The sensation seeking scale: Its use in a study of the characteristics of people choosing ‘Adventure holidays’

Gilchrist, Helen; Povey, Robert; Dickinson, Adrian; Povey, Rachel

doi:10.1016/0191-8869(95)00095-n

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“…However, studies on sensation seeking and normal behaviour are more limited. For example, sensation seeking is related to leisure [6,41,46,49,50], consumer behavior [27,44], and travel behavior [20,36].…”

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Sensation seeking and e-shoppers

López-Bonilla

2008

Electron Commerce Res

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The concept of sensation seeking has been extensively researched. However, a few studies have been carried out on the relationship between sensation seeking and e-commerce. More specifically, it studied the purchase of leisure products, which usually have a higher frequency of purchase on the Internet. With this in mind, the Brief Sensation Seeking Scale (BSSS) created by Hoyle et al. (Pers. Individ. Differ. 32:401-414, 2002) is used, which adapts items from the SSS-V (Zuckerman et al., J. Consult. Clin. Psychol. 46:139-149, 1978). The results, based on a sample of 393 participants, explain that significant differences exist between e-shoppers and none-shoppers of leisure products with respect to the subscale of thrill and adventure seeking. Also, it is observed that there are significant differences between shoppers and non-shoppers only with women.

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Sensation seeking and e-shoppers

López-Bonilla

2008

Electron Commerce Res

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“…Galloway and Lopez 30 found empirical associations between results of respondents on a sensation seeking scale and their attitudes towards national parks, which bears significant potential for improved marketing messages. Similarly, Gilchrist et al 31 determined significant differences between the sensation seeking scores of adventure travellers and non-adventure travellers. Rowland, Franken and Harrison 32 found strong empirical evidence for the association of risk and sensation seeking with travel behaviour and the choice of leisure activities.…”

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Understanding barriers to leisure travel: Tourist fears as a marketing basis

Dolničar

2005

Journal of Vacation Marketing

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The usefulness of investigating fears tourists associate with leisure travel as basis for strategic and operational marketing is investigated. Tourism-related fears are elicited from the tourism marketplace to gain insight into the precise risks today's tourists perceive and heterogeneity of respondents with regard to these risk perceptions are investigated in the context of domestic and overseas travel. Distinctly different patterns of perceived risks emerge for different destination contexts as well as subsegments of tourists. This knowledge could form a good basis for optimising marketing communication messages to address tourists' concerns more effectively.

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“…However, Gilchrist, Povey, Povey, and Dickinson (1995) found a significant difference in the sensation-seeking personality trait based on gender but not on age differences. Food neophobia has been related to gender, educational level, nationality, income and age (Camarena, Sanjuán, & Philippidis, 2011;Dovey, Staples, Gibson, & Halford, 2008;Meiselman, King, & Gillette, 2010;Tuorila et al, 2001).…”

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Food tourism: consumer behaviour in relation to traditional food

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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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The sensation seeking scale: Its use in a study of the characteristics of people choosing ‘Adventure holidays’

Cited by 48 publications

References 3 publications

Sensation seeking and e-shoppers

Sensation seeking and e-shoppers

Understanding barriers to leisure travel: Tourist fears as a marketing basis

Food tourism: consumer behaviour in relation to traditional food

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