An existential psychological perspective on Chinese career gap travel

IF 3.3 4区管理学 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Tourist Studies Pub Date : 2020-09-23 DOI:10.1177/1468797620959050

Xiaolian Chen, B. Mak, Yan-jun Feng

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Abstract

This study examined travellers’ reflections of meaning in career gap travel experiences, through an existential psychology lens. Specifically, it investigated how career gap travellers conferred and fundamentally shifted meaning in their lives. Eleven career gap travellers’ reflections were interpreted through existential-narrative analysis. The study contributed to current knowledge by developing a career gap travel cycle including stages before, during and after the trip. The findings showed that career crises and existential anxiety for something more meaningful were the antecedents of career gap travel in the pre-trip stage. The trip itself comprised two stages: the early days of travel were depicted as pleasurable; however, long-term travel also involved existential challenges, such as anxiety and fear. The post-trip stage involved post-trip liminality and travel syndrome related to fear of failure and anxiety. The article concludes with a discussion of future research areas for career gap travel.

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中国职业空当旅行的存在主义心理学视角

这项研究通过存在主义心理学的视角，考察了旅行者在职业空档旅行经历中对意义的反映。具体而言，它调查了职业差距旅行者如何赋予他们生活意义并从根本上改变他们的生活意义。通过存在主义叙事分析，解读了11位职业空档旅行者的反思。这项研究通过制定一个职业空档旅行周期，包括旅行前、旅行中和旅行后的阶段，为当前的知识做出了贡献。研究结果表明，在旅行前阶段，职业危机和对更有意义的事情的生存焦虑是职业间隙旅行的前因。旅行本身包括两个阶段：旅行的早期被描述为愉快的；然而，长期旅行也涉及生存挑战，如焦虑和恐惧。旅行后阶段涉及旅行后极限和与对失败和焦虑的恐惧有关的旅行综合征。文章最后讨论了职业空档旅行的未来研究领域。

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来源期刊

Tourist Studies HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-

CiteScore

6.90

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4.20%

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期刊介绍： Tourist Studies is a multi-disciplinary journal providing a platform for the development of critical perspectives on the nature of tourism as a social phenomenon through a qualitative lens. Theoretical and multi-disciplinary. Tourist Studies provides a critical social science approach to the study of the tourist and the structures which influence tourist behaviour and the production and reproduction of tourism. The journal examines the relationship between tourism and related fields of social inquiry. Tourism and tourist styles consumption are not only emblematic of many features of contemporary social change, such as mobility, restlessness, the search for authenticity and escape, but they are increasingly central to economic restructuring, globalization, the sociology of consumption and the aestheticization of everyday life. Tourist Studies analyzes these features of tourism from a multi-disciplinary perspective and seeks to evaluate, compare and integrate approaches to tourism from sociology, socio-psychology, leisure studies, cultural studies, geography and anthropology. Global Perspective. Tourist Studies takes a global perspective of tourism, widening and challenging the established views of tourism presented in current periodical literature. Tourist Studies includes: Theoretical analysis with a firm grounding in contemporary problems and issues in tourism studies, qualitative analyses of tourism and the tourist experience, reviews linking theory and policy, interviews with scholars at the forefront of their fields, review essays on particular fields or issues in the study of tourism, review of key texts, publications and visual media relating to tourism studies, and notes on conferences and other events of topical interest to the field of tourism studies.