According to statistics gathered by Hayashi, some 33 young men from the Chingliu district joined the Volunteer Corps. As children, they would have seen their elders killed under the Japanese bombardment. "Could it be that their terror of the Japanese, and a feeling that they were doomed anyway, made them willingly ingratiate themselves with the Japanese police and become loyal servants of Japan?"
據林榮代的統計，清流地區約有三十三位青年參加義勇隊，他們曾在幼時目睹兄長被日本人以飛機大砲鎮壓的境遇，「是否基於對日本人的恐懼及『在劫難逃』」的心情，乾脆逢迎及討好日警，對日本更為盡忠」，戴國輝認為，這種心理的變化也是許多遭高壓反彈者的共同經驗。