不是任何志愿者怀旧因素的重要先决条件。对志愿者经历和志愿者个人身份的怀旧介导了积极记忆和志愿者意图之间的关系。这项研究证实了之前关于强制志愿服务背景下的怀旧、积极记忆、年龄和过去经历之间关系的说法。具体来说，如果个人对强迫经历有美好的回忆，他们就会对这些经历产生怀旧之情。此外，过去的经历对怀旧的影响比年龄更重要，但不如积极的记忆那么重要，而怀旧可以将强制性志愿者变成持续志愿者。