Search results for " motivations"

The role of travel motivations and social media use in consumer interactive behaviour: a uses and gratifications perspective

2020

This paper explores the influence of travel motivations and the gratification provided by social media in consumer stickiness to social media, intention to create user-generated content, and electronic word of mouth (eWOM) review adoption. The study follows a mixed-methods approach. First, a concept mapping study was undertaken to identify the main travel motivations and the gratifications provided by social media when consumers search for information on tourism destinations. A second study using structural equation modelling and SmartPLS 3.2.7 with a sample of 401 heavy users of social media showed the relationships between individual travel motivations and gratifications provided by socia…

“You look at it, but will you choose it”: Is there a link between the foods consumers look at and what they ultimately choose in a virtual supermarke…

2022

Most of the studies that showed a link between gaze allocation and consumer's food choices were performed on food products belonging to a same category. However, consumers usually make food choices in more complex environments, between many different products, and different factors can influence their choices. Therefore, our study aimed to understand the link between gaze behavior and food choices in a complex and realistic situation of choice. Participants (n=99) performed a food choice task in a virtual supermarket. They had to choose three food products to create a dish in four scenarios evoking different motivations (focus on health, environment, food pleasure, and daily scenario as con…

INDUSTRIALIZATION: AN ITINERARY RUINED BY EXTRAECONOMIC FACTORS. CASE STUDY: THE ROMANIAN ECONOMY

2012

How did the evolution of Romanian industry develop in the years after 1944 and until 1989? How about afterwards, during the transition from a socialist economy of Eastern European type to a generically defined market economy, when it failed to achieve socially desirable results, namely during the period 1990-2010? What was the actual content of the process, what was intended and what was actually achieved? In 20 years, how did the extra-economic factors influence - especially the political and social ones - a process, namely the industrialization, which had proved an undoubtedly positive experience around the world? These are the questions this paper aims to answer by examining the effects …

Motivations and domain specificity in intercultural adaptation : bloggers' experiences in their new host countries

2014

The current qualitative study investigates immigrant’s intrinsic (internal) and extrinsic (external) motivations and how they surface in the intercultural adaption process. Additionally, it aims to answer whether immigrant’s adaptation orientations differ between private and public (life) domains by testing Boski’s (2008) IAFS model [the model of integration as functional(partial) specialization]. It is a fairly recent model of adaptation and only few prior studies have utilized it. The study concentrates on voluntary migrants, individuals, who have made a personal choice to leave their homelands. In the current study naturally occurring data in a form of weblogs were utilized as research d…

INFLUENCIA DE LAS MOTIVACIONES EN LA DECISIÓN DE COMPRA Y EN LA LEALTAD HACIA INTERNET /

2006

Dada la importancia que está adquiriendo Internet como método complementario a la venta en los establecimientos comerciales tradicionales, se hace necesario conocer qué motivos llevan a su aceptación y uso como canal de compra por parte de los consumidores. Por este motivo, el presente trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar las principales motivaciones hacia la compra en Internet y su incidencia en la decisión de compra y en las intenciones futuras de comportamiento hacia el sistema. Los resultados obtenidos permiten concluir que la comodidad es el principal motivo de uso del medio Internet como canal de compra y que las distintas motivaciones utilitaristas analizadas influyen tanto en el vol…

Study by Factor Analysis of motivations for tourists to travel along Sicilian Wine Routes and visiting cellar doors

2008

The hidden side of the Ultimatum Game: The role of motivations and mind-reading in a two-level one-shot Ultimatum Game

2015

The main aim of our study is to investigate the role of motivations and mind-reading in a two-level one-shot Ultimatum Game with three players. Our intention is to analyse subjects’ behaviour in both the responder and proposer roles. In the responder role, we found that the difference between the subjects’ expectations and the actual offers was the major factor that influenced their decisions and motivations in receiving money. In the proposer role, our results showed a significant influence of mind-reading, with a positive association between the fairness of subjects’ offers and the subjects’ expectations about the recipients’ willingness to accept. Although a shared concept of fairness ex…

Motivation and personality traits for choosing religious tourism. A research on the case of Medjugorje

2013

Religion has long been a primary motivation for journeys and it is considered the oldest non-economic reason for travelling. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the reasons tourists choose to travel to sacred sites, with the specific aim of discovering relationships between personality traits and motivations for religious travel. Participating in the research were 679 Italian travellers to Medjugorje sanctuary, who completed the travel motivation scale and big five questionnaire. The results show that motivation is focused prevalently on the need for discovery in men and socialisation in women. Multiple regression analyses demonstrated that personality traits are predictive of motiv…

Mobilità del turismo regionale incoming. Aspetti socio-economici dei comportamenti e delle motivazioni (volume a stampa).

2013

Have Fun with Math and Music!

2019

If abstraction makes mathematics strong, it often makes it also hard to learn, if not discouraging. If math pedagogy suffers from the lack of engaging strategies, the pedagogy of mathematical music theory must deal with the additional difficulty of double fields and double vocabulary. However, games and interdisciplinary references in a STEAM framework can help the learner break down complex concepts into essential ideas, and gain interest and motivation to approach advanced topics. Here we present some general considerations, followed by two examples which may be applied in a high-school or early college level course. The first is a musical application of a Rubik’s cube, the CubeHarmonic, …