Leisure Consumption Research Articles

More Work or More Leisure? Housing Matters

We contribute to the growing number of studies in the literature that focus on the effects of housing on labor in two ways by using the case of China. First, we add leisure consumption, and second, a heterogeneity analysis. Using survey data from 2017, we find that, overall, housing value appreciation significantly reduces labor force participation. However, once the sample is broken down into housing ownership and region, the heterogeneity analysis shows something different. Specifically, for housing renters in high housing price regions, their engagement in the labor market decreases with housing appreciation, which is also true for housing owners. This conclusion is corroborated by a study on leisure, in which leisure is shown to be increasing with housing appreciation, especially for renters in high housing price regions. Our results support the claim that rapidly increasing housing prices might be an important cause for the “lying flat” phenomenon in China.

Avatar Profile Design and Source Credibility in Online Leisure Communities: Implications for Engagement Strategies

This study examines the influence of avatar profile design, specifically information categories, on source credibility perceptions and intentions to engage within an online leisure consumption community. Employing a 2 × 2 × 2 mixed factorial experimental design, the research manipulates membership length, post count, and status label as independent variables. The dependent variables are community engagement and source credibility, with the latter also acting as a mediation variable in the hypotheses. Additionally, similarity functions as an independent variable in the analysis. The findings reveal that avatar profile design lacks impact on source credibility perceptions for nonmembers. Simultaneously, considering similarity and source credibility together proves more predictive than assessing each quality separately. Segregating nonmember and member interpretations suggests that current members can be invested in without deterring potential newcomers. This research combines traditional marketing concepts with an examination of an online leisure community, offering a unique perspective on how avatar profile design can mutually benefit brands, communities, and consumers in the online realm.

Tourism and indigenous leisure consumption: A Q approach

Tourism and indigenous leisure consumption: A Q approach

How regional innovation and entrepreneurship vitality affects residents' leisure consumption potential-utility differences between educational investment and scientific and technological investment.

Innovation and entrepreneurship vitality, as a key factors in the development of the digital economy, significantly affects both regional economic development and residents' consumption capacity. On the basis of the panel data of 31 provinces and cities in China from 2010 to 2022, this paper explores the impact of regional innovation and entrepreneurship vitality on residents' leisure consumption potential and its internal mechanism. Research has shown that innovation and entrepreneurship vitality drives leisure consumption potential. Furthermore, regional innovation and entrepreneurship vitality can effectively increase educational investment, which in turn increases residents' leisure consumption potential. Although scientific and technological investment can significantly increase innovation and entrepreneurship vitality, it curtails the development of residents' leisure consumption potential. In addition, there are significant differences in the effect of regional innovation and entrepreneurial vitality on residents' leisure consumption potential in different policy environments and demographic structure. Diverse policies help to better stimulate regional innovation and entrepreneurship influence on residents' leisure consumption. The development of innovation and entrepreneurship vitality can effectively stimulate the leisure consumption potential of residents in areas with low population mobility, which compensate for the decrease of leisure consumption due to the lack of external population. On the basis of the inconsistency between economic development and residents' spiritual needs in China's major contradictions, this study further explores the coordination between scientific and technological development and individuals' needs for a better life, and further complements and justifies the literature in the field of innovation and consumption.

