From Fear of Death to Travel Intention: Do Residential Tourism Clusters Matter?

IF 5.7 3区管理学 Q1 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

International Journal of Tourism Research Pub Date : 2026-03-07 DOI:10.1002/jtr.70243

Ji Youn Jeong, Jinwon Kim, Hye Suk Han, Wonji Chung

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Abstract

This study integrates Terror Management Theory with the Social Ecological Model to explain how mortality awareness (MA) shapes travel intention through two pathways: an adaptive meaning-making route and a maladaptive strain-based route. Using a survey experiment with US adults and hierarchical regression, structural equation modeling, and multi-group analysis, we show that MA increases travel intention by strengthening worldview affirmation and self-transcendence, whereas maladaptive coping suppresses intention. These effects are context-dependent. Residential tourism clusters—operationalized using the Location Quotient (LQ₇) index—moderate the translation of psychological motives into behavioral intention. Transcendence has a stronger positive effect in highly clustered areas, adaptive coping is more influential in low-cluster contexts, and maladaptive coping is more deterrent in high-cluster environments. By embedding existential motivation within spatial context, this study extends Terror Management Theory and identifies transcendence as a key mechanism of travel behavior.

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从死亡恐惧到旅游意向：住宅旅游集群重要吗？

本研究将恐惧管理理论与社会生态模型相结合，解释了死亡意识如何通过两种途径塑造出行意愿：一种是适应性意义制造途径，另一种是非适应性应变途径。通过对美国成年人的调查实验、层次回归、结构方程模型和多群体分析，我们发现MA通过强化世界观肯定和自我超越来增加旅游意愿，而适应不良的应对则抑制旅游意愿。这些影响是依赖于上下文的。利用区位商（LQ7）指数进行操作的住宅旅游集群调节了心理动机向行为意向的转化。在高集群环境中，超越具有更强的正向作用，在低集群环境中，适应性应对具有更强的正向作用，而在高集群环境中，不适应应对具有更强的威慑作用。通过将存在主义动机嵌入空间语境，本研究扩展了恐怖管理理论，并确定超越是旅行行为的关键机制。

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International Journal of Tourism Research HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-

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9.00

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4.30%

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期刊介绍： International Journal of Tourism Research promotes and enhances research developments in the field of tourism. The journal provides an international platform for debate and dissemination of research findings whilst also facilitating the discussion of new research areas and techniques. IJTR continues to add a vibrant and exciting channel for those interested in tourism and hospitality research developments. The scope of the journal is international and welcomes research that makes original contributions to theories and methodologies. It continues to publish high quality research papers in any area of tourism, including empirical papers on tourism issues. The journal welcomes submissions based upon both primary research and reviews including papers in areas that may not directly be tourism based but concern a topic that is of interest to researchers in the field of tourism, such as economics, marketing, sociology and statistics. All papers are subject to strict double-blind (or triple-blind) peer review by the international research community.