Gerard T Kyle
Biographic Data
| ID | 3487477 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerard T Kyle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerard T |
| FAMILY NAME | Kyle |
| SIGNATURE | KYLE G T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6944-9020 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 580 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Understanding mitigation intentions for aquatic invasive species: A protection motivation theory perspective
Norm Neutralization and Climate Inaction: Application of the Norm Activation Model to Climate Change
Although climate change understanding and concern have grown in recent years among the U.S. public, Americans remain divided about climate action. This paradox reflects the barriers in translating concern to behavior and underscores a need to explore the cognitive mechanisms inhibiting climate action. To this end, we examined how individuals apply psychological techniques, namely denial of responsibility, denial of injury, denial of victim, conde…
Bridging the political ideology climate gap through connecting individuals to nature
Human's abstraction from nature has created a situation where the impacts of an array of environmentally detrimental behaviours are realised across scales, challenging the resilience of at‐risk communities. Complicating this divide is the political ideology gap on issues including nature connectedness, environmental concerns, and climate change beliefs. This research investigated associations between individuals' connection to nature, their clima…
Validation and Application of a Perception of Community Adaptive Capacity to Coastal Hazards Measure
Evaluating adaptive capacities that support the resilience of at-risk communities can be from an objective (top-down) approach or from a subjective (bottom-up) approach. While both approaches are valuable, there remains a need for quantitative subjective measures that complement objective measures by grounding understanding in community members’ perceptions and experiences. To address this need, a 12-item self-report assessment scale of community…
Self-determination theory as an alternate conceptual foundation for motivation in natural resource research
Motivation is a topic that receives substantial interest across the social sciences. However, in the human dimensions of natural resource literature, scholars have primarily treated motivation as a construct narrowly defined by the individual's desired goal state. In contrast, self-determination theory (SDT) suggests that multiple forms of motivation can influence levels of self-determination, integration of identities, and subsequent behavioral …
An application of protection motivation theory to understand the influence of fear-appeal media on stated donations for coral reef restoration
Crowding, coping and place attachment in nature
Conservation scholars' perspectives on the morality of trophy hunting for the sake of conservation
Trophy hunting is one of the most contentious issues in recent biodiversity conservation discourse, eliciting opposition and support for the practice. Ethical concerns are often at the heart of the debate. To investigate moral views about trophy hunting, we conducted an online survey of randomly selected scholars worldwide who had published on biodiversity conservation ( n = 2315). Scholars expressed divergent views on the moral acceptability of …
The Multidirectional Associations of Behavior, Identity, and Experience in Leisure
Characterizing style of participation among Texas inshore recreational fishing guides
Connecting to the trail: Natural spaces as places of healing
The concept of “place” has been explored for decades, examining how specific geographic locales impact social meanings and interactions, sentimentality associated with a specific environment, and the construction of identity through prolonged place interaction. While meanings often differ based on individual history and interactions, physical environments are often symbolic; they may come to embody elements of potential, catharsis, restoration, o…
Displacement and associated substitution behavior among Texas inshore fishing guides due to perceived spotted seatrout declines
Shifting setting densities and normative evaluations of recreation experiences over time
Psychological Needs Satisfaction and Attachment to Natural Landscapes
Motivation has long been implicated as an antecedent to place attachment among recreationists. Research has framed this association around expectancy theory, suggesting that the realization of preferred modes of experience leads to a positive evaluation of a setting (i.e., attachment). In this study, we tested an alternative hypothesis rooted in self-determination theory, which purported that place attachment arises from the realization of human …
The Political Ecology of Place Meaning: Identity, Political Self-Determination and Illicit Resource Use in the Manas Tiger Reserve, India
We address the intersection of place-based identity and environmental outcomes. We focus on an indigenous tribal community, the Bodos residing both within and in proximity to one of the key spaces for biodiversity conservation in north-eastern India – the Manas Tiger Reserve. We illustrate that the Bodo sense of place, the meanings they ascribe to the landscape, is indelibly linked to identity. We conduct a historical exploration of the politics …
On the relationship between hunters and pro-environmental intent
Unprecedented climate change and ecosystem degradation require immediate action at individual and societal levels. It has been suggested that hunting, as a nature-based activity, can contribute to pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors. However, social psychological mechanisms driving hunter engagement in pro-environmental behavior are less understood. We used a sample consisted of hunter and non-hunter students from a large southern U.S. univ…
