Influence of Dark Tourism Visitors’ Motivations, Community Attachments, and their Emotional Experiences for Behavioral Intentions

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Seungpil Yang ◽  
Lee Hajeong
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Dark Tourism ◽  
Community Attachments

Do tourists’ emotional experiences influence images and intentions in yoga tourism?

2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 646-665 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pramod Sharma ◽  
Jogendra Kumar Nayak
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Predictive Power ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of tourists’ emotional experiences on predicting behavioral intentions via cognitive, affective and overall image in yoga tourism. Design/methodology/approach This study was conducted using data collected from 398 tourists visiting a yoga tourism destination in India. Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling were used in analyzing the collected data. Findings The study confirmed that specific tourists’ emotions act as a predictor of cognitive, affective and overall image. This in turn influenced the behavioral intentions of tourists. The effect of specific emotions on affective image was stronger than on cognitive image in yoga tourism. Practical implications The marketing campaign of yoga tourism should highlight the special benefits of yoga to activate, stimulate and influence tourists toward yoga tourism, thereby improving the flow of future tourists. It would also help in better positioning and promoting yoga tourism as a unique and distinct niche tourism market. Originality/value This study contributed to the literature by understanding the predictive power of specific emotions on behavioral intentions via, cognitive, affective and overall image in yoga tourism. As far as the authors’ knowledge is concerned, this study is first known attempt to investigate such relationships in tourism literature.

scholarly journals MOTIVES, OBSESSION WITH DEATH AND BEHAVIORAL INTENTIONS IN DARK TOURISM

TEME ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 455
Author(s):  
Darko Dimitrovski ◽  
Maja Luković ◽  
Vladimir Senić
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Intention ◽  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Emotional Response ◽  
Dark Tourism ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Historic Significance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Potential Moderator ◽  
Significant Moderator

Dark tourism varies in form from other types of tourism in that it involves visiting tragic sites or sites where death of historic significance occurred. This study explores the influence of the main motivators on behavioral intentions of those visiting dark tourism events by examining the impact of learning, socialization, relaxation and escape, emotional response and novelty on behavioral intentions, whilst variable death obsession is set as potential moderator of interdependence between independent variables and dependent variables. The findings suggest that learning, emotional response and novelty have a statistically significant impact on behavioral intentions, while death obsession is not seen as significant moderator. Purpose of research was to determine if death obsession as psychological trait have any influence on relation between motivation and behavioral intention in dark tourism event context.

Residents’ Cognitive Appraisals, Emotions, and Coping Strategies at Local Dark Tourism Sites

2021 ◽  
pp. 004728752110047
Author(s):  
Evan J. Jordan ◽  
Girish Prayag
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Cognitive Appraisals ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Dark Tourism ◽  
Tourism Attractions ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Depth Interviews

While tourist emotions elicited at dark tourism sites are well understood, little is known about residents’ experiences at local dark tourism sites. This study explores residents’ emotional experiences at dark tourism sites, the cognitive appraisals of their experiences and emotions, and the coping strategies they deploy to address them. In-depth interviews with 37 residents of Christchurch, New Zealand (site of the Canterbury earthquakes), reveal that residents cognitively appraised their experience at local dark tourism sites on important facets such as centrality and controllability. Visits to local dark tourism sites embodied memories of the disaster that elicit more negative (e.g., sadness) than positive emotions (e.g., gratefulness). Residents coped through seeking comfort from others or positive reappraisal of the experience. Furthermore, visits to dark tourism sites are in and of themselves a coping strategy for residents postdisaster. Implications for the development of dark tourism attractions and support for resident well-being are offered.

Stereotypes: A source of bias in affective and empathic forecasting

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wesley G. Moons ◽  
Jacqueline M. Chen ◽  
Diane M. Mackie
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Path Modeling ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Target Individual ◽  
The Social ◽  
Race Experiment ◽  
Affective Forecasts

People’s emotional states often depend on the emotions of others. Consequently, to predict their own responses to social interactions (i.e., affective forecasts), we contend that people predict the emotional states of others (i.e., empathic forecasts). We propose that empathic forecasts are vulnerable to stereotype biases and demonstrate that stereotypes about the different emotional experiences of race (Experiment 1) and sex groups (Experiment 2) bias empathic forecasts. Path modeling in both studies demonstrates that stereotype-biased empathic forecasts regarding how a target individual will feel during a social interaction are associated with participants’ affective forecasts of how they will feel during that interaction with the target person. These affective forecasts, in turn, predict behavioral intentions for the social interaction before it even begins. Stereotypes can therefore indirectly bias affective forecasts by first influencing the empathic forecasts that partly constitute them. In turn, these potentially biased affective forecasts determine social behaviors.

Intraindividual Variability and Stability of Affect and Well-Being

GeroPsych ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Röcke ◽  
Annette Brose
Keyword(s):  
Age Differences ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Regulatory Processes ◽  
Functional Implications ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Underlying Processes

Whereas subjective well-being remains relatively stable across adulthood, emotional experiences show remarkable short-term variability, with younger and older adults differing in both amount and correlates. Repeatedly assessed affect data captures both the dynamics and stability as well as stabilization that may indicate emotion-regulatory processes. The article reviews (1) research approaches to intraindividual affect variability, (2) functional implications of affect variability, and (3) age differences in affect variability. Based on this review, we discuss how the broader literature on emotional aging can be better integrated with theories and concepts of intraindividual affect variability by using appropriate methodological approaches. Finally, we show how a better understanding of affect variability and its underlying processes could contribute to the long-term stabilization of well-being in old age.

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