Craft museum visitors’ interactive experiences,benefits and behavioural intentions: perspectives of Chinese parents

ABSTRACT

Family visitors are important audiences for museums. This paper develops a model that examines the influence of Chinese family visitors’ leisure experiences in museums on their behavioural intentions (BI) with their perceived benefits (mindful benefits and non-mindful benefits, MB and NMB) as the mediating variables. Based on the theoretical framework of an interactive experience model, parents’ experiences in museums were divided into experience of existential authenticity (interaction with the exhibits) (EA) and experience of parents-children interaction (PCI). A total of 375 local family visitors at a cluster of craft museums in Hangzhou, China participated in the survey. The PLS-SEM analysis indicates that both EA and PCI have positive effects on perceived benefits. EA, which emphasises the personal interactions between visitors and exhibited objects as well as their intangible meanings, is found to be more powerful than PCI in shaping visitors’ BI. MB and NMB differ in their influence on visitors’ behaviours. Only MB is linked with visitors’ BI. Further, MB partially mediates the relationship between EA and BI, and fully mediates the relationship between PCI and BI. Implications are offered to enhance family visitors’ experiences through appropriate service management strategies.     

Relating brand anxiety,brand hatred and obsess: Moderating role of age and brand affection

Proficient brand management, including retail brands, is crucial for the success of the firms or retailers. One area of interest is consumers’ negativity towards brands (e.g., hate) due to negative consumer-brand relationships. The present article examines the relationships between brand anxiety, brand hatred and obsess, and illustrates the impacts of age and brand affection on these relationships. Data were collected through an online survey, and partial least squares path modelling was used to test the proposed paths on a sample of 416 consumers. The findings revealed that brand anxiety influenced obsess directly and indirectly through brand hatred. It was also evident that age moderated the path between brand anxiety and brand hatred, while brand affection strengthened the relationship between brand hatred and obsess. Theoretical contributions and managerial implications are discussed subsequently.     

The influence mechanism of environmental anxiety on pro‐environmental behaviour: The role of self‐discrepancy

Environmental anxiety (EA) caused by environmental pollution has prompted consumers to change their behaviour towards greener, lower‐carbon and environmentally friendly. However, its boundary conditions and internal mechanisms are still unclear. With two experiments based on attentional control theory and self‐discrepancy theory, this study aimed to explore the influence mechanism of EA on PEB. In Experiment 1, it was found that environmental anxiety can directly and significantly affect Pro‐environmental behaviour intention (PEBI). In Experiment 2, it was found that at high levels of self‐discrepancy, EA can directly and significantly affect compensatory PEBI, and guilt can play a significant mediating role in the effect of EA on compensatory PEBI. However, EA does not significantly affect promotional PEBI. At low levels of self‐discrepancy, EA can directly and significantly affect promotional PEBI but cannot affect compensatory PEBI. Therefore, we concluded that the same PEB could have different psychological mechanisms in different contexts.     

Drivers of E-store Patronage Intentions: Choice Overload,Internet Shopping Anxiety,and Impulse Purchase Tendency

The dotcom era has infused a rapid increase in the usage of e-commerce in India, making online shopping the new way of retailing. This study investigates online consumers’ e-store patronage intentions, specifically modeling the ties from broad dispositional traits including choice overload, Internet shopping anxiety, and impulse purchase tendency among online shoppers. Based on the responses of 243 online shoppers, the findings suggest that consumers’ e-store patronage has a positive relationship with choice overload such that availability of larger assortments online results in a higher possibility of consumers’ patronage toward such e-tailers. Choice overload in the online context was also found to positively influence consumers’ impulse purchase tendency and showed a positive effect on Internet shopping anxiety. Furthermore, results indicate that the impulse purchase tendency of online shoppers had a significant positive effect on e-store patronage intentions, while Internet shopping anxiety was found to negatively affect the patronage intentions of shoppers.     

