Organizational commitment in Spanish and Italian volunteers: A comparative study

  1. Dávila, María Celeste 1
  2. Díaz-Morales, Juan Francisco 1
  3. Pasquini, Marianna
  4. Giannini, Marco
  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR 02p0gd045

Revue:
Europe’s Journal of Psychology

ISSN: 1841-0413

Année de publication: 2010

Volumen: 6

Número: 2

Pages: 32-46

Type: Article

DOI: 10.5964/EJOP.V6I2.183 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAccès ouvert editor

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Résumé

Recently, it has been demonstrated that attitudes toward an organization impact uponsustained volunteerism. We compared Spanish and Italian volunteers using theOrganizational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ) and then investigated howorganizational commitment related to the intention to remain in the organization.Confirmatory and multiple-groups confirmatory factor analysis were used to assess factorstructure and structural invariance across the two countries. The results showed that atwo-factor model of organizational commitment best characterized the OCQ structurefor both samples. Factorial invariance across countries was demonstrated for bothfactors (Involvement and Acceptance). When we examined the relations betweeneach invariant factor and the intention to remain, Acceptance was the factor thataccounted for more variation in the intention to remain.