Volunteering involves caring for the outcomes of others and typically long-term orientation so that one can achieve goals that are not always clearly visible in the short term. As with any activity, volunteering attracts people of different social value orientations—some rather individualistic, some rather altruistic. The aim of the study was to find out whether the future time perspective, which promotes thinking about future goals and planning, is linked to volunteers' declarations of the probability of them continuing volunteering in a month, year, and three years and whether this link is moderated by social value orientation. An online questionnaire-based study was performed on a sample of 245 volunteers. The results indicated that the higher the social value orientation, the greater the predicted probability of continuing volunteering. Future time perspective was related to the predicted probability of continuing volunteering in all investigated time horizons only when volunteers had a more individualistic than altruistic social value orientation. Younger age and longer experience with volunteering were also linked to the predicted probability of continuing volunteering in a year and three years (but not in one month). The results show the importance of social value orientation and future time perspective for more individualistic volunteers in their willingness to volunteer further. The study has practical implications for organizations' management, who should consider developing cooperation skills in their volunteers. For competitive volunteers, they may also highlight how challenges could make an impact in the future so that they intend to remain active.

志愿服务涉及关心他人的成果，并且通常具有长期导向，以便人们能够实现短期内并不总是清晰可见的目标。与任何活动一样，志愿服务吸引了不同社会价值取向的人们——有些人相当个人主义，有些人相当利他主义。该研究的目的是查明未来时间视角（促进对未来目标和规划的思考）是否与志愿者声明的一个月、一年和三年内继续志愿服务的可能性有关，以及这种联系是否存在。是受社会价值取向调节的。对 245 名志愿者进行了一项基于在线问卷调查的研究。结果表明，社会价值取向越高，继续志愿服务的预测概率就越大。仅当志愿者具有比利他主义更个人主义的社会价值取向时，未来时间视角才与在所有调查时间范围内继续志愿服务的预测概率相关。年龄较小和志愿服务经验较长也与一年和三年内（但不是一个月内）继续志愿服务的预测概率有关。结果表明，社会价值取向和未来时间视角对于更多个人主义志愿者进一步志愿服务的意愿至关重要。这项研究对组织的管理具有实际意义，组织管理应考虑培养志愿者的合作技能。对于有竞争力的志愿者，他们还可能会强调挑战如何对未来产生影响，以便他们打算保持活跃。