Measuring empowerment: Developing and validating the Resident Empowerment through Tourism Scale (RETS)

By Rhodri Thomas, E. Wood, B. B. Boley, N. McGehee, J. Jiménez, Ancor Suárez-Alemán. 2014

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

Empowerment and resident support for tourism in rural Central and Eastern Europe (CEE): the case of Pomerania, Poland (2017, methodology): “The strong performance of the RETS in this setting provides further justification for the scales international validity and supports its use for measuring empowerment in other international settings.”
Influence of place-based senses of distinctiveness, continuity, self-esteem and self-efficacy on residents' attitudes toward tourism (2015, background): “In place-behavior studies, Breakwell (1986) furnished an identity process theory in which identity is seen as a dynamic, social product of the interaction of capacities for memory, consciousness and organized construals, which are guided by four principles, i.”
Antecedents and Outcomes of Resident Empowerment through Tourism (2021, unknown): “Though researchers have offered different interpretations of empowerment to suit the context in question (Boley and McGehee 2014), the current work adopts the robust definition advanced by Aghazamani and Hunt (2017) that best reflects how empowerment has evolved within the tourism literature.”
Visitors’ Place Attachment and Destination Loyalty: Examining the Roles of Emotional Solidarity and Perceived Safety (2020, methodology): “This method has been widely used in tourism studies by several scholars (e.g., Andereck and Vogt 2002; Boley and McGehee 2014; Lepp and Gibson 2003).”
Tourism Memory Characteristics Scale: Development and Validation (2021, methodology): “To overcome the above measurement constraints, this study followed a rigorous scale development process (Churchill 1979; Boley and McGehee 2014) to extract a seven-dimension model via initial EFA and confirmation via CFA.”