%0 Journal Article
%T Measuring adolescents¡¯ tourism satisfaction: The role of mood and perceived parental style
%A Heike Sch£¿nzel
%A Mercede Shavanddasht
%J Tourism and Hospitality Research
%@ 1742-9692
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1467358417751024
%X Adolescents have become an attractive market for tourism because they represent a sizeable population segment with an increasing influence on family purchases. There is an urgent need to understand adolescents¡¯ needs, motivations, and role in the tourism industry, particularly the factors that may affect their tourism satisfaction. This study highlights the importance of adolescents¡¯ mood and the style in which they have been parented as under-researched factors affecting young people¡¯s tourism satisfaction. The focus of the study is Ali Sadr cave, a well-known tourist destination for families in Iran. In 2016, questionnaires were distributed to 360 tourists ranging in age from 11 to 18 years. Descriptive statistics, Pearson¡¯s correlation analysis, and multiple regressions were run on the 354 useable responses. Results showed, firstly, that 60.2% of the respondents had high levels of satisfaction with mean scores above 3.5 for all items. Secondly, the dominant parenting style, as perceived by the adolescents, was authoritative. Finally, there was a significant and positive relationship between authoritative parenting style and positive mood in relation to adolescents¡¯ basic needs satisfaction. Authoritarian parenting style and negative mood had a significant and negative relationship with the satisfaction of all three basic needs, namely autonomy, competence, and relatedness. Permissiveness had a positive relationship with only two of the needs ¨C autonomy and relatedness
%K Parental style
%K adolescent
%K tourism satisfaction
%K mood
%K self-determination theory
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1467358417751024