Self-determined travel facilitation with mental construal priming

Ye Zhang, Shu Cole, Edward Hirt and Anil Bilgihan

Tourism Management, 2017, vol. 61, issue C, 472-483

Abstract: In order to encourage people with mobility impairments (PwMI) to become active tourists, it is crucial to enhance their self-determination for overcoming travel constraints. This study proposes mental construal priming as a relatively efficient approach to facilitating self-determined travel pursuits among PwMI. Two pretest-posttest web-based experiments within the context of accessible and inaccessible service support the construal-facilitating effect on self-determined travel motivations, particularly through moderating the relationships between autonomy/competence satisfaction and self-determined motivations. This study offers theoretical implications by bridging construal level theory and self-determination theory, and introduces a new perspective of utilizing mindset intervention to cultivate travel motivations. The context-based adoption of different construal priming programs is recommended to maximize facilitation effectiveness.

Keywords: Construal level theory; Self-determination theory; Goal pursuit; Travel constraint; People with mobility impairments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2017.03.014

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