Impact of personality traits and involvement on prior knowledge

Annals of Tourism Research

Volumn 48, Issue , 2014, Pages 42-57

  Huang, Liyuan ^a   Gursoy, Dogan ^b,c   Xu, Honggang ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Expertise; Familiarity; Involvement; Personality; Prior knowledge; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

FAMILIARITY; KNOWLEDGE; RISK PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA;

EID: 84902266679     PISSN: 01607383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2014.05.010     Document Type: Article

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