Effects of Social Comparison, Travel Envy and Self-presentation on the Intention to Visit Tourist Destinations

Sharing travel experiences through social networks has become a very common practice today. Access and exposure to posted content can generate, in users, behavioral and emotional reactions capable of affecting their intention to travel. Based on this, the objective of the present work is to verify t...

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Autores principales: Danielle Fernandes Costa Machado, Paula Cândida do Couto Santos, Mirna de Lima Medeiros
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:5fadf0b54d264189906989b8e01900f32021-11-11T15:48:08ZEffects of Social Comparison, Travel Envy and Self-presentation on the Intention to Visit Tourist Destinations1807-734X10.15728/bbr.2021.18.3.4https://doaj.org/article/5fadf0b54d264189906989b8e01900f32021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=123068387004https://doaj.org/toc/1807-734XSharing travel experiences through social networks has become a very common practice today. Access and exposure to posted content can generate, in users, behavioral and emotional reactions capable of affecting their intention to travel. Based on this, the objective of the present work is to verify the effects of behavioral characteristics (social comparison, envy and self-presentation) on the intention to visit destinations, as displayed by users on social networks--more specifically, on Instagram. The study methodology consists of a survey applied online from May to June 2018 with Instagram users, in which we obtained 547 valid responses. For data analysis, we used descriptive statistics, factor analysis, and logistic regression to test and confirm the hypotheses of the presented theoretical model. The results indicate that envy and social comparison increase the odds of intention to visit a destination, with the strongest effect being related to the social comparison variable.Danielle Fernandes Costa MachadoPaula Cândida do Couto SantosMirna de Lima MedeirosFUCAPE Business Schoolarticlesocial networkstravel envysocial comparisonselfpresentationtravel intentionBusinessHF5001-6182ENPTBBR: Brazilian Business Review, Vol 18, Iss 3, Pp 297-316 (2021)
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collection DOAJ
language EN
PT
topic social networks
travel envy
social comparison
self
presentation
travel intention
Business
HF5001-6182
spellingShingle social networks
travel envy
social comparison
self
presentation
travel intention
Business
HF5001-6182
Danielle Fernandes Costa Machado
Paula Cândida do Couto Santos
Mirna de Lima Medeiros
Effects of Social Comparison, Travel Envy and Self-presentation on the Intention to Visit Tourist Destinations
description Sharing travel experiences through social networks has become a very common practice today. Access and exposure to posted content can generate, in users, behavioral and emotional reactions capable of affecting their intention to travel. Based on this, the objective of the present work is to verify the effects of behavioral characteristics (social comparison, envy and self-presentation) on the intention to visit destinations, as displayed by users on social networks--more specifically, on Instagram. The study methodology consists of a survey applied online from May to June 2018 with Instagram users, in which we obtained 547 valid responses. For data analysis, we used descriptive statistics, factor analysis, and logistic regression to test and confirm the hypotheses of the presented theoretical model. The results indicate that envy and social comparison increase the odds of intention to visit a destination, with the strongest effect being related to the social comparison variable.
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author Danielle Fernandes Costa Machado
Paula Cândida do Couto Santos
Mirna de Lima Medeiros
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Paula Cândida do Couto Santos
Mirna de Lima Medeiros
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title Effects of Social Comparison, Travel Envy and Self-presentation on the Intention to Visit Tourist Destinations
title_short Effects of Social Comparison, Travel Envy and Self-presentation on the Intention to Visit Tourist Destinations
title_full Effects of Social Comparison, Travel Envy and Self-presentation on the Intention to Visit Tourist Destinations
title_fullStr Effects of Social Comparison, Travel Envy and Self-presentation on the Intention to Visit Tourist Destinations
title_full_unstemmed Effects of Social Comparison, Travel Envy and Self-presentation on the Intention to Visit Tourist Destinations
title_sort effects of social comparison, travel envy and self-presentation on the intention to visit tourist destinations
publisher FUCAPE Business School
publishDate 2021
url https://doaj.org/article/5fadf0b54d264189906989b8e01900f3
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