Travel and Subjective Well-Being: A Focus on Findings, Methods and Future Research Needs

By J. De Vos, Tim Schwanen, Veronique Van Acker, Frank Witlox. 2013

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Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Social Psychology, Transportation

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How satisfying is the Scale for Travel Satisfaction (2015, methodology): “Well-being and travel satisfaction have recently attracted increased attention in transport-related research (De Vos et al., 2013). Over the past years authors have therefore developed scales to measure how people perceive their travel. The scale that has been applied most frequently to date is the ”
Mood and mode: does how we travel affect how we feel? (2014, background): “For a review of recent work, see De Vos et al. (2013), but as the authors note this study is still in its infancy with many substantial gaps remaining to be filled.”
Travel satisfaction revisited : on the pivotal role of travel satisfaction in conceptualizing a travel behavior process (2017, background): “Travel satisfaction can be regarded as a part of Subjective Well-Being (SWB) (De Vos et al., 2013; Ettema et al., 2010).”
Commuting and wellbeing: a critical overview of the literature with implications for policy and future research (2019, background): “It is partly based on the conceptual model of the relationship between travel and wellbeing of Ettema et al. (2010), which highlights that travel may affect different aspects of SWB, and of De Vos et al. (2013), which differentiates impacts of travel in the short-term and long-term.”
Do satisfying walking and cycling trips result in more future trips with active travel modes? An exploratory study (2019, background): “One of the most important elements related to this link is travel satisfaction (De Vos et al., 2013).”
Walking (and cycling) to well-being: Modal and other determinants of subjective well-being during the commute (2018, methodology): “Several well-established psychometric instruments exist for measuring retrospective SWB, most using Likert-type or semantic differential scales (De Vos et al., 2013; Ettema, Gärling, Olsson, & Friman, 2010; Mokhtarian, 2015).”
Does commuting matter to subjective well-being? (2018, background): “…experienced well-being has, especially recently, attracted more attention in transport and mobility studies, since transport is intricately linked to the well-being of the economy as well as communities and is seen as the blood of society (e.g., Banister et al., 2011; De Vos et al., 2013).”
Do people travel with their preferred travel mode? Analysing the extent of travel mode dissonance and its effect on travel satisfaction (2018, background): “Over the past decade, an increasing interest in the link between travel and well-being has resulted in studies analysing how satisfied people are with specific trips and travel in general (De Vos et al., 2013; Ettema et al., 2010; Lancée et al., 2017).”