Research On Volunteers' Emotional Mechanism From The Perspective Of Interactive Ritual Chain ——Take The X District Of W City As An Example

The public welfare and gratuitous nature of volunteerism make its macro-level volunteer spirit and micro-level volunteer experience both full of emotional elements.Emotion is an important starting point of volunteerism,and volunteers are more "emotional" people or groups of people,and their interaction with various subjects in different situations will affect volunteers' enthusiasm for service,which in turn affects volunteers' continuous participation.Based on this,this paper attempts to examine the changes of volunteers' emotional energy and their influencing factors before,during and after the participation in volunteer service,so as to build a model of the emotional mechanism of volunteer service and help the effective,sustainable and healthy development of volunteer service.This paper adopts a qualitative research design,observes volunteers' participation in the volunteering field,and uses purposive sampling to select 22 volunteers,organizers or service recipients for in-depth interviews,and analyzes and organizes the collected data by means of three-level coding.This affects the initial emotional energy of participating in volunteer service.The resources possessed by individual volunteers,as well as political,economic and socio-cultural environmental factors provide resources and institutional guarantee for the normalization of volunteerism.In the experience stage of volunteer service,the positive motivation and self-feedback that volunteers receive from the individual,group and organization levels positively influence the maintenance and strengthening of their emotional energy.The individual's immediate experience in the interaction is the direct factor that affects the volunteers' emotional energy.The motivation and emotional support given by the volunteer group and the organization play an important compensating role in the volunteers' perception of value,which in turn affects the maintenance of the individual's emotional energy.At the end of volunteer service,volunteers slowly return to rationality because they are detached from the situation of mutual concern and emotional connection.The unanticipated gains they feel during the volunteer service,their deep understanding and internalization of volunteer spirit,and their self-adjustment in the face of difficulties are all important manifestations of volunteers' emotional energy accumulation.Emotional energy can be the core element and result of the interaction ritual,and the formation of the "chain interaction" of volunteer service is the result of the interaction between various elements.In the different stages of volunteer service,volunteers experience the alternation and change between different situations,and the emotional energy as the cause eventually forms a new more positive and active emotional energy characterized by group symbols,group moral sense and volunteer spirit through the interaction rituals of different situations,and this new power as the result will continue to act as the driving force for the volunteer subject.With the change of the emotional energy of the subjects in this process,the relationship between the subjects will change from weak to strong,which will lead to the transformation of volunteer service from weak connection ritual to strong connection ritual,and then realize the continuous participation of volunteers.This paper explores the emotional mechanism of volunteers in the whole volunteer service process with the help of the theoretical model of interactive ritual chain and the concept of emotional energy,so as to play the role of emotion in promoting individual behavior choice and helping the sustainable development of volunteer service.