Astrid Kemperman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4416622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Astrid Kemperman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Astrid |
| FAMILY NAME | Kemperman |
| SIGNATURE | KEMPERMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eindhoven University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1312-4913 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Pathways linking the built environment and loneliness
It is increasingly recognised that the built environment influences the experience of loneliness, but the pathways linking them built environment and loneliness are not sufficiently understood. Addressing this gap is crucial for developing inclusive policies and guiding the planning and design of built environment interventions aimed at reducing loneliness. This scoping review and conceptual synthesis aimed to advance understanding of these pathw…
Investigating preferences for soil desealing
Does telecommuting promote active travel? New evidence from the Netherlands
Telecommuting has been proposed as a strategy to promote sustainable mobility, yet its impact on active travel remains unclear, particularly when considering socio-demographics and telecommuting-related behavioral changes. To address this gap, this study investigates the relationships between telecommuting frequency, telecommuting-related behavioral changes, and the frequency of walking, conventional bike use and e-bike use in the Netherlands. Us…
The value of unsustainable hotel services to guests
Hotels routinely provide room services beyond their core accommodation functions. Their value to guests remains uncertain. Some hotel services are environmentally unsustainable but not essential to the core function of accommodation. This study uses a discrete choice experiment (n = 785) to determine how important such services are to tourists. We classify hotel services into essential but environmentally unsustainable (air conditioning control),…
Active travel and the built environment
Active travel has many health, environmental, economic, and social benefits, yet it is not clear how life events and factors from the built environment influence active travel over time. To address this gap and provide causal and dynamic evidence, this study used a 5-year longitudinal dataset from the Netherlands Mobility Panel and applied a Dynamic Bayesian Network approach to explore the temporal relationships between life events, built environ…
Social contact, social cohesion, and social safety outcomes of children's school travel
Much research on children's (school) travel focuses on explaining travel mode choice and how that relates to physical activity gained through active travel. However, another key component of children's lives and their travel relates to the social outcomes of travel such as social contact, social cohesion, and social safety. Children's independent and active travel has been shown to be positively related to social contacts with friends and neighbo…
Public space and loneliness in young adults in the Netherlands
As levels of loneliness in young adults are increasing, it is important to design loneliness reducing interventions for this age group. In this study, we specifically focus on built environment interventions that could alleviate young adults' momentary feelings of emotional loneliness. We used an online survey incorporating a stated preference experiment with virtual public spaces in which seven attributes (presence of people, grass, water, bench…
Older adults' out-of-home activity location choice and associations with loneliness
Preventing loneliness is vital to maintaining mental health. However, feelings of loneliness are increasing among people around the world. Planning and designing built environments that are inviting and support out-of-home activities increases an active lifestyle, thereby reducing feelings of loneliness. However, the role of the built environment and out-of-home activities as potential areas of intervention still require deeper understanding. Thi…
Non-linear associations between the built environment and outdoor activity duration
Outdoor activities benefit human physical and mental health. However, how the built environment influences the duration of location-based outdoor activities is unclear. To address this gap, we measured the built environment using different methods including Geographic Information Systems and a semantic segmentation technique with Google Street View images and associated these independent variables with outdoor activity duration by employing a gra…
Social impacts of living in high-rise apartment buildings
Social networks, social cohesion, and place attachment are positive social impacts that can stimulate people’s quality of life. High-rise apartment buildings are often criticized for their negative social impacts, such as social isolation and low levels of interaction and social cohesion. However, there is still insufficient empirical evidence on the relationships between neighborhood social networks, social cohesion, place attachment, and loneli…
Interactive Playgrounds and Children’s Outdoor Play Behavior
This paper provides an in-depth understanding of children’s perspectives toward playing on three interactive playgrounds located in a schoolyard in Enschede, a city located in the eastern part of the Netherlands, in the Twente region. The COM-B model of behavior change is used to explore children’s perspectives. This model defines behavior as the result of an interaction between three components that generate behavior: Capability, Opportunity, an…
Collective self-build for senior friendly communities. Studying the effects on social cohesion, social satisfaction and loneliness
Neighbourhood social cohesion is important for the health and well-being of the ageing population. It is therefore crucial to study how we can create neighbourhoods with high levels of neighbourhood social cohesion where senior citizens can age in place. We test the hypotheses that collective self-build is positively related to social cohesion and (directly and indirectly) to social satisfaction and lower levels of loneliness. The study is based …
Socio-demographics, neighborhood characteristics, time use, and leisure-time physical activity engagement patterns over the life course
Physical inactivity remains a major public health challenge today. Understanding the determinants of changes in habitual leisure-time physical activity patterns by type across the life course is important for developing targeted interventions. This study presents a multiple discrete-continuous extreme value model to examine the determinants of habitual participation in and time allocation to multiple leisure-time physical activities over the life…