Using a styles of participation self-classification measure to characterize highly specialized anglers: Styles of participation
The purpose of our study was to develop a measure of angling guides’ contextual styles of participation and investigate its ability for revealing heterogeneity among this highly specialized population. Data drawn from a sample (n = 391) of licensed Texas Gulf Coast inshore fishing guides revealed that a self-classification measure that explicitly identified attributes of the preferred style of fishing, such as bait, tackle, and technique, was eff…
Coping with crowded recreation settings: A cross-cultural investigation
The “satisfaction model” of crowding in outdoor recreation has provided insight into the relationship between recreationists’ negative evaluation of setting density and their evaluation of the leisure experience. Much of the literature has demonstrated a consistently weak association leading many to ponder the presence of other confounds. Several authors have suggested the importance of recreationists’ ability to cope with setting conditions. We …
Identifying place meanings ascribed to the Baekdu-Daegan trail in South Korea
Using photo-based interviews with hikers who had completed hiking the Baekdu-Daegan (BD) trail in South Korea, this study investigated their place meanings ascribed to the trail and how mountain landscape attributes effect their meaning construction. Ten meaning-themes emerged from the analyses: aesthetic value, therapeutic value, challenging experience, nature conservation, connection to nature, social connections with people, self-discipline an…
The efficacy of message frames on recreational boaters’ aquatic invasive species mitigation behavioral intentions
Aquatic invasive species (AIS) management often requires a human-centered focus that entails communicating with resource-users about needed mitigation behaviors. Messaging is a common communication practice to this end, and evaluating how messaging influences user behavior is an essential component. To test the effects of messaging on AIS mitigation behavioral intentions, 1,338 participants were randomly assigned to one of four message framing co…
Extending the Return Potential Model With a Descriptive Normative Belief Measure
Norm research continually informs our understanding of the relationships between societies and natural resources. This research note presents an operationalization of descriptive beliefs within the return potential model (RPM) framework. We observed significant differences between a traditional RPM measure of approval and a descriptive measure of commonness in the context of boaters’ aquatic invasive species mitigation behaviors. These results pr…
Accounting for Gender in a Study of the Motivation-Involvement Relationship
The effects of gender on involvement in high-risk recreation have received limited research attention despite mounting evidence suggesting the learned interactions between people and places likely vary for men and women. The purpose of this study was to provide insights into how gender influenced the motivation-involvement relationship among whitewater recreationists on a Wild and Scenic River in California. Our results revealed the motivations o…
Place attachment and spending preferences in a local public park system: The case of corporate sponsorship
In light of reduced public spending on local park and recreation services, corporate sponsorship has received attention as an effective, but potentially controversial, alternative funding strategy. Visitor place attachment may significantly influence the acceptability of specific spending practices of sponsorship revenue. The present study examines the influence of park users’ place attachment on the relationship between their attitude toward cor…
Coping with change in rural landscapes: The psychological stress of rural residents experiencing unconventional gas developments
An Augmented Norm Activation Model: The Case of Residential Outdoor Water Use
Understanding the factors that influence voluntary conservation is critical for developing effective residential water conservation policy. Previous work drawing on Schwartz’s Norm Activation Model (NAM) has been useful to understand some of these factors. However, one’s relationship with the broader community impacted by consumptive decisions has often been overlooked. Similarly, scholars have emphasized the importance of contextual factors not …
An Examination of the Relationship between Leisure Activity Involvement and Place Attachment among Hikers Along the Appalachian Trail
The place attachment construct has been used by leisure researchers and practitioners to refine our understanding of certain leisure behaviors for over two decades. Despite the construct's importance to natural resource-based leisure, little empirical work has appeared in the leisure literature examining the construct's antecedent processes; that is, the processes that lead to recreationists'; attachment to settings. This study examined one antec…
The Social Nature of Leisure Involvement
The involvement construct has been used to explain a variety of leisure-related phenomena. While these efforts have made valuable contributions toward furthering the field's understanding of leisure behavior and involvement in particular, many of these investigations have been limited by the measures used to operationalize the construct. Most research that has incorporated the construct in their investigations has been quantitative and has employ…
Effect of Activity Involvement and Place Attachment on Recreationists' Perceptions of Setting Density
