Development of a Scale to Measure Intrapersonal Psychological Empowerment to Participate in Local Tourism Development: Applying the Sociopolitical Control Scale Construct to Tourism (SPCS-T)

Eunseong Jeong, Changsup Shim, Alan Dixon Brown and Shieun Lee
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Eunseong Jeong: Department of Tourism Management, Honam University, Gwangju 62399, Korea
Changsup Shim: Department of Tourism Management, Gachon University, Seongnam-si 13120, Korea
Alan Dixon Brown: Department of Economics, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, Korea
Shieun Lee: Korean Peninsula Tourism Center, Korea Tourism Organization, Wonju-si 26464, Korea

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 7, 1-16

Abstract: Future tourism development must be guided by thoughtful and effective policies that represent the interests of a majority of community members to maximize the positive and minimize the negative impact on communities. Effective policies rely on the support of an engaged citizenry made up of residents who feel psychologically empowered. The primary purpose of this study was to develop a topic-specific measure of sociopolitical control in order to provide a reliable quantitative tool to evaluate tourism development in host communities. Confirmatory factor analysis yielded indices of an acceptable model fit that support the construct validity of a revised Sociopolitical Control Scale for Tourism (SPCS-T). The present study provides empirical evidence that policymakers and researchers interested in gauging support for future tourism policies can successfully apply the SPCS-T in the tourism context.

Keywords: intrapersonal psychological empowerment; sociopolitical control scale; sustainable tourism development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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