Satisfaction with travel and subjective well-being: Development and test of a measurement tool

By Dick Ettema, Tommy Gärling, L. Eriksson, M. Friman, Lars E. Olsson, Satoshi Fujii. 2011

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology, Transportation

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Perceived urban design qualities and affective experiences of walking (2016, background): “…2006; Fyhri and Hjortol 2009), and it is already established that travelling by car (Jakobsson Bergstad et al. 2011), public transport (Friman 2004; Ettema et al. 2011; Eriksson, Friman, and Gärling 2013) and cycling (Westman et al. 2013) may evoke affective experiences, including alteration of…”
Do satisfying walking and cycling trips result in more future trips with active travel modes? An exploratory study (2019, methodology): “Travel satisfaction In order to measure travel satisfaction of respondents’ most recent leisure trip, we use the Satisfaction with Travel Scale (STS) (De Vos et al., 2015; Ettema et al., 2011; Friman et al., 2013).”
How satisfying is the Scale for Travel Satisfaction (2015, methodology): “…and confident/worried do not fully fit, respectively, the positive activation/negative deactivation and positive deactivation/negative activation dimension may reflect that these adverse adjective pairs appear not to have been tested extensively before they were introduced by Ettema et al. (2011).”
Travel mode choice and travel satisfaction: bridging the gap between decision utility and experienced utility (2016, methodology): “Thus, the STS (Ettema et al. 2011) measures affect during travel and a cognitive evaluation of a trip made.”
What makes travel pleasant and/or tiring? An investigation based on the French National Travel Survey (2012, background): “, 2011; LaJeunesse and Rodriguez, 2012); a newly-developed “satisfaction with travel scale” (Ettema et al., 2011; Friman et al., 2013) as well as a single-item measure of satisfaction with the commute (AbouZeid et al.”
Commuting and wellbeing: a critical overview of the literature with implications for policy and future research (2019, background): “Ettema et al. (2011) proposed a measurement scale for travel satisfaction (which has frequently been applied in studies of commuting travel), which includes both cognitive and affective components.”
What Moves Us? An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Reasons for Traveling (2015, background): “Recent scholarship has explored the experience of travel per se, including the development of scales that measure satisfaction with travel (Ettema et al., 2011 and related papers).”
Response to Travel Information: A Behavioural Review (2015, background): “A travel satisfaction scale has been developed by Ettema et al. (2011) but does not relate to availability of information.”
Meso- or micro-scale? Environmental factors influencing pedestrian satisfaction (2014, background): “Investigating satisfaction with travel and subjective well-being (SWB), Ettema et al. (2011) showed that SWB is influenced by travel mode, travel time, and access to bus stops.”
Satisfaction-induced travel behaviour (2019, background): “For more information on the STS, see De Vos et al. (2015); Ettema et al. (2011), and Friman et al. (2013).”
Travel and Subjective Well-Being: A Focus on Findings, Methods and Future Research Needs (2013, methodology): “These findings suggest a relationship between the experienced quality of travel and overall well-being (Ettema et al., 2011, 2012).”