Application of the COM-B model to the correlates of children’s outdoor playing and the potential role of digital interventions
Children’s reduced engagement in outdoor playing in recent years has contributed to increasing academic and practice interests in understanding this behavior, as well as investigating the effectiveness of combined social, physical and digital interventions on stimulating children’s outdoor playing. This paper provides a systematic review of recent empirical evidence on the correlates of the outdoor playing behavior of children, ages 4–12. In addi…
Influence of Neighborhood Characteristics on Physical Activity, Health, and Quality of Life of Older Adults
Background: As life expectancy and health expenditure consumed by older people increase, maintaining a better health and quality of life for older adults has become an important social issue. Research indicates that physical activity may help address this challenge. Moreover, it is believed that improved quality of life and health benefits from physical activity can be achieved through interventions in the neighborhood environments. However, exis…
A review of research into discrete choice experiments in tourism
This article presents a systematic review of all 49 papers published in the top five tourism journals between 2010 and 2020 on discrete choice experiments in tourism research. Discrete choice experiments are used for measuring and predicting individuals' preferences and choices of alternatives and provide quantitative measures of the relative importance of attributes of tourism destinations, products, or services and might include tourists' willi…
Heterogeneity in physical activity participation of older adults
Participation in leisure and transport-related physical activities is generally viewed as the main means of increasing overall physical activity levels of older adults. The success of any intervention strategy depends on how well the strategy fits older people's physical activity patterns. This study therefore examines heterogeneity in physical activity patterns of older adults and the relationships between these patterns and socio-demographic an…
Which types of product attributes lead to aviation voluntary carbon offsetting among air passengers
Tourism contributes 8% to global carbon emissions. Yet, only 10% of air passengers purchase voluntary carbon offsets. We test the effectiveness of different communication messages to increase voluntary purchasing of carbon offsets by air passengers. Results of a discrete choice experiment indicate that air passengers prefer carbon offset schemes that fund local programs (as opposed to international programs), that are effective in mitigating emis…
Location Choice in the Context of Older Adults’ Leisure-Time Walking
Leisure-time walking is the most prevalent and preferred form of physical activity of older adults. In order to promote leisure-time walking and enhance the efficiency of using outdoor open spaces, the supply of different types of walking locations should match the needs, interests and preferences of older adults. However, there is limited knowledge on which location types are chosen by which groups of individuals under which conditions. This stu…
Where do People Interact in High-Rise Apartment Buildings? Exploring the Influence of Personal and Neighborhood Characteristics
Early studies conclude that high-rise apartment buildings present challenges for people's quality of life, resulting in social isolation, social annoyance and anonymity for residents. Nevertheless, empirical research into factors supporting social interaction in high-rise apartment buildings is still scarce. This study aims to investigate how often and where people in high-rise neighborhoods interact, and how this is affected by personal and neig…
Loneliness of Older Adults
The social participation and integration of older adults are important aspects of healthy aging. However, in general, older adults have smaller social networks than their younger counterparts due to changes in their life cycle stage, such as retirement or age-related losses, along with a declining health and increasing mobility limitations. Consequently, with increasing age, an increasing proportion of older people experience feelings of loneline…
Loneliness and Life Satisfaction Explained by Public-Space Use and Mobility Patterns
Previous research has shown that personal, neighborhood, and mobility characteristics could influence life satisfaction and loneliness of people and that exposure to public spaces, such as green spaces, may also affect the extent to which people feel lonely or satisfied with life. However, previous studies mainly focused on one of these effects, resulting in a lack of knowledge about the simultaneous effects of these characteristics on loneliness…
Making cause-related corporate social responsibility (CSR) count in holiday accommodation choice
May I sleep in your bed? Getting permission to book
Locations that Support Social Activity Participation of the Aging Population
Social activities are an important aspect of health and quality of life of the aging population. They are key elements in the prevention of loneliness. In order to create living environments that stimulate older adults to engage in social activities, more insight is needed in the social activity patterns of the aging population. This study therefore analyzes the heterogeneity in older adults' preferences for different social activity location typ…
Factors influencing social satisfaction and loneliness
May I sleep in your bed? Getting permission to book
Vacation length choice
Heterogeneity in Urban Park Use of Aging Visitors
This study describes and predicts urban parks use patterns for various age groups, with specific attention to the growing group of older adults. Park use intensity of various age groups is described. Subsequently, a multinomial logit model is estimated to describe urban park choice as a function of park features, activities, and socio-demographics. To identify segments in park use patterns of aging visitors a latent class model is estimated. Data…
Making cause-related corporate social responsibility (CSR) count in holiday accommodation choice
Influence of Socio-Demographics and Residential Environment on Leisure Activity Participation
