The impact of tourist and travel activities on facets of psychological well-being : research article

Steyn, Sonja; Saayman, Melville; Nienaber, A

doi:10.4314/sajrs.v26i1.25880

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“…While negative affect helps to strike an emotional balance that can ultimately lead to happiness (Liu, Wang, & Lü, 2013;Moriwaki, 1974;Ryff, 1989), our results suggested that tourists are reluctant to link their travel experiences to negative affect. While holidays can bring about negative emotions due to fatigue and burnout during travel (Gilbert & Abdullah, 2004;Steyn, Saayman, & Nienaber, 2004), tourists tend to focus on the hedonic or pleasurable side of travel. Of all structural relationships, those between the predictors of tourist happiness and negative affect were relatively weak, albeit statistically significant.…”

Section: The Dark Side Of Tourist Happinessmentioning

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Does a happy destination bring you happiness? Evidence from Swiss inbound tourism

Yong

2018

Tourism Management

104

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This study aims to explain tourist happiness by examining a specific destination in which happiness is generated for tourists via their travel behavior at the destination. Building upon the spillover theory of happiness, we developed a destination-based model of tourist happiness, which is shaped by destination image and service quality and mediated by tourist satisfaction and life satisfaction. This model was tested using data from 1,048 inbound tourists in Switzerland in 2015. We found that destination image is positively associated with life satisfaction, eudaimonia, and positive and negative affect; no evidence indicated the effect of service quality on life satisfaction and negative affect. In particular, life satisfaction can largely predict eudaimonia and positive and negative affect. We also discovered that negative affect is poorly explained by its antecedents in the tourism context, suggesting that tourists are reluctant to link their travel experiences to negative affect.

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Section: The Dark Side Of Tourist Happinessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does a happy destination bring you happiness? Evidence from Swiss inbound tourism

Yong

2018

Tourism Management

104

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“…Selfassessment of feelings regarding life domains and sub-domains, such as education, environment, economics, recreation opportunities, health access, social inclusion, and cultural identity became the basic dependent variables (Andereck & Nyaupane, 2011;Corvo, 2011;de Bloom, Geurts, & Kompier, 2012;Gilbert & Abdullah, 2004;Michalko, Ratz, & Bakucz, 2010;Nawijn & Mitas, 2012;Steyn, Saayman, & Nienaber, 2004;UysalPerdue, & Sirgy, 2012). However, most of these studies focused only on tourists.…”

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Tourism development and happiness: A residents’ perspective

Rivera

Croes

Lee

2016

Journal of Destination Marketing & Management

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“…Emotions refer to short-lived, intense, and conscious responses of human beings to environmental stimuli (Nawijn et al 2013), and have been increasingly investigated in tourist behavior studies (e.g., X. Huang 2015;Mitas et al 2012;Steyn, Saayman, and Nienaber 2004). Particularly, emotional changes of backpackers during and after their backpacking trips, such as adjustment of negative emotions and relief of anxiety and stress, have been examined (e.g., G. Chen, Bao, and Huang 2014a; G. Self-consciousness has been found to involve two basic aspects of a person's self: private self and public self (Simon 2004).…”

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Backpacker Personal Development, Generalized Self-Efficacy, and Self-Esteem: Testing a Structural Model

Bao

Huang

2018

Journal of Travel Research

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Guided by self-determination theory (SDT), this study aims to advance the theoretical understanding of backpacker personal development (BPD) by examining its relationships with two important social-psychological constructs, that is, generalized self-efficacy (GSE) and self-esteem (SE). Using two samples from different cultural groups (Chinese backpackers, n=230; Western backpackers, n=242) and applying the partial least squares structural equation modeling, the study found that among Chinese backpackers, skill development positively influenced GSE while worldview changes negatively influenced SE. For Western backpackers, capability development and emotional adjustment positively influenced their GSE. The positive effects of GSE on SE were confirmed in both samples. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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The impact of tourist and travel activities on facets of psychological well-being : research article

Cited by 23 publications

References 19 publications

Does a happy destination bring you happiness? Evidence from Swiss inbound tourism

Does a happy destination bring you happiness? Evidence from Swiss inbound tourism

Tourism development and happiness: A residents’ perspective

Backpacker Personal Development, Generalized Self-Efficacy, and Self-Esteem: Testing a Structural Model

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