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This study examined associations between financial perceptions and financial behaviors among four marital/gender groups (e.g., married men, married women, single men, and single women). Descriptive results show significant differences in financial perceptions and financial behaviors across the groups. Specifically, single women reported significantly higher levels of perceived dissatisfaction and too much debt than the other three groups. Using OLS regression analysis, we found that compared to single women, married men, married women, and single men practiced higher levels of healthy financial behaviors. This study informs that financial education programs should be effective across marital and gender groups.

This study demonstrates a netnographic study to investigate airline service failure types and to test differences of linguistic patterns among complaint types on social media user comments. User comments in an airline's Facebook community were scraped and service failure types were systematically classified with the measurement developed by thematic coding and literature review. The results presented frequently occurring service failure categories in airline service operations. A T-Test was conducted to confirm the significant differences in linguistic characteristics between complaint comments and non-complaint comments. Word frequency analysis showed distinctive word themes between the two comment groups. Research and managerial implications were provided.

The scientific literature regarding ethnocentrism is quite extensive in the fields of marketing, politics and psychology; however, in the realm of tourism it is barely mentioned and there is even less research. This study intends to fill the current bibliometric void in terms of the relationship between ethnocentrism and tourism. Its main goal is to display qualitative and quantitative analysis of ethnocentrism and tourism research from 1991 until September 2022, which enables an inventory of its scientific production. The results show the need for extensive intercultural research in order to obtain a more extensive view of tourist ethnocentrism.

We explored the relationships between the big 5 personality traits (i.e., openness, consciousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism), morality amid the pandemic, and intentions for shopping online and in-store. Conducting an online survey with the U.S. national sample (n = 490) and analyzing the data through structural equation modeling, we found that consciousness, agreeableness, and neuroticism positively influenced morality; extraversion negatively influenced morality; conscientiousness positively influenced and openness and extraversion negatively influenced the intentions for online shopping; extraversion positively influenced and neuroticism negatively influenced in-store shopping intentions. Morality and personality traits are important in shaping intentions for shopping online and in-store amid the pandemic.

This study examines how three-dimensional virtual fitting room (VFR) stimuli can influence older adults' spatial visualization abilities. A total of 821 adults aged 60 and older participated in the online study. Paper folding tests were administered before and after exposure to interactive, screen-based VFR stimuli. The results showed that the stimuli led to greater training gains in the experimental group. Lower pre-test scores were predictive of a greater training gain and there was no gender difference in the training gain. Findings contribute to providing strategies to positively influence spatial visualization abilities for older adults using the VFR stimuli.

The recent COVID-19 pandemic experience intensified the significance of hygiene in the service industry. It is crucial to measure how service practice adaptations and technology adoptions in servicescapes have been perceived by customers regarding hygiene in the post-COVID-19 era. However, the extant hygiene scales do not serve the purpose to measure hygiene contributions of technology-specific and service practice-specific changes. Thus, the purpose of this research was to develop a multi-item unidimensional perceived hygiene construct. Sequential mixed-methods research (Qual-Quan) was employed. Participants were sampled among restaurant patrons. A four-item perceived hygiene development (pHd) construct was successfully developed. Hospitality and service researchers and practitioners can utilize this scale to measure perceived hygiene improvements of particular technology adoptions and service practice adaptations in service settings.

This study aimed to improve Canada's preparedness to rejuvenate the economy in public health crises by understanding how potential tourists acquire knowledge using the cognitive mediation model. We examined the effect of media motivations (i.e., surveillance gratification and anticipated interaction) in predicting two types of subjective knowledge (i.e., pandemic knowledge and travel health knowledge) through the mediation of media attention and elaboration. The study results supported all hypotheses except for the relationships between surveillance gratification and media attention, and media attention and travel health knowledge. This study provides implications for destination marketing organizations to understand Canadians' travel decisions during the pandemic.