Participating in leisure activities provides important benefits for all people. However, there is a substantial reduction of (green) leisure opportunities in cities, and the green spaces that are available often are poorly accessible. The purpose of this study is to analyze the diversity of participation in various types of leisure activities and to determine the relationship between leisure activity participation and characteristics of the resid…
The influence of low-fare airlines on vacation choices of students
Consumer Choice of Theme Parks
Most existing mathematical models of tourist choice behavior assume that individuals' preferences for choice alternatives remain invariant over time. Although the assumption of invariant preference functions may be reasonable in some choice contexts, this study examines the hypothesis that theme-park choice is partly influenced by variety-seeking and seasonality effects. A conjoint choice model is developed to estimate these effects. The proposed…
Heterogeneity in physical activity participation of older adults
Participation in leisure and transport-related physical activities is generally viewed as the main means of increasing overall physical activity levels of older adults. The success of any intervention strategy depends on how well the strategy fits older people's physical activity patterns. This study therefore examines heterogeneity in physical activity patterns of older adults and the relationships between these patterns and socio-demographic an…
Which types of product attributes lead to aviation voluntary carbon offsetting among air passengers
Tourism contributes 8% to global carbon emissions. Yet, only 10% of air passengers purchase voluntary carbon offsets. We test the effectiveness of different communication messages to increase voluntary purchasing of carbon offsets by air passengers. Results of a discrete choice experiment indicate that air passengers prefer carbon offset schemes that fund local programs (as opposed to international programs), that are effective in mitigating emis…
Beyond demographics
Tourist shopping behavior in a historic downtown area
Social impacts of living in high-rise apartment buildings
Social networks, social cohesion, and place attachment are positive social impacts that can stimulate people’s quality of life. High-rise apartment buildings are often criticized for their negative social impacts, such as social isolation and low levels of interaction and social cohesion. However, there is still insufficient empirical evidence on the relationships between neighborhood social networks, social cohesion, place attachment, and loneli…
Social Interaction Location Choice
Social contacts are an important aspect of an individual's quality of life. Social contacts take place at a certain time and location: Geography matters, for instance, at home or a work location or at different types of (local) facilities such as schools, shops, sports, and catering facilities. For urban planners, it is essential to know which locations provide opportunities for social interaction. As this knowledge is currently largely lacking, …
Active travel and the built environment
Active travel has many health, environmental, economic, and social benefits, yet it is not clear how life events and factors from the built environment influence active travel over time. To address this gap and provide causal and dynamic evidence, this study used a 5-year longitudinal dataset from the Netherlands Mobility Panel and applied a Dynamic Bayesian Network approach to explore the temporal relationships between life events, built environ…
Consumer Choice of Theme Parks
Most existing mathematical models of tourist choice behavior assume that individuals' preferences for choice alternatives remain invariant over time. Although the assumption of invariant preference functions may be reasonable in some choice contexts, this study examines the hypothesis that theme-park choice is partly influenced by variety-seeking and seasonality effects. A conjoint choice model is developed to estimate these effects. The proposed…
Heterogeneity in Urban Park Use of Aging Visitors
This study describes and predicts urban parks use patterns for various age groups, with specific attention to the growing group of older adults. Park use intensity of various age groups is described. Subsequently, a multinomial logit model is estimated to describe urban park choice as a function of park features, activities, and socio-demographics. To identify segments in park use patterns of aging visitors a latent class model is estimated. Data…
Influence of Socio-Demographics and Residential Environment on Leisure Activity Participation
Participating in leisure activities provides important benefits for all people. However, there is a substantial reduction of (green) leisure opportunities in cities, and the green spaces that are available often are poorly accessible. The purpose of this study is to analyze the diversity of participation in various types of leisure activities and to determine the relationship between leisure activity participation and characteristics of the resid…
Tourist shopping behavior in a historic downtown area
Children's Recreational Physical Activity
This study explored children's participation in recreational (physical) activities and the extent to which this participation was influenced by individual and household socio-demographics and characteristics of the social and physical environment. Travel and activity diaries were used to collect data on out-of-home recreational activities for a random sample of 4,293 children in primary schools in the Netherlands. These data were investigated in …
The influence of low-fare airlines on vacation choices of students
Green spaces in the direct living environment and social contacts of the aging population
Beyond demographics
Vacation length choice
Social Interaction Location Choice
Social contacts are an important aspect of an individual's quality of life. Social contacts take place at a certain time and location: Geography matters, for instance, at home or a work location or at different types of (local) facilities such as schools, shops, sports, and catering facilities. For urban planners, it is essential to know which locations provide opportunities for social interaction. As this knowledge is currently largely lacking, …
Locations that Support Social Activity Participation of the Aging Population
Social activities are an important aspect of health and quality of life of the aging population. They are key elements in the prevention of loneliness. In order to create living environments that stimulate older adults to engage in social activities, more insight is needed in the social activity patterns of the aging population. This study therefore analyzes the heterogeneity in older adults' preferences for different social activity location typ…
