• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.295-306
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• 2015

This study aims to investigate the aspect of volunteering and donation of highschool students in Seongnam city and further the relationship between volunteering and democratic civic consciousness. To that end, 155 students from an ordinary highschool and a foreign language highschool participated in a survey. The result showed that female students' participation rates of volunteering and monetary donations were higher than male students' but there was no difference in the participation rates between the schools. The civic consciousness level was not affected by the gender, but was affected by the schools. The scores for the attitude of democracy were better than those for the value and the participation of democracy. In particular, the students from the foreign language highschool had higher scores for the participation of democracy relative to the students from the highschool. As for the relationship between volunteering and democratic civic consciousness, there was a significant difference in civic consciousness scores between students who had participated in volunteering and those who had not, only in the case of the students from the ordinary highschool. Additionally, it was revealed volunteering and donating were compensatory behavior. Although single factors in volunteering influencing the civic consciousness were not found, persistence was important.

• Survey Research
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.51-83
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• 2008

While online surveys are considered to be the viable alternative to face-to-face and telephone surveys, many clients express a strong concern about the possibility of unreliable responses. Given this concern, survey experts hypothesize that amounts of time on responding can represent the extent to which respondents fill out the questions with sincerity. This study examines this hypothesis using data from an online survey sample of 1.052. Results strongly suggest that while "long time" informants are reliable, "short time" informants are not. Those in the short time group spend only 2.4 seconds per question and show very different patterns of responses to 49 Likert -typed questions. Logistic regression results imply that these unreliable respondents are interested in monetary gifts and maybe as a result, participate in surveys much more frequently. In conclusion, we provide some implications of these results to the quality of online surveys.