The Relationship between Risk-Taking, Sensation-Seeking, and the Tourist Behavior of Young Adults: A Cross-Cultural Study

By A. Pizam, Ganghoan Jeong, Arie Reichel, Hermann van Boemmel, J. Lusson, L. Steynberg, Olimpia State-Costache, S. Volo, C. Kroesbacher, J. Kučerová and 1 more. 2004

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Subfields: Social Psychology

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Travelers’ Health Risk Perceptions and Protective Behavior: A Psychological Approach (2017, background): “Pizam et al. (2004), for example, argued that individuals who took risks deliberately and were not informed on the potential losses were not necessarily motivated by sensation seeking.”
Perceptions of Risk and Travel Intentions: The Case of China and the Beijing Olympic Games (2009, background): “In reality, not all tourists perceive risk equally, in fact, some are attracted to risky situations while others are repelled (Lepp & Gibson, 2003, 2008; Pizam et al., 2002, 2004).”
Physically Active Leisure and Tourism Connection: Leisure Involvement and Choice of Tourism Activities Among Paddlers (2011, background): “” The preferred vacation/tourism types consisted of seven categories based on various types of travel activities identified by Davis and Sternquist (1987) and Pizam, Jeong, Reichel, van Boemmel, Lusson, et al.”
Satisfaction (2006, background): “However, it has been also found that marital status, gender and occupation did not differ significantly among expenditure-based segments (Mok & Iverson), neither age, education, marital status and income among risk taking-sensation seeking tourist segments (Pizam et al., 2004).”
International university students’ travel risk perceptions: an exploratory study (2018, background): “…the type and importance of risk factors vary according to individuals and their particular situations, and it is further shaped based on a variety of factors such as past experience, lifestyle, or demographic characteristics (Pizam et al., 2004; Reisinger & Mavondo, 2005; Roehl & Fesenmaier, 1992).”
News framing effects on destination risk perception (2016, background): “Among these, personality traits are often considered to be of particular relevance (Fuchs, 2011; Pizam et al., 2004; Roehl & Fesenmaier, 1992).”
Analysis of Structural Equation Model for the Student Pleasure Travel Market: Motivation, Involvement, Satisfaction, and Destination Loyalty (2008, unknown): “Cutler, 1996; Field, 1999; Hsu & Sung, 1997; Kim & Jogaratnam, 2003; Michael, Armstrong, & King, 2003; Pizam et al., 2004; Richards & Wilson; Shoham, Schrage, & Eeden, 2004), travel satisfaction (e.g., Babin & Kim, 2001), and other behaviors based on demographics (e.g., Carr, 2001; Mattila et al.,…”
Risk and Uncertainty in Travel Decision-Making: Tourist and Destination Perspective (2018, unknown): “Some factors that have been integrated in the tourist typology are influenced by the nationality or cultural background of the respondents (e.g., uncertainty avoidance, Kozak, Crotts, and Law 2007; risk perception, Seabra et al. 2013; sensation seeking and risk-taking propensity, Pizam et al. 2004).”
A Review of Personality Research in the Tourism and Hospitality Context (2010, background): “The findings of two studies on SS among young adults confirm that higher SS is related to explorer and drifter tourists ( Lepp & Gibson, 2008 ), and that their destination and activity choices are significantly different from those of individuals with low SS ( Pizam et al, 2004 ).”
Construction and validation of a scale to measure tourist motivation to consume local food. (2012, background): “According to Pizam et al. (2004), a motive such as excitement is the most important predictor in assessing the desire to engage in risky, impulsive, and adventurous activities offering individual unique sensations.”