Research examining recreationists' perceptions of setting density in outdoor recreation contexts has illustrated the influence of a number of factors. In this investigation we examined the effect of activity involvement and place attachment on hikers' perceptions of setting density using frameworks offered by social judgment and cognitive development theories. We hypothesized that respondents' perceptions of setting density would involve cognitiv…
Enduring leisure involvement: The importance of personal relationships
In this investigation we sought to explore the properties of enduring leisure involvement from the perspective of campers attending an agricultural encampment and fair in the United States. Using informants' narratives of their experiences, we sought to address the research question: ‘what elements of informants' experience of the fair have sustained their involvement with it throughout their lives?’ It was revealed that informants' experiences a…
The Social Construction of a Sense of Place
The purpose of this investigation was to explore the meanings recreationists tenting at an agricultural fair associated with the settings in which their fair experience occurred. Using a symbolic interactionist framework, our analysis of data collected through onsite observation and using photo-elicitation guided interviews illustrated that informants' place meanings were the product of interactive processes involving the individual, their social…
An Examination of Recreationists' Relationships with Activities and Settings
The place attachment construct has demonstrated utility for explaining a variety of leisure behavior in outdoor recreation contexts. Preliminary evidence suggests that recreationists' involvement with leisure activities is an antecedent to their attachment to specific settings. Multidimensional measures of these constructs, however, indicate that linear interpretations of their relations may be misleading. Given that both involvement and place at…
An Examination of the Leisure Involvement—Agency Commitment Relationship
Building from the existing literature, we tested a model suggesting that leisure involvement is an antecedent of commitment to a public leisure service provider (N = 860). Leisure involvement was conceptualized as a multidimensional construct consisting of attraction, centrality, and self-expression. Agency commitment was also conceptualized as multidimensional construct consisting of five components; place identity, place dependence, affective a…
The Moderating Role of Place Attachment on the Relationship Between Attitudes Toward Fees and Spending Preferences
The variable, place attachment, has recently been used by investigators to assist in understanding visitor responses to fee programs on public lands. This paper examines the relationship between place attachment (i.e., place identity and place dependence), attitudes toward paying fees, and visitor preferences for spending fee revenue within the context of social judgment theory. It was hypothesized that both place dependence and place identity wo…
A Modified Involvement Scale
This investigation examines the psychometric properties of a modified involvement scale (MIS) using recreationists sampled at a national forest in upstate South Carolina and consumers enquiring about angling opportunities in the Low Country of South Carolina. Following the testing of several model configurations, support for a conceptualization of enduring involvement was observed consisting of five correlated facets: attraction, centrality, soci…
Comparison of Place Bonding Models in Recreation Resource Management
Conceptual studies of place bonding have often stopped short of verifying the relationship of scales/models to other relevant recreation behavior variables. The current paper addresses this concern by comparing three models (full, parsimonious, and partial models) of place bonding and their scale measurement to a dependent variable, experience use history (EUH), for degree of predictive validity. Results reveal that the full and parsimonious plac…
Predictors of Behavioral Loyalty Among Hikers Along the Appalachian Trail
In recent years, conceptual and empirical papers have begun to appear in the leisure literature examining the processes leading to the formation of recreationist loyalty. While this work is still in its infancy, current understanding suggests that leisure involvement plays a formative role in the development of social psychological commitment, which in turn, is an antecedent to loyalty to a brand or organization. In the context of natural resourc…
An Examination of the Motivation—Involvement Relationship
In this investigation, the relationship between motivation and enduring involvement was explored using a sample of campers drawn from three distinct campsites in a southeastern national forest, USA. The campsites varied along the ROS continuum from developed to wilderness. Using multidimensional conceptualizations of both constructs, a model was tested where the dimensions of motivation were modeled to positively influence the dimensions of endur…
The Effect of Identity Conflict/Facilitation on the Experience of Constraints to Leisure and Constraint Negotiation
Using theory on identity conflict/facilitation, the purpose of our investigation was to explore the role of identity in the experience of constraints to leisure and constraint negotiation. Identity conflict/facilitation suggests that individuals' commitment to various identities influences their perception of constraints to leisure and constraint negotiation processes. Data collected from recreational golfers provided evidence in support of our c…
Gender Identity, Leisure Identity, and Leisure Participation
We adapted identity theory to explore relationships between gender identity, leisure identity, and leisure participation. Based upon the premise of identity theory, we hypothesized that the intensity of participation in recreational golf would be predicted by their gender identity (masculine/feminine) and leisure-related identity of "golfer." Our analyses explored these relationships among men and women golfers. Our data offered partial support f…
