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The Effect of Tourism Experience on Tourists’ Environmentally Responsible Behavior at Cultural Heritage Sites: The Mediating Role of Cultural Attachment
With the rapid development of tourism and the explosive growth of tourist arrivals, the destructive effects of tourist activities on the ecological environment of tourist destinations are becoming increasingly severe, seriously restricting the sustainable development of these destinations. As one of the most important types of current tourist destinations, cultural heritage sites are in urgent need of a well-protected ecological environment. Environmental protection has already become an important task for their sustainable development. The behavior of tourists during visits, which plays a central role in tourist activities, has gradually become a key factor affecting the environment of tourist destinations. Therefore, approaches to effectively identify the mechanisms underpinning tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior have become a focus of both theoretical and practical domains. Based on a stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) theoretical framework, our study established a mediation model based on cultural attachments, and explored the mechanisms affecting how cognitive, emotional, and cultural experiences influence tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior. The experience-attachment-behavior transmission mechanism was also considered. A structural equation model was applied to empirically test the 588 pieces of data collected from tourists involved in heritage tourism. The test results show that the cognitive, emotional, and cultural experiences delivered from tourist destinations of cultural heritage, positively affected tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior. Cultural attachment plays a partially mediating role between cognitive, emotional, cultural experiences and tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior. These study results not only support theoretical research on the relationship between tourism experiences and tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior, but also indicate the effective driving pathways of tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior at the practical level. As such, this research provides both theoretical reference and practical guidance for the sustainable development of tourist destinations with diverse cultural heritages.
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From user needs to sustainable innovation: An integrated NLP–grounded theory–Kano–AHP–QFD approach to the modern design of Yi ethnic lacquerware chairs
A close relationship exists among cultural expression, craftsmanship transmission, and user experience in intangible cultural heritage (ICH) furniture. However, the modernization of ethnic cultural products requires systematic understanding of users’ latent cultural and emotional needs. Using the Yi ethnic lacquerware chair as a focus, this study proposes a user-centered design framework integrating cultural genes, emotional resonance, and design innovation. User requirements were identified from 49,671 valid online comment records using natural language processing and Grounded Theory, complemented by semi-structured interviews with 12 experts. User requirements were classified using the Kano model and weighted via the Analytic Hierarchy Process. Quality Function Deployment was used to translate prioritized user needs into technical characteristics, while the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) was applied to evaluate alternative design schemes. It was found that cultural symbolism, emotional value, and narrative expression exerted stronger influences on user preference than functional attributes. Technical priorities include culturally themed form expression, sustainable application of Yi lacquerware craftsmanship, and digital integration of ethnic patterns. The proposed NLP–Kano–AHP–QFD–TOPSIS system reduces subjectivity in design decision-making and offers a transparent and transferable approach for ethnic furniture design, ICH product development, and sustainable cultural innovation.
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Teaching Stephen King : horror, the supernatural, and new approaches to literature
\"Teaching Stephen King critically examines the works of Stephen King and several ways King can be incorporated into the high school and college classroom. The book is organized around three key themes: Variations of Classic Horror Tropes, Real Life Horror, and Playing with Publishing\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Culinary Tourism Experiences in Agri-Tourism Destinations and Sustainable Consumption—Understanding Italian Tourists’ Motivations
Culinary tourism represents an emerging component of the tourism industry and encompasses all the traditional values associated with the new trends in tourism: respect for culture and tradition, authenticity and sustainability. Italy is known worldwide for the richness and variety of its gastronomy, and agri-tourism represents one of the most important places where culinary tourists can experience local food and beverages. By using a modified version of Kim and Eves’ motivational scale, the present study aims to investigate which motivational factors affect the frequency of culinary tourists to experience local food and beverages in agri-tourism destinations. The findings of the present study reveal that the social and environmental sustainability, among the other motivations, has shown to play a crucial role in influencing Italian tourists’ frequency to experience local food and beverage in agri-tourism destinations.
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Establishment of an Open Information Platform for the National Sports Center in China
In recent years, digital public services have evolved rapidly, garnering significant attention within the socio-cultural domain, particularly in the sports sector. A pivotal concern is how to effectively consolidate and disseminate public digital sports resources that are distributed nationwide. Addressing this, our study proposes the architectural design and pivotal technologies for a nationwide public digital sports resource sharing cloud service platform. This platform is specially tailored for the National Sports Center, aiming to enhance the digital engagement of the sports community and promote the open sharing of digital sports resources. By focusing on the sports context, we explore the interaction design principles of an online sports research public service platform from an academic research perspective, aimed at enriching the digital sports experience. Furthermore, we delve into the dynamics of sports communication in the era of big data, analyzing its characteristics, and the internal and external forces influencing these dynamics. The establishment of a robust public data open information platform for the National Sports Center is examined, highlighting the challenges and opportunities it presents for sports communication. This is posited as an effective strategy to navigate the evolving landscape of sports communication in the contemporary era.
