Browsing Bergen Open Research Archive by Author "Larsen, Svein"
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Attitudes, efficacy beliefs, and willingness to pay for environmental protection when travelling
Doran, Rouven; Hanss, Daniel; Larsen, Svein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-04-09)Environmental sustainability may be seen as a collective challenge that can only be met if a sufficient number of individuals cooperate. Whether or not individual tourists are willing to contribute their share may thus ... -
Comparison between own and others’ travel motives: A research note
Doran, Rouven; Larsen, Svein; Wolff, Katharina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)This study examines the assumption that tendencies to dissociate oneself from other tourists relate to the desire to position own characteristics (using travel motives as an example) in a positive light. Results suggest ... -
Complexity and Simplification in Understanding Travel Preferences Among Tourists
Øgaard, Torvald; Doran, Rouven; Larsen, Svein; Wolff, Katharina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Travel preferences are complex phenomena, and thus cumbersome to deal with in full width in diagnostic and strategic planning processes. The aim of the present investigation was to explore to what extent individual preferences ... -
Different but similar: Social comparison of travel motives among tourists
Doran, Rouven; Larsen, Svein; Wolff, Katharina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-09-08)Although previous research suggests that people prefer to think of themselves as being authentic (or individualistic) travellers rather than stereotyped tourists, there have been few studies investigating the external ... -
Flux and permanence of risk perceptions: Tourists' perception of the relative and absolute risk for various destinations
Wolff, Katharina; Larsen, Svein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-12)The present investigation is a cross-sectional, multi-national, quantitative, and quasi-experimental comparison of tourists’ risk perceptions regarding different destinations throughout the past decade. Over 10,000 tourists ... -
How to define and measure risk perceptions
Wolff, Katharina; Larsen, Svein; Øgaard, Torvald (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Research on risk perceptions within the tourism domain suffers from two closely related problems: diverging conceptual and measurement definitions. The lack of precision and standardization is hindering comparisons of ... -
Intentions to make sustainable tourism choices: do value orientations, time perspective, and efficacy beliefs explain individual differences?
Doran, Rouven; Hanss, Daniel; Larsen, Svein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-05-02)There is a growing literature addressing psychological variables that can be associated with choices of environmentally sustainable tourism alternatives. This paper contributes to this literature by focusing on individual ... -
The relative importance of social and personal norms in explaining intentions to choose eco-friendly travel options
Doran, Rouven; Larsen, Svein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Changes in current travel patterns are important in order to move towards a more sustainable future of tourism. This paper reports findings from a study (N = 762) investigating the relative importance of social and personal ... -
A Taxonomy of Terror - About the Effect of Different Kinds of Terror on Risk Perceptions
Wolff, Katharina; Larsen, Svein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)Terrorism is an increasing problem; still, research systematically investigating the impact of varying kinds of terrorism is scarce. The present investigation uses hypothetical scenarios to look at effects of diverging ... -
What makes tourist experiences interesting
Larsen, Svein; Wolff, Katharina; Doran, Rouven; Øgaard, Torvald (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08-07)Traditional tourist role theory implies that tourists are either novelty seekers or familiarity seekers, while the interaction-hypothesis-of-inherent-interest predicts that interestingness is maximal when novel and familiar ... -
Worry and its correlates onboard cruise ships
Wolff, Katharina; Larsen, Svein; Marnburg, Einar; Øgaard, Torvald (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)The present study examined job-specific worry, as well as possible predictors of such worry, namelyjob-specific self-efficacy and supervisor dispositionism. 133 non-supervising crew members at differentdepartments onboard ...