How Do We Feel on Vacation? A Closer Look at How Emotions Change over the Course of a Trip

Journal of Travel Research

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 265-274

  Nawijn, Jeroen ^a   Mitas, Ondrej ^a   Lin, Yeqiang ^b   Kerstetter, Deborah ^b  

^a NHTV BREDA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

diary study; emotions; happiness; longitudinal; subjective well being

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TOURIST DESTINATION;

EID: 84873951320     PISSN: 00472875     EISSN: 15526763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0047287512465961     Document Type: Article

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