Characteristics and mechanism of emotional dynamics of cycling tourists around Qinghai Lake
Dynamic emotional experience in flow is the key to shaping place meaning.By using the mixed-methods approach and targeting tourists'cycling around Qinghai Lake,this paper aims to reveal the character-istics of emotional dynamics of cycling tourists.Furthermore,by constructing and using a three-dimensional analytical framework of"location-locale-emotion",which is based on John Agnew's place theory and the Landscape Perception Theory,this paper also aims to identify the mechanism of how such emotional dynamics occur.Two types of data were obtained during three participatory field trips,together with cycling tourists'around Qinghai Lake,which lasted for 18 days,i.e.,between 4th July and 21st July.The first type of data was collected from 50 cycling tourists'via questionnaire surveys using the PANAS scale(i.e.,9 positive and 9 neg-ative emotion items),which recorded each cycling tourist's 18 emotions in each of the ten nodes of the cycling itinerary,presenting a total of 9000 emotional records;while the second data was collected through in-depth in-terviews with 18 cycling tourists during these three participatory field trips.The quantitative data collected via questionnaire survey were used to calculate various emotional index,such as the emotional variability,emo-tional instability,and emotional diversity,to present the characteristics of emotional dynamics of cycling tour-ists.Meanwhile,the qualitative data collected via interview were coded by using Nvivo 12 to help identify the mechanism of how such emotional dynamics occur.The findings are as follows:1)Regarding intensity,both the variability and instability of cycling tourists'positive emotions are higher than that of cycling tourists'neg-ative emotions,and the numerical intervals are also higher,indicating that the fluctuation degree of positive emotional intensity is more obvious,and the differences among cycling tourists regarding the fluctuation de-gree is also greater.2)In terms of diversity,the changes of cycling tourists'negative emotional diversity,com-pared with positive emotional diversity,is most obvious during the journey;cycling tourists experience the most complicated negative emotions at the beginning of their journey,while they experience the most complic-ated positive emotions at the end of their journey.3)The unique location features provide cycling tourists with differentiated experiences between places,while the locale features offer specific methods for place perform-ances and place experience.Together,location and locale features constantly cause cycling tourists to have pos-itive and negative emotions and make them change in terms of intensity and variety.With the changes of time and space,the cold road space is transformed by cycling tourists into a special place with rich and changeable human emotions.
cycling touristsemotional dynamicsemotional variabilityemotional instabilityQinghai Lake
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维普
