These factors all have a strong relationship to the independent variable of desire

to serve on county boards. These factors also had significance values that were less than

or equal to .01 which indicates that the variables are making unique significant

contributions to predicting the dependent variable.

 Table 4-36 provides a correlation matrix for eighteen of the independent

variables, these variables were included in the matrix if the correlation value was greater

than .35 and were statistically significant (p<.05). This matrix provides further evidence

about the correlations of the independent variables, not only with the dependent variable

(serving on county boards), but with each other. Correlation and significance values

which show strong relationships and significance are highlighted in bold face type

 The factor "volunteering evaluative factor" had the strongest correlation in the

multiple regression analysis. This factor correlated strongest with the "volunteering

activity factor" (r=.65), which would indicated individuals want to participate in

activities they place a high evaluative value to. The correlation between these two factors

has the highest correlational value in the table (r=.65).

 Other correlations found in Table 4-36 include the correlation of family

involvement with: "years in Farm Bureau" (r=.28), "time devoted to Farm Bureau"

(r=.37), "events attended" (r=.22), "member of 4-H" (r=.34), "member of other youth

development organizations" (r=.22), "farm size" (r=.28), and "motivation internal self-

concept" (r=.20). The strongest correlation was with "member of FFA" (r=.46).