도시 규모에 따른 고령자의 여가 활동 분석: 여가 비용, 여가 만족, 주관적 건강인식을 중심으로

Objective : This study aims to systematically analyze the relationships between urban size and the leisure expenditure, overall leisure satisfaction, perceived health status, and perceived happiness levels of the elderly. Methods : The research was conducted using a cross-sectional secondary analysis of the 2022 National Leisure Activity Survey data, targeting 5,030 elderly individuals aged 50 and over. Participants were categorized based on their residential area size, including metropolitan areas, small and medium-sized cities, and rural areas. Descriptive statistics and ANOVA were employed to analyze the differences in leisure expenditure, overall leisure satisfaction, perceived health status, and perceived happiness levels according to urban size. Additionally, Pearson correlation analysis was used to explore the correlations among these variables. Results : The findings revealed that elderly individuals residing in metropolitan areas spent more on leisure activities and reported higher levels of overall leisure satisfaction, perceived health status, and perceived happiness compared to those living in small and medium-sized cities and rural areas. Significant correlations were observed between urban size and these variables, with values decreasing as the urban size decreased. Conclusion : This study confirms that substantial differences exist in the leisure lives of the elderly based on urban size, which may also impact their overall quality of life. Therefore, the development of tailored leisure programs and policy support that consider the characteristics of each region is necessary to promote the health and well-being of the elderly.

How food pairing and leisure consumption occasions shape Sales channel marketing Strategies for Non-Alcoholic Ready-to-Drink Beverages in Vietnam

How food pairing and leisure consumption occasions shape Sales channel marketing Strategies for Non-Alcoholic Ready-to-Drink Beverages in Vietnam

Sprinting to success?: F1 fans’ excitement towards change in sport competition formats

ABSTRACT Driven by an increasing digitalised consumption of leisure, and consumer preferences evolving to favour speed and immediate gratification during consumption, new shorter formats of sport competitions are being introduced. Since 2021 Formula One have been discussing complementing their traditional race format, with alternative shorter formats to re-ignite the excitement of their fans. In this study, we explore the proclaimed excitement of fans towards the three different proposed formats of F1 races through a large-scale survey (N = 2,107), showing in fact negative effects that proposed format changes have on F1 fans’ anticipated excitement. What emerges instead is the importance of the length of fandom in influencing fans’ receptivity to format changes, rather than the generation in which they belong, stressing thus the significance of intra rather than inter-generational exploration of fandom.

Is my city a competitive tourism destination? An assessment from residents’ perspective

PurposeThis study aims to examine the effects of natural, cultural and urban resources on the city's tourism competitiveness from the residents' perspective and identifies the factors that city managers should prioritize.Design/methodology/approachThe authors used multiple methods. The partial least squares structural equation modeling tested our theoretical assumption and the importance–performance map analysis provided an extra interpretation of the results to make them tangible to city managers. Data collection was done with residents of Viseu, Portugal.FindingsThe findings indicated that tourism competitiveness from the residents' perspective depends on the leisure activities they can enjoy as much as tourists, as the limits between tourism activities and everyday life are tenuous. The quality of leisure is part of residents' well-being; however, the results suggested that tourism development fails to engage residents in the destination's leisure offer. The cultural heritage is not attractive to them because it is part of their day-by-day living area or they need to enjoy the cultural offer. To accommodate residents' demands, destination managers need to improve the offer of outdoor activities and urban leisure opportunities.Research limitations/implicationsThe main limitations were the sample size and the data collection after a pandemic context, that is, in a period of economic crisis that reduced leisure consumption. The implications point out variables to managers prioritize to improve place management and rethink tourism competitiveness based on a citizen-centered view. It is also a way to understand residents as staycationers.Practical implicationsOur research contributed to urban and city research literature with meaningful findings that can help city managers improve the positive impacts of tourism on residents and enhance the integration of tourism and urban daily life.Social implicationsThe authors suggested strategies for integrating residents into cultural activities.Originality/valueTheoretically, this study is set up in the frontier of rethinking and promoting society-centric tourism development. The research contributed to urban and city research literature with meaningful findings that can help city managers improve the positive impacts of tourism on residents and enhance the integration of tourism and urban daily life. In this direction, the authors suggest strategies for integrating residents into cultural activities.

Mental Health and (Online) Behaviors during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain: A Network-Based Approach.

