A Study on the Relationships among the Cognition of Family Vacation, Constraints, Travel Style and Well-Being

• Main Authors: Ju-Chen Cheng, 鄭如珍
• Other Authors: Chih-Wen Ting
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64823456280864730074

碩士 === 南華大學 === 旅遊管理學系旅遊管理碩士班 === 102 === 　　Modern people live their lives in a hurry. Consequently, this reduces the opportunities they have to interact with their family members. Family leisure activities can moderately release the accumulating pressure of routine life and give family members a chance to spend more time together. Family leisure activities also increase the chance of family members getting along with each other, which facilitates closer relationships among family members. For the same reasons, family vacations have become a major leisure activity. However, there are many factors that keep people from taking part in family vacations. These include family care, transportation, inconvenience, lack of information, and in particular being too busy. Therefore, family members need to coordinate and plan travel activities. Planning not only increases the amount of interactive communication, it provides a common topic of conversation, both of which promote family cohesion and well-being. Travelling is often one of the most anticipated activities for a family. Since, the higher the cohesion is between family members, the higher their well-being will be. Hence for the purposes of enhancing the well-being of family members, family vacations are essential. 　　The objective of this study is to investigate the relationships among the cognition of family vacation, constraints, travel styles, and well-being of the residents who live in southern part from Yunlin. Consequently, this research targets people living in southern part from Yunlin; and focuses on individuals aged 20 and over. There was a total of 491 questionnaires by convenience sampling of questionnaires were received. Descriptive statistics, item analysis, reliability analysis, confirmatory factory analysis and structural equation modeling were employed. The results were as follows: (1) travel styles are significantly affected by the positive cognition of family vacation, but travel styles aren’t significantly affected by the negative cognition of family vacation; (2) in travel styles, life-enjoyment-Orientation is significantly affected by constraints, but learning-experience-orientation, life-escape-orientation, relative-reunion-orientation and health- enhancement-orientation aren’t; (3) well-being is significantly affected by both the cognition of family vacation and constraints; (4) well-being is significantly affected by constraints; (5) in travel styles, well-being is significantly affected by life- enjoyment-orientation, life-escape-orientation and relative-reunion-orientation, but not by learning-experience-orientation and health-enhancement-orientation. 　　According to research and discussed, we proposed suggestions to the residents aged 20 and over living in southern part from Yunlin, and the related people respectively for future research, and it will help to reduce the constraints on family vacation activities enrich the family travel styles, and increase well-being.