Understanding Leisure Trip Experience and Subjective Well-Being: an Illustration of Creative Travel Experience

Yu-Chih Huang (), Jen-Son Cheng () and Lan Lan Chang ()
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Yu-Chih Huang: National Chi-Nan University
Jen-Son Cheng: National Chi-Nan University
Lan Lan Chang: Asia University

Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2020, vol. 15, issue 4, No 12, 1182 pages

Abstract: Abstract Leisure activities provide an opportunity to stimulate an individual’s creative potential, making positive contributions to health and well-being. Using a positive psychology perspective as a guide for understanding the relationships between tourists and their interactions with creative tourist attractions, this study attempts to detect the positive effects of creative leisure travel experience on positive emotions, behavioral intentions and subjective well-being. Based on Self Determination Theory, this study investigates whether psychological needs satisfaction can be derived from a tourism environment that provides opportunities to experience positive emotions as well as enhances subjective well-being. The present study points to the importance of positive effects from creative leisure travel experience on subjective well-being by extending the research framework of SDT to incorporate the positive emotions perspective for understanding tourist experience. This study also confirms that psychological needs satisfaction acts as an important antecedent of behavioral intention to revisit creative tourist attractions.

Keywords: Leisure travel experience; Self-determination theory; Psychological needs satisfaction; Positive emotion; Behavioral intention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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