论新形势下大学英语课堂学习焦虑的应对

外语学习课堂焦虑作为学习者情感因素的重要的情感变量,近来成为外语教学研究的学术热点。在二语习得过程中,外语学习焦虑不仅作用于语言输入,也作用于语言输出,从而影响学生语言习得效果。在新型外语教学模式和信息技术被广泛应用于外语课堂的今天,在应对外语学习焦虑方面出现了新的挑战,文章针对这些新情况提出了相应的解决办法,旨在降低外语学习焦虑度,以优化教学效果。     

文化旅游真实性感知对旅游者忠诚的影响机制研究——基于旅游者幸福感的中介效应

以往研究在文化旅游真实性感知对旅游者忠诚的影响问题上,得出了不同的结论,在存在主义真实性对旅游者忠诚的影响上存在较大分歧,内在机制尚不清晰。文章以幸福感的两个维度——享乐幸福感和实现幸福感为中介,研究文化旅游真实性感知的两种类型——客体相关真实性和存在主义真实性对旅游者忠诚的影响机制。研究结果表明,客体相关真实性对旅游者忠诚的影响被享乐幸福感和实现幸福感部分中介;存在主义真实性对旅游者忠诚的影响被享乐幸福感和实现幸福感完全中介。文章以幸福感为中介,丰富了文化旅游真实性感知对旅游者忠诚的影响机制研究,同时从享乐幸福感和实现幸福感入手,扩展了旅游者幸福感研究方向,为旅游目的地忠诚研究提供了新的视角。     

关于个体情感因素对英语学习影响的实证研究

焦虑、性格、自尊心以及学习动机是学习者学习英语时的重要情感因素,它们不仅影响学习者的英语学习,而且内部之间也相互影响、相互制约。本研究通过问卷、访谈等方式对学习者的英语学习焦虑、性格、自尊心以及学习动机等作出了调查,并对它们内部之间的关系进行了分析。     

从焦虑感和不确定性处理理论看跨文化交际中的语篇信息度

语篇信息度指对于接受者而言语篇信息超越或低于期望值的程度。信息度过低会使语篇枯燥乏味,而信息度过高又会使语篇晦涩难懂。在跨文化交际中,语篇信息度与焦虑感和不确定性成正比关系。适度的语篇信息度有利于跨文化交际顺利进行。     

老年脑梗塞患者的焦虑抑郁情绪及干预

为对老年脑梗塞患者的心理状态进行量化判定并进行干预治疗,分别对河南省信阳市中心医院神经内科的60名老年脑梗塞患者发出综合医院焦虑抑郁(HAD)情绪问卷.并与40名正常人作比较.对HAD积分阳性者随机分组,进行心理干预性对比治疗.老年脑梗塞患者的焦虑情绪发生率为66.7%,抑郁情绪发生率为56.7%,明显高于正常人群,采用心理干预治疗能明显改善焦虑抑郁情绪.焦虑抑郁情绪广泛存在于老年脑梗塞患者中,适当的心理干预可以明显改善患者的预后.     

Systemic crisis,weltschmerz and tourism: meaning without incense during vacations

The present global economic crisis is revealing manifold fissures in the economic/social/value/sense-making system and that inevitably has an effect on people’s psyche, on their beliefs and desires, even on their perception of needs. Many effects of the present situation are symptoms of a broader type of crisis. The economic crisis may have acted as a catalyst for increasing (social, political, and spiritual) awareness, and it could be paradoxically a landmark and a far-reaching impetus to renewal and awakening of humanity, to build a sounder and more sustainable (social, educational, political, and economic) system. At this crossroad, the reappearance in the last decade of the term weltschmerz is not coincidental. Whereas the extent to which the current economic crisis has produced a personal or integral crisis remains to be measured, it is clear that concepts such as meaning or transcendence – to combat meaninglessness and weltschmerz – have become central in the discussion on qualitative implications in tourism. The paper suggests a meaningful learning framework to identify required elements for a particular, desired outcome (coping with the second domain of existential pain/ weltschmerz), whose empirical relevance and practical developments are examined in this piece of research on tourism experience.