Adolescents’ perceptions of mother–father dominance in family vacation decisions: a 25-society study

Abstract

This study applies and builds on Davis and Rigaux's (J Consum Res 1(1): [51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62] 1974) triangle of spousal dominance styles of family purchase decisions. We explored adolescents' perceptions of parents' dominance in family decisions by investigating mother-father relative influence (MFRI) and responsibility sharing with family for 15 issues relating to vacations. The results, derived from data collected in 25 societies, demonstrate a tendency toward an autonomic style of parents' decision-making for all sub-decisions and all societies except Turkey. Overall, both decision phases and cultural regions correlated with democratization of family vacation decisions. The relationship between sex-role specialization and societal cluster differed across sub-decision clusters. Further, societal effectiveness in general, individualism and long-term orientation were positively correlated with MFRI.

Family Identity Bundles and Holiday Decision Making

“…2017). More recently, several researchers began focusing on the influence of family communication styles in family relations and socialization (Ndubisi 2007; Watne, Brennan, and Winchester 2014) or on psychographic factors such as family members’ values, lifestyles (Barlés Arizón, Fraj Andrés, and Martínez Salinas 2011; Barlés-Arizón, Fraj-Andrés, and Martínez-Salinas 2013; Cheng et al. 2019), and motivations (Sato et al.…”

“…Recently, an increasing number of studies have revealed that couples engage in holiday decision making jointly through various subdecisions (Rojas-de-Gracia and Alarc on-Urbistondo 2018), during the problem recognition and final decision stages (Rojas-de-Gracia and Alarc on-Urbistondo 2018), or throughout all three stages (Ashraf and Khan 2016;Kancheva and Marinov 2014). Cheng et al (2019) and Coskun et al (2019) identified similar shared influences between parents in the family vacation decision-making process. Kim, Tanford, and Choi (2019) stressed the differences between couples' and families' decision-making processes by investigating how the same add-on information could differentially influence their decisions.…”

Fathers' Predominance in Transport Arrangements for Family Tourism: E-Chaid-Based Profiling in East Asia

“…Transportation is considered to be an indispensable aspect of family tourism because participants' perceived risk of transport arrangements strongly affects their regard for travel information [1]. An important topic in family tourism research is the family's decisionmaking style for decisions about means of transport [2], but the extant research on the father's role in decision-making about the means of transportation for family vacations has produced contradictory results. For instance, Wang et al [3] study in Taiwan found that the father and mother decided the means of transportation for family tours jointly, which agrees with the findings of a recent study in Spain [4] and Croatia [5].…”

“…Their findings represent a broader contention that the father predominates in the decisions of transportation arrangements for family vacations in East Asia. A recent study by Cheng et al [2] confirmed that fathers' predomination in determining the means of been introduced in an elaboration of family purchase decision-making under down-to-earth circumstances [21,30]. The multilevel crossvergence perspective was developed from the crossvergence theory [23,31] and forms the foundation for reference frameworks in crosssocietal-context research.…”

“…These various contradictory findings can be attributed to the choice of different respondents within the families accessed by the studies. Extant evidence on the roles that fathers play in the decision-making about the means of transportation for family vacations is rarely based on the data obtained from adolescent children [2], who, in fact, do possess the cognitive competence necessary to describe how the vacation decision roles are distributed within the family [11][12][13][14]. Perception bias can plague conclusions that are based on use of the traditional couple-reporting method to describe the distribution of roles in family vacation decision-making.…”