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Abstract
In the highly competitive social environment, people are facing psychological problems of anxiety, tension, and depression. This paper mainly examines the impact of tourism on negative emotions. This article uses the 2016 cross‐sectional data of the Chinese Family Panel Studies (CFPS) to observe the relationship between household tourism expenditures and the emotions of family members. We used the Probit model and instrumental variables and selected two types of negative emotions as indicators to measure the mental health to establish a model together with economic indicators such as family tourism expenditure and other economic activity expenditures. The empirical results show that families spending on tourism have low probability of negative emotions or mental problems (P < 0.01). There are positive effects between family tourism activities and members' mental health. It can be seen that tourism is an effective way to alleviate national mental health problems.
Highlights
2019 Gallup Global Emotions Report shows that worry and sadness across the world have reached record high
To be specific, when proportion of tourism expenditures in the family life increases by 1%, the sad mood goes down by 0.18%, indicating that travel can effectively alleviate the negative mood and help improve the mental health
In the real scenarios of pleasure and relaxation, the positive and active instant emotional experience can, to some extent, adjust the time perception and avoid the continued lengthening of negative mood time perception while adjusting the personal emotional state. is proves the conclusions reached by Huang and Zou, e.g., the subhealth group prefers traveling with kinsfolk in the form of family for the sake of pleasure and tranquility [15]. e outdoor tourism and recreation can contribute powerfully to the well-being of women and families
Summary
2019 Gallup Global Emotions Report shows that worry and sadness across the world have reached record high (source: official website of Gallup, http://www.gallup.com). More than one in three people said they experienced a lot of worry (39%) or stress (35%), and three in 10 experienced a lot of physical pain (31%). At least one in five experienced sadness (24%) or anger (22%). While overall stress levels dropped two percentage points from the previous year, anger increased by two points—hitting a new high. Worry and sadness, which were already at record levels, increased by one point from the previous year. According to the Blue Book of Mental Health: China National Mental Health Development Report(2017–2018), Chinese people with rural household registration had “relatively poor” mental health than people with nonrural household registration, which has not changed much in four years. Mental health or emotional problems are becoming the main factors affecting people’s quality of life
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