Principles and Practice of Structural Equation Modeling (2nd ed.)

Cornell hotel and restaurant administration quarterly

Going to College tells the powerful story of how high school students make choices about postsecondary education. Drawing on their unprecedented nine-year study of high school students, the authors explore how students and their parents negotiate these important decisions. Family background, finances, education, information-all influence students' plans after high school and the career paths they pursue, as do the more subtle messages delivered by parents and counselors which shape adolescents' self-expectations. For high school guidance counselors, college admissions counselors, parents and teachers, and public policy makers, this book is a valuable resource that explains the decision-making process and helps adults to help students make appropriate choices. The authors identify predisposition, search, and choice as the three stages in the student decision-making process. Predisposition refers to the plans students develop for education or work after they graduate from high school. The search stage involves students discovering and evaluating a variety of colleges and universities. In the choice stage, students choose a school to attend from among a list of institutions that are being seriously considered. Understanding exactly how students move through the predisposition, search, and choice stages of the college decision-making process can help students and parents prepare themselves for this process and consider a wider array of options. For education professionals, understanding this process can lead to new initiatives to guide students and families effectively-by providing better incentives for college savings, for example, or devising more effective early information programs about postsecondary education. Going to Collegeis the first book to seriously study over an extended period the decisions that have a pervasive and lasting impact on individual careers, livelihoods, and lifestyles. The authors conclude with important recommendations for improving academic support, exploring various financial options, providing early encouragement-in other words, for recognizing the factors that influence students' decisions, and knowing when to pay attention to them.

Going to College: How Social, Economic, and Educational Factors Influence the Decisions Students Make

This is psychology

Services Marketing: People, Technology, Strategy

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to provide an analysis of published marketing research within the top four hospitality journals and suggest future research directions. Design/methodology/approach – The study selects the top four hospitality-oriented journals and analyzes the topics, methods, and trends of hospitality marketing articles published between 2000 and 2009 through a qualitative research design using content analysis and descriptive analysis. Findings – The study explores how hospitality marketing research has progressed within the past decade in terms of topical areas, industry applications, and methods, and additionally discovers notable trends for hospitality marketing research. Practical implications – The study analyzes published research in hospitality marketing and is thus expected to provide topical and methodological recommendations to academic scholars in contributing further to scientific progress and the literature. Originality/value – Based on the existing reviews, this study...

Hospitality marketing research from 2000 to 2009 : Topics, methods, and trends

Influence of popular culture on special interest tourists' destination image

This study integrated the Model of Goal-directed Behavior (MGB) and the Attention, Interest, Desire, and Actions (AIDA) model into a conceptual framework to examine how pop culture influences decisions to visit a pop culture–featured destination. Findings revealed that visit intentions were significantly influenced by variables in the two models (MGB and AIDA), highlighting that attention to pop culture and positive anticipated emotions played important roles in unifying them. Results suggest that the integrated framework offers a comprehensive and coherent perspective on the complicated decision-making process of pop culture fans, which enhances the explanatory power for predicting future intentions. Thus, this paper offers an innovative approach to integrating models from the disciplines of psychology and advertising.

An Integrated Model of Pop Culture Fans’ Travel Decision-Making Processes:

Destination loyalty as explained through self-congruity, emotional solidarity, and travel satisfaction.

Although the success of a theme park depends heavily on visitors’ experience, few studies have sought to understand visitor behaviors. This research employs the experience economy model to investig...

SoJung Lee

Papers

Hospitality marketing research from 2000 to 2009 : Topics, methods, and trends

Influence of popular culture on special interest tourists' destination image

An Integrated Model of Pop Culture Fans’ Travel Decision-Making Processes:

Destination loyalty as explained through self-congruity, emotional solidarity, and travel satisfaction.

Exploring Theme Park Visitors’ Experience on Satisfaction and Revisit Intention: A Utilization of Experience Economy Model