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A web of relations. Modelling the relations among value orientations, travel motivation, accommodation choice, satisfaction and perceived change in a case study among young travellers in Italy
No full textBeing a booming and influential phenomenon, youth tourism has attracted the interest of both policymakers and academia. However, most studies are either concerned with a particular form of tourism, such as a gap year, or with a specific component of the tourism experience, such as satisfaction. Moreover, when antecedents of a tourism choice are considered, scholars tend either to focus on remote causes of behaviour, such as values or on more immediate ones, such as motivations. Consequently, an overview of the web of relations existing between (remote and immediate) antecedents and the whole range of components of a tourism experience is still lacking. The present study aims at closing this gap by identifying the relations between value orientations and the main travel’s experience components, i.e. motivation, accommodation’s characteristics, satisfaction, and perceived change. This study is part of a larger project aimed at evaluating young travellers’ openness to sustainable tourism offers. The whole project is theoretically grounded on pro-environmental psychology and on the premise that self-transcendence value orientations (such as a biospheric one) increase while self-enhancement value orientations (such as a hedonic one) weaken the chance of sustainable tourism choices. Previous studies in this research line have examined the influence of values on specific components of the travel experience, such as the travel motivation, or have attempted to look at relations among a more limited sets of variables than the present one. The present study aims at closing the circle by considering the impact of opposing value orientations on all main components of the tourism experience simultaneously.
University students - a proxy for young tourists - who travelled independently in the year previous to the survey constitute the research’s sample. Considering remote antecedents of behaviour, the biospheric and hedonic value orientations are chosen because of their opposite impact on sustainable choices. Regarding immediate antecedents of behaviour, the focus is set on two out of the motivations emerging from previous studies by the authors, i.e. ‘Eco-sustainability’ and ‘Fun and Escaping’. Regarding the consumption of the experience itself, accommodation is singled out because of its major (and mostly negative) environmental impact. Satisfaction is considered because of its strategic importance in destination marketing. Finally, perceived change trough travel is also considered. Following previous studies by the authors, change is conceptualized as personal, interpersonal, and transpersonal change.
In a quantitative research design, previously validated scales were used to measure value orientations, motivations, satisfaction and change. Unfortunately, for the accommodation choice, no validated scale existed at the time of data collection (August 2015). Therefore, a scale was developed by the authors. Data was collected at an Italian University using a Computer Assisted Web Interview (c.a.w.i.). The self-selected sample meeting the condition of independent travel consists of 510 respondents aged between 16 and 30 years. Out of the 510 independent travellers, 38 did not answer all relevant questions leaving 472
questionnaires for further analysis. Data analysis has been performed using a structural equations model combining the logic of factor analysis with multiple regressions.
Results confirm that the value orientations influence travel motivations and that travellers experience alongside personal and interpersonal change also change in relation to nature (transpersonal). As expected, a biospheric value orientation influences positively the ‘eco-sustainable motivation’ while a hedonic value orientation influences positively the ‘fun and escaping motivation’ that, interestingly, also positively influences satisfaction. Most interestingly, results indicate the motivation and the degree of satisfaction with the tourism experience influence the type of change perceived. More specifically, personal ad interpersonal change are influenced positively by the ‘eco-sustainable’ motivation and satisfaction. Interpersonal change, moreover, is negatively affected by the ‘fun and escaping motivation’. Transpersonal change is influenced positively only by the ‘eco-sustainable motivation’. In other words, in evaluating the transformational power of travelling one should consider the traveller’s motivation and satisfaction. Finally, values and motivations also influence the accommodation's choice. ‘Fun and escaping’ motivated respondents rate location and feedback higher than other respondents; while respondents with high biospheric values are attracted by the structure’s sustainability policy. The main implication is that accommodations should cater for both type of motivations, by highlighting hedonic experiences at the location for one group and their sustainability stance for the other
Can psychological wellbeing be a predictor of change through travel? An exploratory study on young Dutch travellers
No full textThis paper focuses on the impact of psychological wellbeing on the change perceived after a travel experience by young students. Wellbeing is investigated as a consequence and not as an antecedent of travel, though literature assumes the subjectivity of the travel experience. Expanding on existing literature, it is hypothesized that ‘change through travel’ is a three-dimensional concept: travellers may feel changed in their relationship with themselves, the other and the natural environment. In 2015 a survey was designed to explore the impact of wellbeing on change as a benefit from travel and a questionnaire administrated in a Dutch university. PCA confirmed the hypothesis and showed three-dimensionality of change. Logistic regression models assessed the impact of wellbeing on change. Results suggest that four out of six wellbeing components (positive relations to others, autonomy, purpose in life, self-acceptance) influence the dimensions of change. Implications of these results for academics and professionals are discussed
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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