Ego Involvement and Leisure Behavior: A Conceptual Specification

Selin, Steven; Howard, Dennis R.

doi:10.1080/00222216.1988.11969777

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“…This means that involvement is an antecedent to consumer's response. Involvement has been proven to be involved with the decision-making of the individual (Selin & Howard, 1988;Suh, Lee, Park, & Shin, 1997;Vaughn, 1980). It is an important 46 mediator of consumer behaviour that has two components: intensity and direction.…”

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“…Ego-involvement is initiated by a stimulus that the individual perceives to be important, is questioned by, in conflict with, or relevant to the individual's 45 awareness. This stimulus must be at the centre of the value system and perceived as important by this individual (Selin & Howard, 1988).…”

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“…The philosophy shared by Slow Food members is reflected in their involvement with Slow Food, since involvement measures an individual's engagement with or attachment to a personal interest (Selin & Howard, 1988;Zaichkowsky, 1985). Slow Food members manifest their behaviour characteristics through their lifestyle.…”

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“…Further, the extent to which each individual is connected to a chosen lifestyle can be explained by the concept of involvement (Gross & Brown,4 2006). Involvement has been proven to be related with the decision-making of an individual (Selin & Howard, 1988;Vaughn, 1980), and can partially explain individual attachment to or engagement with a particular interest (Selin & Howard, 1988).…”

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“…The extent to which each individual is connected to a chosen lifestyle can be assessed by the concept of involvement (Gross & Brown, 2006), and this involvement can assist in explaining an individual's attachment to or engagement with a particular interest (Selin & Howard, 1988). Involvement is therefore related to the decision-making of an individual that affects the early stage of the process (Vaughn, 1980).…”

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The importance of food in vacation decision-making: Involvement, lifestyles and destination activity preferences of international Slow Food members

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Food is an important topic in the field of tourism, and has also been studied in many other disciplines. While most tourism literature considers food as an important motivating factor to travel, researchers such as McKercher, Okumus, and Okumus (2008) have suggested that the methods used to study food tourists do not examine the reasons for travel; instead they provide only tenuous causal relationships between actions (visiting a food destination) and motives (wanting to eat food).Thus, a more holistic approach to studying food tourists is required to better define the relationship between tourists' motivation to travel to a destination and their participation in food-related experiences. Therefore, this study examines the vacation decision-making of a group of Slow Food members with a high interest in food in terms of how they select their vacation destinations and their activities in those destinations.Vacation decision-making is a complex process with different stages. Of the different decisionmaking models available to study this process, the FLAG (fits-like-a-glove) theory was adopted as the framework in this study. This model has a naturalistic approach that considers decision-making as a process, and that each individual's decision is influenced by their past experiences (Woodside, 2006). While many underlying variables influence decision-making, two that require further investigation are involvement and lifestyle.This study aimed to understand how food is important in the vacation decision-making of Slow Food members; thus, it examined Slow Food members' destination activity preferences based on their involvement and lifestyle. The Slow Food movement is a non-profit foundation with over 20 years of history and over 100,000 members in 150 countries around the world. The philosophy of Slow Food is based on acquiring 'good, clean and fair' food. "Good food is defined as being tasty and diverse, and produced in such a way as to maximise its flavour and connections to a geographic and cultural region. Clean food is sustainable, helping to preserve rather than destroy the environment, while fair food is produced in socially sustainable ways that emphasise social justice and fair wages" (Schneider, 2008, p. 390).In order to achieve its aim and objectives, the study adopted a mixed methods exploratory research approach. In Phase 1, 40 interviews were conducted with international Slow Food members from four continents to identify their vacation decision-making, food-related lifestyle, travel lifestyle and destination activity preferences. Data analysed in Phase 1 was used in the development of a destination activity preferences scale included in Phase 2. In Phase 2, an online survey of Slow Food members and an on-site survey of non-Slow Food participants were carried out. These surveys iii collected 337 valid responses from international Slow Food members and 207 valid responses from non-Slow Food participants.Thematic analysis was employed to analyse the qualitative data collected in Phase 1 assisted by ...

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Perceived health benefits of nature‐based tourism: The influences of tourists' involvement, restorative environment and health consciousness

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Wang

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Journal of Tourism Research

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This study examines the influences of tourists' involvement, perceived restorative environments and health consciousness on their perceived physical, mental and social health benefits. The proposed model was empirically tested using a sample of 595 tourists who travelled to mountain sites after the strict lockdown in China. Tourists' perception of a restorative environment mediates the relationship between their involvement and perceived health benefits. Individual health consciousness positively moderates the effect of the restorative environment on perceived health benefits. This research connects tourist involvement, attention restoration theory and the health and wellness outcomes of nature‐based tourism.

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