The Intrinsic Experience of Tourism Autobiographical Memory on Environmentally Responsible Behavior: A Self-Expansion Perspective
The existing literature on environmentally responsible behavior in tourists focuses primarily on the factors that influence this behavior, such as tourists’ attitudes and negative feelings. However, the intrinsic benefits of conservation for individual and societal well-being are often overlooked. U...
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| description | The existing literature on environmentally responsible behavior in tourists focuses primarily on the factors that influence this behavior, such as tourists’ attitudes and negative feelings. However, the intrinsic benefits of conservation for individual and societal well-being are often overlooked. Under the theoretical lens of self-expansion theory, this study examined the influence of Chinese tourists’ tourism autobiographical memory on their environmentally responsible behavior using a questionnaire survey (N = 434) with partial least squares structural equation modeling. The result attested that tourists’ self-expansion and psychological richness serially mediate the association between their tourism autobiographical memory and environmentally responsible behavior as a tourist. In addition, the implicit theories of personality moderate the prediction of tourist autobiographical memory on self-expansion. The results provide an additional explanation for environmentally responsible behavior in tourists, with practical implications for marketers and operators in the industry. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-96d526bee7334b229476e786ee39729d2025-01-24T13:22:34ZengMDPI AGBehavioral Sciences2076-328X2024-12-01151210.3390/bs15010002The Intrinsic Experience of Tourism Autobiographical Memory on Environmentally Responsible Behavior: A Self-Expansion PerspectiveJunxian Shen0Cora Un In Wong1Hongfeng Zhang2Fanbo Li3Jianhui Chen4Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Macao Polytechnic University, Macao 999078, ChinaFaculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Macao Polytechnic University, Macao 999078, ChinaFaculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Macao Polytechnic University, Macao 999078, ChinaSchool of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100190, ChinaSchool of Hospitality and Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 999077, ChinaThe existing literature on environmentally responsible behavior in tourists focuses primarily on the factors that influence this behavior, such as tourists’ attitudes and negative feelings. However, the intrinsic benefits of conservation for individual and societal well-being are often overlooked. Under the theoretical lens of self-expansion theory, this study examined the influence of Chinese tourists’ tourism autobiographical memory on their environmentally responsible behavior using a questionnaire survey (N = 434) with partial least squares structural equation modeling. The result attested that tourists’ self-expansion and psychological richness serially mediate the association between their tourism autobiographical memory and environmentally responsible behavior as a tourist. In addition, the implicit theories of personality moderate the prediction of tourist autobiographical memory on self-expansion. The results provide an additional explanation for environmentally responsible behavior in tourists, with practical implications for marketers and operators in the industry.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15/1/2travel memorysustainable tourism behaviorpsychological richnessself-expansion theorytourist experiencepersonality beliefs |
| spellingShingle | Junxian Shen Cora Un In Wong Hongfeng Zhang Fanbo Li Jianhui Chen The Intrinsic Experience of Tourism Autobiographical Memory on Environmentally Responsible Behavior: A Self-Expansion Perspective Behavioral Sciences travel memory sustainable tourism behavior psychological richness self-expansion theory tourist experience personality beliefs |
| title | The Intrinsic Experience of Tourism Autobiographical Memory on Environmentally Responsible Behavior: A Self-Expansion Perspective |
| title_full | The Intrinsic Experience of Tourism Autobiographical Memory on Environmentally Responsible Behavior: A Self-Expansion Perspective |
| title_fullStr | The Intrinsic Experience of Tourism Autobiographical Memory on Environmentally Responsible Behavior: A Self-Expansion Perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Intrinsic Experience of Tourism Autobiographical Memory on Environmentally Responsible Behavior: A Self-Expansion Perspective |
| title_short | The Intrinsic Experience of Tourism Autobiographical Memory on Environmentally Responsible Behavior: A Self-Expansion Perspective |
| title_sort | intrinsic experience of tourism autobiographical memory on environmentally responsible behavior a self expansion perspective |
| topic | travel memory sustainable tourism behavior psychological richness self-expansion theory tourist experience personality beliefs |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15/1/2 |
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