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Digital Technology for Cultural Experience: A Psychological Ownership Perspective on the Three-Path Model
Digital technology is profoundly transforming the experiential landscape of tourism. However, its application does not necessarily produce cultural experiences, creating a critical bottleneck that constrains the sustainable development of the cultural tourism industry and broader societal culture. To address this gap, this study introduces psychological ownership theory as an overarching explanatory framework. It constructs and validates an integrated model that examines how digital technology characteristics (interactivity and innovativeness) influence cultural experience through three parallel mediating pathways: cognitive evaluation (perceived usefulness and ease of use), scenario construction, and flow experience. Based on 540 visitor questionnaires, structural equation modeling validated the theoretical model. Findings reveal that the interactivity and innovation of digital technology jointly stimulate visitors’ psychological ownership through three parallel pathways. Specifically, technological innovativeness exhibited the strongest effect on perceived ease of use (β = 0.387, p < 0.001), while the indirect effect via the flow experience path was also significant (effect size = 0.036). This process stimulates visitors’ psychological ownership, ultimately leading to cultural experiences. The study systematically reveals the pathways through which digital technology empowers cultural experiences across three dimensions: as a rational tool, an emotional narrative medium, and an intrinsic psychological catalyst. It highlights that strategically allocating technological resources to cultivate visitors’ psychological ownership is crucial for driving high-quality industrial development. Furthermore, the research offers significant implications for cultural sustainability, suggesting that such internally motivated identification provides a more effective foundation for the living transmission of culture and socio-cultural sustainability than external regulations or imposed norms.
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Effects of cultural education and cultural experiences on the cultural competence among undergraduate nursing students
Because of globalization and growing immigrant populations, nursing students need to possess a high level of cultural competence to provide nursing care to patients from various cultural backgrounds. However, it has been reported that the current cultural education in nursing curriculums is not sufficient to improve students' cultural competence. Little is known about how nursing students' personal experiences of other cultures may impact their cultural competence. This study was conducted to identify the ways in which cultural education and personal experiences with other cultures affect nursing students' cultural competence. A questionnaire-based descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted with 236 Korean nursing students from four universities in South Korea. The explanatory power of cultural experiences and cultural education for nursing students' cultural competence was 8.1% and 7.1%, respectively. The present study revealed that the explanatory power of the variable for nursing students' cultural competence increased when cultural experiences were added to cultural education. Among cultural experiences, contact with people from other cultural areas influenced nursing students’ cultural competence the most. Therefore, it is recommended to encourage nursing students to engage in extracurricular activities with people from other countries, adding this to organized lectures on cultural education.
•Cultural competence has been a critical component of nursing education.•Current education is not sufficient to improve nursing students' cultural competence.•Cultural competence increased when cultural experiences were added to education.•Extracurricular activities experience other culture are needed for cultural competence.
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Cross-cultural experience unlocks entrepreneurial tendencies for rule-breaking: a priming experiment
PurposeDrawing on covariance attribution theory, this study investigates how and when cross-cultural experience develops the entrepreneurial aptitude for rule-breaking. The authors sought to replicate findings in general psychology that morally relativistic thinking mediates these relationships. Further, extant ideas surrounding rebel-like archetypes of successful entrepreneurs were tested: that is, the more entrepreneurial a person considers themselves to be, the more likely they adopt such modes of thinking.Design/methodology/approachA second-stage moderated mediation model is applied using a novel between-subjects experimental priming design. Participants were recruited to reflect a generalizable sample of prospective entrepreneurs from the United States. Participants engaged in a randomly assigned priming activity to re-active their prior cultural immersion experiences. They then completed a context-adjusted experimental judgment task to assess rule-breaking.FindingsResults show that reflection on prior cross-cultural experience is positively related to proximal scores in morally relativistic cognition. Moderating effects of entrepreneurial intention provide robust evidence that those high in entrepreneurial intention are more likely to rule-break when morally relativistic thinking is high, but that those low in entrepreneurial intention are not.Originality/valueA growing research stream suggests cross-cultural experience can uniquely instill a range of entrepreneurial aptitudes. While psychology research has found evidence for “dark side” implications of cross-cultural experience, the authors posit that entrepreneurship scholars in this domain have been reluctant to tackle this due to the ethical grey areas between breaking rules constructively and breaking rules in more nefarious ways. This study provides evidence that morally relativistic cognition is more likely to drive people who consider themselves highly entrepreneurial to engage in rule-breaking tendencies.
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