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- Title
印记的延续性影响:老年人旅游福祉发生的积极机制.
- Authors
向科衡; 吴茂英; 王龙杰
- Abstract
Active aging has been gaining greater attention in tourism research. There, however, are insufficient studies examining seniors’tourism well- being, most of which are based on a demand framework and a life course framework. Few scholars have explored the occurrence mechanism and intrinsic framework of seniors’tourism well-being from a temporal framework, and even fewer have analyzed the dynamic impacts of seniors’tourism on tourism well-being from a temporal dimension. To bridge these research gaps, this study integrates the imprinting theory and continuity theory, two theories with implicit temporal frameworks, to explore the intrinsic association between seniors’ tourism well- being and active aging from the individual level. The imprinting theory emphasizes on temporal discontinuity, while the continuity theory s emphasizes on temporal continuity. A combination of these two theories provides a temporal framework for analyzing the well-being of seniors in tourism and active aging. This framework naturally fits the two core research questions of this paper: The mechanisms by which the imprinting and continuity behaviors and psychology of older adults affect older adults tourism well-being and the content framework of older adults’tourism well-being over time. Since imprinting is presented in the form of individual memories, this study adopts a memory research approach to explore the mechanisms by which seniors’tourism well-being occurs and analyzes and constructs the influence of respondents’past imprinting on their current behavior through their memory stories. The findings of this research include: First, the temporal framework based on the imprinting process and continuity theory can effectively reveal how seniors’tourism well- being is generated during their interaction with tourism scenarios. The multiple sources of seniors’imprinting are influenced by the paths of need satisfaction, role change, and emotional cognition, etc. Different imprinting will form a dynamic process, and the multiple imprinting relationships will have an impact on seniors’tourism well-being. The multiple imprinting relationships will have demand, role and emotionrelated effects on seniors’tourismwell-being and trigger the well-being perception mechanism. Second, the matching of seniors’past experiences with the current environment generates two paths of continuity and discontinuity. When past experiences and the current environment mismatches, a discontinuous path appears. When the differences between the past experiences and the current environment are minimum, a continuous path occurs. Seniors’tourism well- being is sequentially shaped by continuum behaviors, which result in transition, conservative, adaptation, and confirmation periods. This provides a concrete basis for explaining the mechanisms of occurrence of tourism wellbeing in older adults. Finally, after merging and integrating the elements of memory episodes, trigger sources, and conflict, this study finally distills the content framework of seniors’tourism well- being that shows the meaning construction, demonstrating the four aspects of meaning construction included in the content framework of seniors’tourism well-being in the time frame, namely, forgiveness, hope, altruism, and spiritual awareness. This study provides practical implications for senior’s well-being management.
- Subjects
ACTIVE aging; EVIDENCE gaps; OLDER people; TOURISM impact; WELL-being; SCHOOL dropout prevention
- Publication
Tourism Tribune / Lvyou Xuekan, 2023, Vol 38, Issue 6, p90
- ISSN
1002-5006
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.19765/j.cnki.1002-5006.2023.06.012