Factors influencing social satisfaction and loneliness
May I sleep in your bed? Getting permission to book
Loneliness of Older Adults
The social participation and integration of older adults are important aspects of healthy aging. However, in general, older adults have smaller social networks than their younger counterparts due to changes in their life cycle stage, such as retirement or age-related losses, along with a declining health and increasing mobility limitations. Consequently, with increasing age, an increasing proportion of older people experience feelings of loneline…
Loneliness and Life Satisfaction Explained by Public-Space Use and Mobility Patterns
Previous research has shown that personal, neighborhood, and mobility characteristics could influence life satisfaction and loneliness of people and that exposure to public spaces, such as green spaces, may also affect the extent to which people feel lonely or satisfied with life. However, previous studies mainly focused on one of these effects, resulting in a lack of knowledge about the simultaneous effects of these characteristics on loneliness…
Making cause-related corporate social responsibility (CSR) count in holiday accommodation choice
Location Choice in the Context of Older Adults’ Leisure-Time Walking
Leisure-time walking is the most prevalent and preferred form of physical activity of older adults. In order to promote leisure-time walking and enhance the efficiency of using outdoor open spaces, the supply of different types of walking locations should match the needs, interests and preferences of older adults. However, there is limited knowledge on which location types are chosen by which groups of individuals under which conditions. This stu…
Where do People Interact in High-Rise Apartment Buildings? Exploring the Influence of Personal and Neighborhood Characteristics
Early studies conclude that high-rise apartment buildings present challenges for people's quality of life, resulting in social isolation, social annoyance and anonymity for residents. Nevertheless, empirical research into factors supporting social interaction in high-rise apartment buildings is still scarce. This study aims to investigate how often and where people in high-rise neighborhoods interact, and how this is affected by personal and neig…
Influence of Neighborhood Characteristics on Physical Activity, Health, and Quality of Life of Older Adults
Background: As life expectancy and health expenditure consumed by older people increase, maintaining a better health and quality of life for older adults has become an important social issue. Research indicates that physical activity may help address this challenge. Moreover, it is believed that improved quality of life and health benefits from physical activity can be achieved through interventions in the neighborhood environments. However, exis…
A review of research into discrete choice experiments in tourism
This article presents a systematic review of all 49 papers published in the top five tourism journals between 2010 and 2020 on discrete choice experiments in tourism research. Discrete choice experiments are used for measuring and predicting individuals' preferences and choices of alternatives and provide quantitative measures of the relative importance of attributes of tourism destinations, products, or services and might include tourists' willi…
Heterogeneity in physical activity participation of older adults
Participation in leisure and transport-related physical activities is generally viewed as the main means of increasing overall physical activity levels of older adults. The success of any intervention strategy depends on how well the strategy fits older people's physical activity patterns. This study therefore examines heterogeneity in physical activity patterns of older adults and the relationships between these patterns and socio-demographic an…
Which types of product attributes lead to aviation voluntary carbon offsetting among air passengers
Tourism contributes 8% to global carbon emissions. Yet, only 10% of air passengers purchase voluntary carbon offsets. We test the effectiveness of different communication messages to increase voluntary purchasing of carbon offsets by air passengers. Results of a discrete choice experiment indicate that air passengers prefer carbon offset schemes that fund local programs (as opposed to international programs), that are effective in mitigating emis…
Socio-demographics, neighborhood characteristics, time use, and leisure-time physical activity engagement patterns over the life course
Physical inactivity remains a major public health challenge today. Understanding the determinants of changes in habitual leisure-time physical activity patterns by type across the life course is important for developing targeted interventions. This study presents a multiple discrete-continuous extreme value model to examine the determinants of habitual participation in and time allocation to multiple leisure-time physical activities over the life…
Application of the COM-B model to the correlates of children’s outdoor playing and the potential role of digital interventions
Children’s reduced engagement in outdoor playing in recent years has contributed to increasing academic and practice interests in understanding this behavior, as well as investigating the effectiveness of combined social, physical and digital interventions on stimulating children’s outdoor playing. This paper provides a systematic review of recent empirical evidence on the correlates of the outdoor playing behavior of children, ages 4–12. In addi…
Interactive Playgrounds and Children’s Outdoor Play Behavior
This paper provides an in-depth understanding of children’s perspectives toward playing on three interactive playgrounds located in a schoolyard in Enschede, a city located in the eastern part of the Netherlands, in the Twente region. The COM-B model of behavior change is used to explore children’s perspectives. This model defines behavior as the result of an interaction between three components that generate behavior: Capability, Opportunity, an…
Psychology (23 works) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (19 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Geography (14 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Urban Green Space and Health (11 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Business (8 works)