New Insights about the Influence of Psychographic Characteristics in the Context of Leisure, Outdoor Recreation, Tourism and Public Health
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 8379
Special Issue Editor
Interests: consumer behaviour; coastal tourism; coastal cultural ecosystem services; cultural heritage; tourism marketing; place marketing; experiential marketing; therapeutic landscapes; customer/tourism experience journey
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
During the multi-dimensional human-nature interactions and relationships, individuals capture non-material and intangible benefits—Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES), such as cultural heritage, place identity, spiritual enrichment, cognitive development and learning, or even therapeutic and well-being effects.
The fruition of CES often occurs within the experience journey in several contexts, such as Leisure, Outdoor Recreation, Nature-Based Tourism, Eco-Tourism, Dark Tourism, Hiking, Pilgrimage, Health and Well-being, Indoor/Outdoor Sport Activities or even during consumption situations in street retailing or restaurants. In all these experiencescapes, individuals process information, feel emotions and make decisions under the moderating influence of several individual variables.
This issue of IJERPH focuses on research about the role of the psychographic characteristics of individuals and other type of motivators/inhibitors of the engagement/avoidance in human-nature interactions and consumption behaviours. This may include a description of new challenges, approaches, constructs or measurement instruments, aiming to identify the heterogeneity of individuals and support the segmentation process. Furthermore, since 2000, when the philosopher Glenn Albrecht coined the term “psychoterratica”, (https://glennaalbrecht.com/), in several areas of our society, there is an increasing trend to discuss the relationship between physical/mental health, environment and human lifestyles.
In this special issue, we invite researchers in Cultural Ecosystem Services, Tourism, Leisure, Outdoor Recreation; Marketing, Consumer Behaviour, Social Psychology, Environmental Psychology, Public Health, Psychology of Sport and Exercise, Social/Preventive Medicine; Landscape Sciences, and other social sciences to submit high quality empirical papers, systematic reviews or meta-analysis regarding the research topics listed in the keywords section.
Dr. António Azevedo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- personality traits
- self-congruence
- values systems
- life-styles
- hedonism
- motivations and needs
- susceptibility of interpersonal influence
- risk recreation
- sensation seeking
- flow
- risk avoidance
- self-development
- self-achievement
- need for emotion
- need for cognition
- impulsiveness and compulsiveness
- voyeurism
- death desire
- ecological consciousness
- cosmopolitanism
- socialization
- seek for loneliness
- body image dissatisfaction
- stress and anxiety
- social phobias
- place attachment
- ethnocentrism
- voluntary simplicity
- drinking & driving
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