The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to the increase in mortality and morbidity rates globally, but it has also led to a generalized worsening of mental health and risk behaviors in different population groups regardless of the measures adopted by different governments. In this paper, using data from a Spanish survey of emotional well-being, we aim to explore through mixed graphical models the complex structure of relationships between the mental health of populations, their lifestyles, and forms of cultural and leisure consumption during the pandemic. The results bring to light some interesting findings, such as the association between teleworking and greater rest or greater stress with the use of social media, a variable that enables the connection with other mental health problems of greater severity. Increased physical activity and the consumption of streaming content at home, as well as increased care for family, friends, and neighbors, are some of the variables that show relevant associations. These findings highlight the usefulness and versatility of this network approach for the study of health behaviors and health outcomes, which offer the researcher a holistic and organic view of the relational structure of complex data characterized by high dimensionality and variables with different levels of measurement.

The Experiential Leisure Behaviors of Camper’s According to Their Leisure Consumption Tendencies

The Experiential Leisure Behaviors of Camper’s According to Their Leisure Consumption Tendencies

A study on the Relationship between Motivation for Using Social Media and Conspicuous Leisure Consumption Focusing on Consumers in their 20s in Korea and Brazil

A study on the Relationship between Motivation for Using Social Media and Conspicuous Leisure Consumption Focusing on Consumers in their 20s in Korea and Brazil

Analisis Efektivitas Strategi Pemasaran dalam Meningkatkan Ketertarikan Konsumen di Cerita Rasa Nusantara Resto, Jakarta

In this digital age, marketing is the key to the success of a company, the role of marketing itself is increasingly crucial when the competition is getting tighter plus market conditions tend to change. This intense competition will make consumers face many choices in determining the products they want to buy and consume. Consumers have turned into what is referred to as leisumers (leisure consumers). Experience-based consumption such as vacations, dine-outs, hanging out in cafes, watching concerts, gyms, yoga, to online games is increasing rapidly making the leisure sector grow so fast that it surpasses other sectors, including the restaurant sector which is now improving the quality of its services to meet consumers who have changed their behavior. The purpose of this research is to find out how the effectiveness of the restaurant strategy of cerita rasa nusantara restaurant in marketing its products with the culinary concept of the archipelago when the rise of restaurants rebranding with modern concepts today. This study uses a descriptive quantitative method using a Likert scale on the research instrument. The research population was all customers of the Nusantara flavor story restaurant with a total sample of 96. The results showed that marketing strategy had a significant and positive effect on consumer attraction. This shows that the marketing efforts made by the restaurant have a positive impact on attracting consumer interest, which can lead to an increase in visits and sales of the restaurant.

Public hospital reform, family health consumption and health inequality: evidence from China Family Panel Studies.

In 2017, China launched a comprehensive reform of public hospitals and eliminated drug markups, aiming to solve the problem of expensive medical treatment and allow poor and low-income people to enjoy basic health opportunities. This study attempts to evaluate the policy impact of public hospital reform on the health inequality of Chinese residents and analyze its micro-level mechanism from the perspective of household consumption structure. Studying the inherent causal connection between public hospital reform and health inequality is of paramount significance for strengthening China's healthcare policies, system design, raising the average health level of Chinese residents, and achieving the goal of ensuring a healthy life for individuals of all age groups. Based on the five waves of data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) conducted in 2012-2020, We incorporates macro-level statistical indicators such as the time of public hospital reforms, health insurance surplus, and aging, generating 121,447 unbalanced panel data covering 27 provinces in China for five periods. This data was used to explore the impact of public hospital reform on health inequality. Logical and empirical tests were conducted to determine whether the reform, by altering family medical care and healthy leisure consumption expenditures, affects the micro-pathways of health inequality improvement. We constructed a two-way fixed model based on the re-centralized influence function (RIF_CI_OLS) and a chained mediation effects model to verify the hypotheses mentioned above. Public hospital reform can effectively improve the health inequality situation among Chinese residents. The reform significantly reduces household medical expenses, increases healthy leisure consumption, promotes the upgrading of family health consumption structure, and lowers the health inequality index. In terms of indirect effects, the contribution of the increase in healthy leisure consumption is relatively greater. Public hospital reform significantly alleviates health inequality in China, with household health consumption serving as an effective intermediary pathway in the aforementioned impact. In the dual context of global digitization and exacerbated population aging, enhancing higher education levels and vigorously developing the health industry may be two key factors contributing to this effect.

