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Correlates of Affective and Behavioral Involvement of Farmers' Organization Members in Two Rural Communities
Dissertation Abstract:
The study explored some of the factors influencing the affective and behavioral involvement of farmers' organization members. It also attempted to assess some of the factors which explain the variability of affective and behavioral involvement in farmers' organization.
A total of 193 members of two farmers' organizations in Camarines Sur, Philippines were interviewed. A semi-structured interview schedule was used for data gathering.
The farmers' social background characteristics, beliefs about collective action, their perception on the factors emanating from within the organization, and their effective and behavioral involvement in the organization were described.
The relationship of the independent variables with affective and behavioral involvement was analyzed. Twelve of the 22 independent variables significantly influenced affective involvement, as follows: expected income benefits, personal influence, subordination in manifesting compliance, distributive justice, subordination in expressing respect, personal importance, prestige, number of non-income benefits, member of importance, understanding about the organization, acceptance of the organizational goals, and belief on the necessity of system change. On the other hand, nine variables significantly influenced behavioral involvement, as follows: prestige, personal influence, subordination in manifesting compliance, personal importance, number of non-income benefits, role of expectations, education, and gross farm income.
The factors which influenced affective involvement were also compared with those that influenced behavioral involvement.
The study revealed that affective involvement was very highly correlated with behavioral involvement.
Step-wise multiple regression analysis showed that nine variables explained 46.02 percent of the variability of affective involvement in farmers' organizations. These were personal influence, distributive justice, subordination in manifesting compliance, understanding about the organization, belief that farmers can get organize, number of non-income benefits, prestige, expected income benefits, and belief on the necessity of system change.
Nine variables also explained 34.01 percent of the variability of behavioral involvement in farmers' organizations. These were prestige, personal influence, belief that farmers can work together, experience income benefits, belief that farmers can work together, experience income benefits, belief that farm problems are beyond farmers' control, subordination in manifesting compliance, belief on the necessity of system change, education, and role expectations.
On the whole, the study showed that given a low-moderate high classification of involvement, the farmers had high affective involvement but only moderate behavioral involvement at the same time.