Using the Brief Sensation Seeking Scale (BSSS) to predict holiday preferences

Eachus, Peter

doi:10.1016/s0191-8869(03)00074-6

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“…This is consistent with the approach used by Hoyle et al, 30 Stephenson et al, 34 and Eachus. 35 Regression assumptions were assessed with residual analyses, and influence diagnostics were explored. Multicollinearity was checked with variance inflation factors (VIFs), and modeling adequacy supported (all VIFs < 2).…”

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Caffeinated Alcohol, Sensation Seeking, and Injury Risk

O’Brien

McCoy

Egan

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Journal of Caffeine Research

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“…The average of the eight items was used as an overall score for sensation seeking. 30,34,35 Higher BSSS-8 mean scores indicated a greater agreement with seeking sensation.…”

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Caffeinated Alcohol, Sensation Seeking, and Injury Risk

O’Brien

McCoy

Egan

et al. 2013

Journal of Caffeine Research

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“…In this model personal traits and interests contributed to shape people's food choice behaviour (Furst et al, 1996). However, although personality traits play an essential role in explaining behaviour, there have been few attempts to explore how personality traits influence either on both tourists' behaviour or tourists' traditional food choice behaviour (Eachus, 2004).…”

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“…Sensation seeking is a personality trait which seeks novelty and stimulation, however, the level of novelty and the degree of stimulation varies from person to person (Lepp & Gibson, 2007;Pizam, Reichel, & Uriely, 2002). According to previous research, this concept has been successfully applied to explain people's or tourist's behaviour and indicates that tourists' behaviour will perform differently because of this trait (Eachus, 2004;Lepp & Gibson, 2007;Pizam et al, 2002;Wymer & Self, 2010). Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that this concept may also provide an explanation of why some tourist would choose familiar food (for example;…”

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Food tourism: consumer behaviour in relation to traditional food

Hsu¹

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Traditionally, sun, sea, and sand are the major reasons why tourists travel, however, in postmodern tourism, tourism products are no longer restricted by these types of natural resources. In order to extend the tourism life cycle and to attract more inbound tourists from overseas, more and more niche markets are developing. One such market that has been highlighted recently is food tourism. Over the past two decades, food tourism is emerging as an area of practical interest for both the host country and tourists as food is an inevitable experience at the travel destination.Food, unlike other natural resources can be provided year-round by utilizing local ingredients.For destination managers there is a need to develop a sense of regional distinctiveness and to maintain the local cultural traditions of their regions. For tourists, food provides the tourists with a novel experience and the chance to become more deeply involved in the local culture and traditions.Accordingly, because of the benefits of food tourism, it has also created interest among scholars to investigate in greater depth. However, even though the study of tourism is increasing, research issues and topics are still somewhat limited. At this stage, there is still a lack of research regarding the tourist's traditional food consumption behaviour. In redressing this omission, this study examines consumer choice behaviour of traditional Taiwanese foods. The specific objectives of this study are to: firstly, explore the food choice behaviour in relation to traditional food; secondly, to examine the impact of personality traits on tourists' traditional food choice behaviour. After a review of the literature, the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) was selected to help explain tourists' traditional food buying behaviour. This theory of TPB was used as it explained human's behaviour from the perspective of the attitude-behaviour relationship and allows the researcher to conduct empirically based research. Furthermore, personality traits have been regarded as an important factor that influences people's food choice behaviour. Therefore, in order to examine the influence of food tourism, two personality traits, food neophobia and sensation-seeking have been examined in this study.A quantitative research study design was adopted which was based on the postpostivism paradigm. A pilot survey was conducted in Australia involving 149 respondents to confirm the iii validity and reliability of the six scales used in the pilot study. As a result, the final questionnaire consisted of a total of 44 items in six different scales and two open-ended questions. The final survey was conducted using face-to-face interviews in Taiwan, with Caucasian tourists using a convenience sampling design. This resulted in 389 completed questionnaires. SPSS version 21 and AMOS version 21 were employed to analyse the numeric data and to test the hypotheses.Statistical techniques used with the pilot survey data included item analysis, reliability, and exploratory factor analysis. Fo...

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“…En algunas investigaciones con adultos angloparlantes (Eachus, 2004;Litvin, 2008) y españoles (López-Bonilla y López-Bonilla, 2010) se han encontrado que posee propiedades psicométricas satisfactorias respecto a la validez interna de sus ítems, su relación con otros constructos y su consistencia interna. También, algunos resultados no publicados (e.g., Cheah, 2003) indicaron buenas propiedades psicométricas y similares al estudio original de Hoyle et al (2002).…”

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Escala breve de búsqueda de sensaciones (BSSS): estructura latente de las versiones de 8 y 4 ítems en adolescentes peruanos

Merino-Soto

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2017

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Questionnaires were administered to 618 voluntary participants, with an average age of 13.6 years, from different levels of high school, state and private school in a district in the south of Lima. It analyzed the internal structure of both short versions using three models: a) unidimensional (M1), b) oblique or related dimensions (M2), and c) the bifactor model (M3). Results show that both instruments have a single dimension which best represents the variability of the items; a fact that can be explained both by the complexity of the concept and by the small number of items representing each factor, which is more noticeable in the BSSS4. Reliability is within levels found by previous studies: alpha: .745 = BSSS8 and BSSS4 =. 643; omega coefficient: .747 in BSSS8 and .651 in BSSS4. These are considered suitable for the type of instruments studied. Based on the correlation between the two instruments, it was found that there are satisfactory levels of equivalence between the BSSS8 and BSSS4. However, it is recommended that the BSSS4 is mainly used for research and for the purpose of describing populations. ambos instrumentos tienen una sola dimensión que representa mejor la variabilidad de los ítems, hecho que puede ser explicado tanto por la complejidad del concepto como por la pequeña cantidad de ítems que representan a cada factor; aspecto que se potencia en el BSSS4; la fiabilidad cae dentro de los niveles que los estudios anteriores hallaron (Alfa: BSSS8= .745 y BSSS4= .643) y (Coeficiente Omega: .747 del BSSS8 y .651 del BSSS4) los mismos que se consideran adecuados para el tipo de instrumentos estudiados. A partir de la correlación entre ambos instrumentos, se encontró que existen niveles satisfactorios de equivalencia entre el BSSS8 y BSSS4. Se recomienda sin embargo que el BSSS4 se utilice fundamentalmente para trabajos de investigación y con propósitos de describir poblaciones.Palabras clave: búsqueda de sensaciones; adolescente; estructura interna; validación; fiabilidad; equivalencia. Escala breve de búsqueda de sensaciones (BSSS): estructura latente de las versiones de 8 y 4 ítems en adolescentes peruanos

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Using the Brief Sensation Seeking Scale (BSSS) to predict holiday preferences

Cited by 56 publications

References 11 publications

Caffeinated Alcohol, Sensation Seeking, and Injury Risk

Caffeinated Alcohol, Sensation Seeking, and Injury Risk

Food tourism: consumer behaviour in relation to traditional food

Escala breve de búsqueda de sensaciones (BSSS): estructura latente de las versiones de 8 y 4 ítems en adolescentes peruanos

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