International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, Volume 4, Issue 7, July-2013 91 ISSN 2229-5518 IJSER (c) 2013 http://www.ijser.org Modelling The Multigroup Moderator-Mediator On Motivation Among Youth In Higher Education Institution Towards Volunteerism Program Wan Mohamad Asyraf Bin Wan Afthanorhan & Sabri Ahmad Abstract.This study aimed to evaluate the factors used for develop a best model of multigroup moderator-mediator effect on motivation among youth in higher education institution towards volunteerism program. The data be collected through questionnaires distributed at four higher education institution. This questionnaire is constructed based on five dimension which is motivation, benefits, goverment support, barrier and challenges. The data were distributed by using stratified sampling technique and involving 453 respodents . In this case, the data were analyzed through Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) by using Analysis Moment of Structural (AMOS) 18.0 to examine the influence of exogenous and endogenous variables. As a result showed that the goverment support is significant and direct influences on motivation, benefits, challenges and barrier. Moreover, the benefits and barrier is significant and direct influence on motivation while the challenges is insignificant influence on motivation. In generals, the findings revealed that benefits influence is most crucial for motivation of volunteerism. Next, moderation procedure is apply to examine the strength of influence of relationship between these variables. The findings suggest all path are insignificant unless goverment support on benefits. Keywords: stratified sampling technique, Volunteerism, Structural Equation Modelling, Mediating and moderating effect 1.0 INTRODUCTION Existing studies emphasize the level of involvement in volunteerism program especially among youth nowadays. One of these factor can be examined by the reason of volonteerism which is can be consider as the motivation (Rhyne, 1995). Four affective variables are of interest in this study which is barrier, benefits, goverment support and challenges. Volunteerism is defined as a professional or non- professional person who provides a services to a welfare or development organization, usually without reimbursement ( The White Paper for Social Welfare, 1998). Barrier is referred as not about supported volunteering specifically (Eva Schindler-Raiman, 1987). According to Dingle, 2001, the benefits is extremely important if had supported by the contribution of goverment. Thus, this barrier hinder the growth of volunteery activities. Besides, the challenges also influence towards the volunteerism program especially when comes from the forces of globalization ( Rothenberg, 2003). According to Carol Hardy-Fanter,1993 found that males and females took on different roles when volunteering. In this study, the benefits, barrier, and challenge play role as mediator variable since these variables can become exogenous and endogenous variable simultaneously. Therefore, the prior studies is to examine the relationship between goverment support, benefits, challenges and barrier on motivation as well as their different relationships. Besides, the gender is also include to determine the strength of relationship for the whole variables. In generals, this study employ the moderating and mediating effect in order to achieve the objective research. 2.0 METHODOLOGY 2.1 Target Population The target population for this study is among youth from the selected university which is majority of respodent age’s must be between 15 to 40 years old. Since the university campuses are widely scattered in term of geographical location, the study applied the staratified sampling technique whereby in Terengganu only. Then, four higher education institution are selected randomly among the university available in Kuala Terengganu which is Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) ,Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Chendering, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UNISZA), and Institut Pengajian Guru Batu Rakit (IPGBR) . Thus, all students in the selected university are taken as respondents in the study. In other words, the number of students from both university that encompassed by variety faculty are as a population of the study. The data were collected are 453 respondents by using questionnaire distributed.