{"title":"Tourism Scholars' Confusion About the Locus of Causality and Locus of Control Theories","authors":"M. Saleh, Karina Bogatyreva","doi":"10.37741/t.71.1.6","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Tourists’ behavior has caused unprecedented studies to understand it. However, recent literature has exposed the fragility of understanding and reviewing tourist attribution, especially those established on the locus dimension. The locus dimension studies how tourists assign responsibilities to tourism events, whether internal and/or external causes. However, tourism literature is confused while utilizing the locus dimension. Tourism scholars mix between locus of causality (LOC) and locus of control (LOC) theories. Both have the same abbreviation, but both have different approaches. Therefore, the current study provides a new theoretical review tendency by applying a new concept, namely locus of personal traits (LOPT), with new measurement items for (LOC) and (LOPT). The study revealed that, far from the rhetoric occasionally linked with the locus of control, using the locus of personal traits will mitigate the substantial gap.","PeriodicalId":46641,"journal":{"name":"Tourism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Tourism","FirstCategoryId":"1092","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.37741/t.71.1.6","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Tourists’ behavior has caused unprecedented studies to understand it. However, recent literature has exposed the fragility of understanding and reviewing tourist attribution, especially those established on the locus dimension. The locus dimension studies how tourists assign responsibilities to tourism events, whether internal and/or external causes. However, tourism literature is confused while utilizing the locus dimension. Tourism scholars mix between locus of causality (LOC) and locus of control (LOC) theories. Both have the same abbreviation, but both have different approaches. Therefore, the current study provides a new theoretical review tendency by applying a new concept, namely locus of personal traits (LOPT), with new measurement items for (LOC) and (LOPT). The study revealed that, far from the rhetoric occasionally linked with the locus of control, using the locus of personal traits will mitigate the substantial gap.
期刊介绍:
Journal TOURISM is an international academic and professional quarterly which welcomes articles on various aspects of travel and tourism. Th e journal emphasises the broadness and interrelatedness of the tourism sector. Manuscripts submitted to the Journal can be processed quickly if they are prepared according to the following guidelines. Manuscripts will be returned to the author with a set of instructions if they are not submitted according to our style guide. No contribution will be accepted which has been published elsewhere, unless it is specifi cally invited or agreed by the Editor.