Travellers' self-protections against health risks: An application of the full Protection Motivation Theory
By Jie Wang, B. Liu-Lastres, Brent W. Ritchie, Deborah Mills. Annals of Tourism Research, 2019
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Ensuring travellers' health and well-being is an important issue in tourism management and public health. By applying and testing the Protection Motivation Theory (PMT), this study serves as one of the early attempts in tourism to explore travellers' self-protective behavior against health risks. This study conducted semi-structured interviews and an online survey. Consistent with the PMT, this study found that both threat and coping appraisals can enhance travellers' protection motivations, which in turn affect their actual behaviors. This study also provided interpretation of maladaptive perception in a tourism context and found its negative association with coping appraisal. Implications were provided on how to encourage travellers to protect themselves against health risks.
Subfields: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
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- Impact of health risk perception on avoidance of international travel in the wake of a pandemic (2021, background): “First, the investigation of travel health risk should be driven by an integrative model in order to better comprehend the psychological mechanism by which tourists form health risk perception (Wang et al., 2019).”
- Does the size of the tourism sector influence the economic policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic? (2021, background): “Another strand of the literature focuses on the health risks perceived by travellers, the impact of those perceived risks on their willingness to travel and, more recently, their motivation to adopt precautionary behaviours (Chien et al., 2017; Mizrachi & Fuchs, 2016; Wang et al., 2019).”
- Seeing the invisible hand: Underlying effects of COVID-19 on tourists’ behavioral patterns (2020, unknown): “These risks can potentially influence individuals’ well-being (Chien et al., 2017; Wang et al., 2019) and are major inhibitors to travel (Quintal, Lee, & Soutar, 2010).”