The Influence of Participation Motive for Cooking Volunteer Work upon Immersion Effect and Major Satisfaction in Culinary Major Students : Focusing on Culinary Major Students in Jeonnam and Jeonbuk Area

This study examines how participation motive in cooking volunteer work influences flow effect and major satisfaction among culinary major students.The questionnaire survey targeted 219 culinary major students with experience participating in cooking volunteer work.Frequency analysis, reliability & factor analysis, correlation, and regression analysis were conducted using SPSS 25.0.In this study, the hypothesis that a participation motive for cooking volunteer work has a significant positive (+) impact on cognitive immersion and behavioral immersion was partially supported.The hypothesis that a participation motive for cooking volunteer work has a meaningful positive (+) effect on major satisfaction was partially supported.The hypothesis that the flow effect has a significant positive (+) impact on major satisfaction was supported.These analysis results suggest that culinary majors university students in the Jeonnam and Jeonbuk regions engage in participation motive for cooking volunteer activities with pride and a sense of dignity, recognizing that their work is differentiated from volunteer activities in other majors by being an experiential learning experience based on their culinary major that combines technical activities of making food with social activities of caring for others through food.Furthermore, they demonstrate a clear awareness of volunteering, attachment, and determination, and are fully committed to the assigned volunteer activities.