Quarantine hotel employees’ protection motivation, pandemic fear, resilience and behavioural intention

Career resilience of the tourism and hospitality workforce in the COVID-19: The protection motivation theory perspective

“…This study adds to our understanding of the view that workers perceptions of a pandemic, such as, Covid-19 is a career shock and they need career competencies and resilience to manage it ( Akkermans et al, 2020 ), rather than the belief that career resilience can organically emerge from such a career shock. Nonetheless, our findings partly resonate with those of some prior inquiries into the positive direct effects of perceived severity and vulnerability on behavioral control ( Ong et al, 2021 ), the positive direct effects of individuals' perceived severity and vulnerability to COVID-19 on their protective behaviors ( González-Castro, Ubillos-Landa, Puente-Martínez, & Gracia-Leiva, 2021 ), and the indirect links of perceived threat vulnerability and perceived threat severity with coping mechanisms for resilience among hotel employees ( Ghaderi, Hall, & Beal, 2022 ) or travelers in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic ( Zheng et al, 2021 ). Moreover, confirming the positive effects of perceived vulnerability and severity on tourism workers' career resilience, the current study also addresses a knowledge gap in terms of mixed results from prior findings on the positive link of perceived vulnerability with protective behaviors ( González-Castro et al, 2021 ) and the negative link of vulnerability with resilience ( Judkins et al, 2021 ).…”

“…With its results regarding the positive links of perceived vulnerability or perceived severity on response efficacy or self-efficacy, our study further confirms the findings of previous studies regarding the positive relationship between threat and coping self-efficacy in the general organizational psychology area ( Vagni, Maiorano, Giostra, & Pajardi, 2020 ). In addition, based on our findings concerning the positive associations of self-efficacy and response efficacy with health risk preventative behavior as well as career resilience, the current study expands the body of empirical studies on the positive links of self-efficacy and response efficacy with preparedness for terrorism ( Wirtz & Rohrbeck, 2017 ), cancer preventive behaviors ( Zare Sakhvidi et al, 2015 ), emergency nurses' proactive protection motivation ( Leigh et al, 2020 ), travelers' protection motivation ( Zheng et al, 2021 ), and hotel employees' protection motivation ( Ghaderi et al, 2022 ).…”

“…This study departs from the extant literature by offering evidence for the mediating role of health risk preventative behavior for the positive effects of perceived threat vulnerability, perceived threat severity, response efficacy, and self-efficacy on career resilience. This fills a gap in prior studies, which have largely focused on coping mechanisms as mediators for the indirect links of perceived threat vulnerability or perceived threat severity with resilience ( Ghaderi et al, 2022 ; Zheng et al, 2021 ). Furthermore, while the current study delves into the mediation pathway of health risk preventative behavior for response efficacy or self-efficacy and resilience, some prior studies have concentrated on protection motivation as a mediation mechanism for the indirect effect of response efficacy or self-efficacy on cautious contact ( Ghaderi et al, 2022 ) or cautious travel ( Zheng et al, 2021 ).…”

Research on Factors Influencing Hotel Consumers’ Health: A Systematic Review and Ways Forward

“…Especially during the peak of the epidemic, tourism activities decreased because of local policy restrictions [13]. This phenomenon has attracted the attention of scholars in the field of hotel management [14,15].…”

COVID-19 risk perception and tourist satisfaction: A mixed-method study of the roles of destination image and self-protection behavior

“…Meanwhile, some scholars ( Horng et al, 2014 ; Wang et al, 2019 ; Ruan et al, 2020 ) applied PMT to the discipline of tourism. Additionally, some researchers used the PMT framework to explain the protective motivation and behavior of individuals in the context of COVID-19, for example, vaccination intention ( Wang et al, 2022 ), dining behavior ( Wen and Liu-Lastres, 2022 ), international travel protection motivation ( Qiao et al, 2022 ), and hotel employee protection motivation ( Ghaderi et al, 2022 ). Therefore, based on a review of previous literature, this study argues that PMT is a good and evolving framework and that the relationship between the constructs (e.g., threat appraisal, coping appraisal, and behavioral intentions) has been tested by several scholars in different contexts.…”