Browsing UiS Brage by Author "Larsen, Svein"

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    • Attitudes, efficacy beliefs, and willingness to pay for environmental protection when travelling 

      Doran, Rouven; Hanss, Daniel; Larsen, Svein (Journal article, 2015)
      Environmental sustainability may be seen as a collective challenge that can only be met if a sufficient number of individuals cooperate. Whether or not individual tourists are willing to contribute their share may thus ...

    • Comparison between own and others’ travel motives: A research note 

      Doran, Rouven; Larsen, Svein; Wolff, Katharina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)
      This study examines the assumption that tendencies to dissociate oneself from other tourists relate to the desire to position own characteristics (using travel motives as an example) in a positive light. Results suggest ...

    • Complexity and Simplification in Understanding Travel Preferences Among Tourists 

      Øgaard, Torvald; Doran, Rouven; Larsen, Svein; Wolff, Katharina (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-10)
      Travel preferences are complex phenomena, and thus cumbersome to deal with in full width in diagnostic and strategic planning processes. The aim of the present investigation was to explore to what extent individual preferences ...

    • Different but similar: Social comparison of travel motives among tourists 

      Doran, Rouven; Larsen, Svein; Wolff, Katharina (Journal article, 2014)
      Although previous research suggests that people prefer to think of themselves as being authentic (or individualistic) travellers rather than stereotyped tourists, there have been few studies investigating the external ...

    • Emergency Release of Mooring Lines in the Barents Sea 

      Næss, Sigurd Vestbø (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IKM/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-06)
      With increasing offshore activities in the Barents Sea, the need for risk reducing measures will increase as well. In the Arctic, the weather can change rapidly and is characterized by being difficult to forecast. As a ...

    • How to define and measure risk perceptions 

      Wolff, Katharina; Larsen, Svein; Øgaard, Torvald (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-11)
      Research on risk perceptions within the tourism domain suffers from two closely related problems: diverging conceptual and measurement definitions. The lack of precision and standardization is hindering comparisons of ...

    • Intentions to make sustainable tourism choices: do value orientations, time perspective, and efficacy beliefs explain individual differences? 

      Doran, Rouven; Hanss, Daniel; Larsen, Svein (Journal article, 2016)
      There is a growing literature addressing psychological variables that can be associated with choices of environmentally sustainable tourism alternatives. This paper contributes to this literature by focusing on individual ...

    • The relative importance of social and personal norms in explaining intentions to choose eco-friendly travel options 

      Doran, Rouven; Larsen, Svein (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-03)
      Changes in current travel patterns are important in order to move towards a more sustainable future of tourism. This paper reports findings from a study ( N =762) investigating the relative importance of social and ...

    • What makes tourist experiences interesting 

      Larsen, Svein; Wolff, Katharina; Doran, Rouven; Øgaard, Torvald (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-08)
      Traditional tourist role theory implies that tourists are either novelty seekers or familiarity seekers, while the interaction-hypothesis-of-inherent-interest predicts that interestingness is maximal when novel and familiar ...

    • Worry and its correlates onboard cruise ships 

      Wolff, Katharina; Larsen, Svein; Marnburg, Einar; Øgaard, Torvald (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      The present study examined job-specific worry, as well as possible predictors of such worry, namely job-specific self-efficacy and supervisor dispositionism. 133 non-supervising crew members at different departments ...