Fairness of prices, user fee policy and willingness to pay among visitors to a national forest
Community, family and leisure immersion
This study explores the ambiguous term 'community' and how close groups of people come to form one. By extracting two core elements, often attributed to designations of community, mutual affection and shared appreciation, this study elucidates how fans of the rock band Jerry Joseph & the Jackmormons established close bonds referred to as family through their lengthy and passionate involvement in the leisure outlet of a music scene. Due to extensi…
An Alternate Conceptualization of the Leisure Constraints Measurement Model: Formative Structure
In this paper, we question researchers' assumption that the leisure constraints measurement model holds reflective structure and offer an alternative conceptualization consistent with the structure of constraints indicators. We contend that constraints indicators follow a formative structure and that reflective specifications violate the psychometric assumptions underlying the common factors model. After clarifying conceptual distinctions governi…
An Identity-Based Conceptualization of Recreation Specialization
In this research, identity theory was adapted to reassess a conceptualization of recreation specialization. Past work has conceptualized the construct principally in terms of a combination of three components: conative (behavior, skill, centrality), cognitive (identity) and affect (attraction). Based on the tenets of identity theory, it was hypothesized that the identity-related facet influences other conative and affective specialization facets.…
Understanding the Role of Identity in the Constraint Negotiation Process
Sociological theory related to identity was adapted to explore the influence of identity on respondents’ perceived leisure constraints and constraint negotiation. We hypothesized that perceived constraints to recreational golf and efforts to negotiate constraints would be predicted by the degree to which respondents embraced their leisure-related identity of “golfer.” It was also hypothesized that the perception of constraints and constraint nego…
Commitment to Public Leisure Service Providers: A Conceptual and Psychometric Analysis
In this investigation, we proposed and tested a scale designed to measure recreationists' commitment to public leisure Service providers. We suggested that the identity of public leisure Service providers is embedded in the facilities and settings they manage. Consequently, we feel that it is important to consider recreationists' commitment to public leisure Service providers by examining the meanings they associate with the settings and faciliti…
Reassessing the Structure of Enduring Leisure Involvement
Using data collected from U.S. and Greek respondents, we tested an alternate conceptualization of enduring leisure involvement where identity was considered a key driver of other affective and conative outcomes. Rather than existing on the same temporal plane, as has been the tradition in the leisure literature, we observed that identity was an antecedent of the other involvement facets. Our work provides a theoretical framework ground in microso…
The Meanings Associated with Varying Degrees of Attachment to a Natural Landscape
There has been little research concerning the association between “place meanings” and “place attachment.” An understanding of the association between these constructs is important because they do not stand alone, but rather, complement one another. We documented the meanings ascribed to a national forest in California by five groups of respondents that varied in their mode and attachment intensity to the setting. For example, respondents with hi…
Place Meanings Ascribed to Marine Settings: The Case of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
Using data collected from in-depth interviews of recreational visitors to Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, place-related meanings ascribed to a marine environment are described. The usefulness of using symbolic interactionism to understand the creation of these meanings is also assessed. Ten meaning-themes emerged (aesthetic beauty, lack of built infrastructure/pristine environment, abundance and diversity of coral and other wildlife, …
Positive emotions and passionate leisure involvement
Music is commonly linked to moments of remembrance, joy, celebration and bonding. This paper explores how middle-aged participants in a music scene use the various aspects of their involvement to create and store positive emotions cultivated through music appreciation, friendship building and maintenance, and shared moments of ecstasy and catharsis. Due to the prevalence of significant life events and transitions in this age cohort (relationship,…
The Influence of Home and Community Attachment on Firewise Behavior
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the influence of residents' attachment to their homes and community on their willingness to adopt Firewise recommendations. Our sample was drawn from a population residing in the wildland–urban interface where the threat of wildfire is acute. The Firewise recommendations concerned 13 activities affecting home design, construction and maintenance, landscaping, and community engagement. Consistent wi…
The Social Nature of Leisure Involvement
The involvement construct has been used to explain a variety of leisure-related phenomena. While these efforts have made valuable contributions toward furthering the field's understanding of leisure behavior and involvement in particular, many of these investigations have been limited by the measures used to operationalize the construct. Most research that has incorporated the construct in their investigations has been quantitative and has employ…