Identities without Products: When the Preference for Self-Linked Products Weakens

Abstract Extant literature and common marketing practices converge around the idea that stronger self-links to a brand and its products lead to increased brand loyalty. In this article, we challenge this conventional notion by revealing situations where the preference for self-linked brands diminishes, despite the self-links remaining unchanged. We introduce a key distinction between two types of consumer identities based on whether identity expression relies on specific products: product-dependent (e.g., chef) and product-independent (e.g., foodie). Our theory posits that self-links to products exert less influence on preference when a product-independent identity is prominent. Across five studies examining consumer leisure identities, we find that priming a product-independent (vs. product-dependent) identity reduces preference for self-linked products/brands. Interestingly, it can also enhance preference for negatively self-linked (dissociative) products/brands among materialistic consumers. In a sixth experiment and a real-world Facebook study, we illustrate that the extent to which consumers’ identity is chronically product-independent can be assessed either directly or indirectly from social media interests, allowing for more effective targeting of brand-switching appeals. Adding to the literature on the symbolic role of products in identity expression, our research uniquely investigates the functional role of products in identity expression and its profound impact on product/brand preference.

A Study on Consumer Behavior in Non-face-to-face Leisure Activities Applying the PPM Model: Focusing on Online Music Performances

Purpose: This study applied the PPM model to study consumer behavior in non-face-to-face leisure activities in the era of the coronavirus pandemic. Design/methodology/approach: In order to achieve the purpose of this study, literature research and empirical research were conducted to derive primary measurement items, and an online questionnaire survey was conducted with consumers who had experience in participating in non-face-to-face leisure activities during the coronavirus pandemic using the initially derived PPM model-based factors. Through factor analysis, 5 push factor items, 4 pull factor items, and 3 mooring factor items were derived, and regression analyses were conducted separately for leisure satisfaction and leisure recommendation intention to identify non-face-to-face leisure consumers' behavior intentions. Findings: As a result, it was found that some items of PPM factors had significant influencing relationships with non-face-to-face leisure consumers' leisure satisfaction and recommendation. In addition, satisfaction with non-faceto- face leisure was found to have a positive (+) influencing relationship with recommendation intentions. Research limitations/implications: This study is significant as it is the first to attempt to analyze the leisure behavior of consumers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study presents motivators and intervening factors that affect leisure behavior from a new perspective based on the changed leisure environment due to the pandemic. However, the study only focused on online music performances when examining non-face-to-face leisure behavior. Therefore, the behavior intentions of other non-face-to-face leisure consumers were not comprehensively understood, and the results of this study cannot be generalized. Originality/value: This study is significant in that it presented non-face-to-face leisure behavior motivation and constraint factors from a new perspective based on the leisure environment changed due to COVID-19, and it is expected that the application of the PPM model and leisure behavior intention can be applied to various tourism and leisure behavior studies hereafter to bring about theoretical expansion.

