Abstract:
The purpose of this Cross-Sectional Descriptive Research was to study the behavior and the predictive factors in working of volunteer rescuers in Chonburi. The participants were 315 volunteer rescuers to be selected by multi stage sampling method. The questionnaire was designed to collect data including personal factors, health belief factors, social instrumental support factors, and work behavior of volunteer rescuers. Descriptive Statistics were used to analyze data including frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficidnt, and Multiple Linear Regression. The results showed work behavior of volunteer rescuers occurred at high level and factors influencing work behavior of volunteer rescuers were as follow: social instrumental support, social emotional support, health belief, perceived severity and perceived benefits which these factors could predit work behavior at 26.8 percent by writing the following equation: Y = 79.430 + 1.009X11 + 0.429X10 + 0.582X8 + 0.989X7
When
X11 = Social instrumental support
X10 = Emotional support
X8 = Perceived benefits
X7 = Perceived servity
Moreover, the results indicated that social instrumental support, encouragement from family and colleagues, promotion of perceived benefits, and perceived severity would increase the work safety of volunteer rescuers.