The Moderating Role of Place Attachment on the Relationship Between Attitudes Toward Fees and Spending Preferences
The variable, place attachment, has recently been used by investigators to assist in understanding visitor responses to fee programs on public lands. This paper examines the relationship between place attachment (i.e., place identity and place dependence), attitudes toward paying fees, and visitor preferences for spending fee revenue within the context of social judgment theory. It was hypothesized that both place dependence and place identity wo…
An Examination of the Relationship between Leisure Activity Involvement and Place Attachment among Hikers Along the Appalachian Trail
The place attachment construct has been used by leisure researchers and practitioners to refine our understanding of certain leisure behaviors for over two decades. Despite the construct's importance to natural resource-based leisure, little empirical work has appeared in the leisure literature examining the construct's antecedent processes; that is, the processes that lead to recreationists'; attachment to settings. This study examined one antec…
Effects of place attachment on users’ perceptions of social and environmental conditions in a natural setting
Linking place preferences with place meaning: An examination of the relationship between place motivation and place attachment
Enduring leisure involvement: The importance of personal relationships
In this investigation we sought to explore the properties of enduring leisure involvement from the perspective of campers attending an agricultural encampment and fair in the United States. Using informants' narratives of their experiences, we sought to address the research question: ‘what elements of informants' experience of the fair have sustained their involvement with it throughout their lives?’ It was revealed that informants' experiences a…
An Examination of Recreationists' Relationships with Activities and Settings
The place attachment construct has demonstrated utility for explaining a variety of leisure behavior in outdoor recreation contexts. Preliminary evidence suggests that recreationists' involvement with leisure activities is an antecedent to their attachment to specific settings. Multidimensional measures of these constructs, however, indicate that linear interpretations of their relations may be misleading. Given that both involvement and place at…
Predictors of Behavioral Loyalty Among Hikers Along the Appalachian Trail
In recent years, conceptual and empirical papers have begun to appear in the leisure literature examining the processes leading to the formation of recreationist loyalty. While this work is still in its infancy, current understanding suggests that leisure involvement plays a formative role in the development of social psychological commitment, which in turn, is an antecedent to loyalty to a brand or organization. In the context of natural resourc…
Effect of Activity Involvement and Place Attachment on Recreationists' Perceptions of Setting Density
Research examining recreationists' perceptions of setting density in outdoor recreation contexts has illustrated the influence of a number of factors. In this investigation we examined the effect of activity involvement and place attachment on hikers' perceptions of setting density using frameworks offered by social judgment and cognitive development theories. We hypothesized that respondents' perceptions of setting density would involve cognitiv…
Testing the Dimensionality of Place Attachment in Recreational Settings
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the psychometric properties of a place-attachment scale using data collected from visitors to the Appalachian Trail in the United States. These data supported a correlated three-factor model consisting of place identity, place dependence, and social bonding. Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis was used to cross-validate the model using two sub-samples of the data. Latent factor means were also …
An Examination of the Leisure Involvement—Agency Commitment Relationship
Building from the existing literature, we tested a model suggesting that leisure involvement is an antecedent of commitment to a public leisure service provider (N = 860). Leisure involvement was conceptualized as a multidimensional construct consisting of attraction, centrality, and self-expression. Agency commitment was also conceptualized as multidimensional construct consisting of five components; place identity, place dependence, affective a…
An Examination of the Motivation—Involvement Relationship
In this investigation, the relationship between motivation and enduring involvement was explored using a sample of campers drawn from three distinct campsites in a southeastern national forest, USA. The campsites varied along the ROS continuum from developed to wilderness. Using multidimensional conceptualizations of both constructs, a model was tested where the dimensions of motivation were modeled to positively influence the dimensions of endur…
Commitment to Public Leisure Service Providers: A Conceptual and Psychometric Analysis
In this investigation, we proposed and tested a scale designed to measure recreationists' commitment to public leisure Service providers. We suggested that the identity of public leisure Service providers is embedded in the facilities and settings they manage. Consequently, we feel that it is important to consider recreationists' commitment to public leisure Service providers by examining the meanings they associate with the settings and faciliti…
Segmenting Anglers Using Their Consumptive Orientation Profiles
We examined the practical utility of segmenting visitors to a popular southeastern angling destination using their consumptive orientation profiles. Our analysis identified four segments that varied in terms of their consumptive orientation: Lots ‘o Fish who were most concerned about catching many fish; Bigguns who expressed the strongest preference for catching big fish; Nothin’ who indicated that catching no fish was okay; and Keepers who expre…