청년과의 여가 격차에 대한 시니어의 인식과 경험

As South Korea is predicted to become a super-aging society in 2025, utilizing leisure time for many older adults is becoming an even more important issue. According to the Korean National Leisure Activities Survey, older adults have more leisure time than younger adults, but their satisfaction with leisure activities is lower, and the generation gaps in leisure activity diversity, leisure consumption, and leisure awareness are widening. Not only policymakers and researchers but also seniors themselves must recognize and proactively address the problem of the leisure gaps so that more effective and practical solutions can be devised. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to explore older adults' perceptions and experiences of the leisure gaps with younger adults. By adopting the photovoice research method, which is a participatory research method, this study sought to understand the problem of the leisure gaps faced by the senior generation through their own voices. From eight seniors in their 60s or older, statement data were collected through photographs taken by the research participants themselves, focus group interviews (FGI), and individual in-depth interviews. Data analysis revealed a total of six high-level thematic categories, or leisure gaps, as follows: the gaps in trying new activities, consumption perception, leisure perception, relationship perception, care conditions, and adaptability. From the results, the leisure reality faced by older adults was derived, and solutions to the leisure gaps were organized into the following six categories: developing inexpensive and diverse leisure programs, expanding access to leisure information, supporting the formation of leisure communities, developing and supporting leisure education programs, supporting leisure for family caregivers, and operating detailed multi-level programs. By applying the photovoice method, this study enabled a deeper understanding of the experiences of the leisure gaps as perceived by older adults, captured various perspectives of theirs, and demonstrated that seniors were able to consider and contemplate the issue of the leisure gaps on their own and derive improvement measures.

A longitudinal study on changes in weekend leisure time by age groups in Korea (1999–2019)

BackgroundData analysis was conducted on 20 years (1999–2019) of the Korean Time Use Survey (KTUS) to identify differences and characteristics among each types by extracting latent clusters of weekend leisure activities.MethodsUsing data from the KTUS, we classified weekend leisure time activities into 6 distinct categories. To identify the latent clusters for each year's KTUS data, we utilized latent profile analysis (LPA). Furthermore, independent samples t-tests and one-way ANOVA were conducted to investigate the characteristics of each latent cluster.ResultsAs a result of leisure time analysis by survey period, media use accounted for the largest share in all three age groups. The results of the LPA, which included media, sports, culture, and tourism, revealed that the distribution of leisure time for these activities was lower throughout the entire study period.ConclusionBased on the results of this study, it is recommended to explore constructive leisure activities and to develop policy measures to promote the domestic leisure industry and leisure consumption.

Coupling development of sports industry and tourism industry based on internet of things.

This study investigates the positive coupling between the sports industry and tourism, exploring the ways to promote their interconnection. Under state guidance, the integration of sports industry services is facilitated to attract sports culture and tourism fairs, leveraging regional economic development advantages to enhance the industrial market appeal. The emerging leisure consumption mode of sports tourism injects vitality into the economy, fostering the core sports service industry. The coupling of the education and tourism sectors is strategically aligned with long-term national policies. Using IoT technology, this paper employs a grey relational analysis to assess the coupling between the sports industry and tourism, revealing a significant correlation. Experimental results demonstrate a positive coupling trend, likened to conjoined twins with a natural material basis and technical support. This coupling not only aligns with industry trends but also resonates with the "environmental protection era," "green era," and "ecological era," marking a pivotal aspect of industrial development. The study contributes valuable insights into the symbiotic relationship between the sports and tourism industries, emphasizing their interconnectedness and the positive implications for economic and environmental sustainability.

Totally Administered Heteronomy: Adorno on Work, Leisure, and Politics in the Age of Digital Capitalism

This paper aims to demonstrate the contemporary relevance of Adorno’s thought for business ethicists working in the critical tradition by showing how his critique of modern social life anticipated, and offers continuing illumination of, recent technological transformations of capitalism. It develops and extrapolates Adorno’s thought regarding three central spheres of modern society, which have seen radical changes in light of recent technological developments: work, in which employee monitoring has become ever more sophisticated and intrusive; leisure consumption, in which the algorithmic developments of the culture industry have paved the way for entertainment products to dominate us; and political discourse, in which social media has exacerbated the anti-democratic tendencies Adorno warned of in the mid-twentieth century. We conclude by presenting, as a rejoinder to these developments, the contours of an Adornian ethics of resistance to the reification and dehumanisation of such developments.

The spatial distribution of carbon footprints and engagement in pro-climate behaviors – Trends across urban-rural gradients in the nordics

The spatial distribution of carbon footprints and engagement in pro-climate behaviors – Trends across urban-rural gradients in the nordics