A Modified Involvement Scale
This investigation examines the psychometric properties of a modified involvement scale (MIS) using recreationists sampled at a national forest in upstate South Carolina and consumers enquiring about angling opportunities in the Low Country of South Carolina. Following the testing of several model configurations, support for a conceptualization of enduring involvement was observed consisting of five correlated facets: attraction, centrality, soci…
The Social Construction of a Sense of Place
The purpose of this investigation was to explore the meanings recreationists tenting at an agricultural fair associated with the settings in which their fair experience occurred. Using a symbolic interactionist framework, our analysis of data collected through onsite observation and using photo-elicitation guided interviews illustrated that informants' place meanings were the product of interactive processes involving the individual, their social…
Comparison of Place Bonding Models in Recreation Resource Management
Conceptual studies of place bonding have often stopped short of verifying the relationship of scales/models to other relevant recreation behavior variables. The current paper addresses this concern by comparing three models (full, parsimonious, and partial models) of place bonding and their scale measurement to a dependent variable, experience use history (EUH), for degree of predictive validity. Results reveal that the full and parsimonious plac…
The Influence of Home and Community Attachment on Firewise Behavior
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the influence of residents' attachment to their homes and community on their willingness to adopt Firewise recommendations. Our sample was drawn from a population residing in the wildland–urban interface where the threat of wildfire is acute. The Firewise recommendations concerned 13 activities affecting home design, construction and maintenance, landscaping, and community engagement. Consistent wi…
Place Meanings Ascribed to Marine Settings: The Case of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
Using data collected from in-depth interviews of recreational visitors to Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, place-related meanings ascribed to a marine environment are described. The usefulness of using symbolic interactionism to understand the creation of these meanings is also assessed. Ten meaning-themes emerged (aesthetic beauty, lack of built infrastructure/pristine environment, abundance and diversity of coral and other wildlife, …
Fairness of prices, user fee policy and willingness to pay among visitors to a national forest
Understanding the Role of Identity in the Constraint Negotiation Process
Sociological theory related to identity was adapted to explore the influence of identity on respondents’ perceived leisure constraints and constraint negotiation. We hypothesized that perceived constraints to recreational golf and efforts to negotiate constraints would be predicted by the degree to which respondents embraced their leisure-related identity of “golfer.” It was also hypothesized that the perception of constraints and constraint nego…
Educational Travel and Global Citizenship
We examined whether participation (n = 623 students) in educational travel programs influenced support for environmental policies across different citizen types (justice-oriented, participatory, personally responsible, and non-citizen). Findings showed that (1) participation increased support for environmental policies across all groups, (2) justice-oriented citizens reported the highest support, while non-citizens demonstrated the lowest support…
The Effect of Identity Conflict/Facilitation on the Experience of Constraints to Leisure and Constraint Negotiation
Using theory on identity conflict/facilitation, the purpose of our investigation was to explore the role of identity in the experience of constraints to leisure and constraint negotiation. Identity conflict/facilitation suggests that individuals' commitment to various identities influences their perception of constraints to leisure and constraint negotiation processes. Data collected from recreational golfers provided evidence in support of our c…
The Meanings Associated with Varying Degrees of Attachment to a Natural Landscape
There has been little research concerning the association between “place meanings” and “place attachment.” An understanding of the association between these constructs is important because they do not stand alone, but rather, complement one another. We documented the meanings ascribed to a national forest in California by five groups of respondents that varied in their mode and attachment intensity to the setting. For example, respondents with hi…
The Mediating Effect of Place Attachment on the Relationship between Festival Satisfaction and Loyalty to the Festival Hosting Destination
The purpose of this study was to explore the factors that drive festival visitor loyalty to host destinations. Our analysis focused on the role of place attachment as a mediator of the relationship between visitors’ positive evaluation of their festival experience and their loyalty to the host destination. Using structural equation modeling, we found that satisfied visitors at a festival develop a moderate level of emotional attachment to the fes…
Psychology (47 works) · Social Psychology (43 works) · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management (39 works) · Social Psychology (33 works) · Sociology (27 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (26 works) · Ecology (21 works) · Geography (21 works) · Recreation (19 works) · Political science (18 works)