I am a leading psychologist on the psychology of exercise and health. I have published theoretical and empirical research on why some exercise while most don't. I recently published a theory of conscious-nonconscious processing and getting hard …

Current research: (1) Psychology of health and exercise and (2) psychology of human performance (e.g., psychological momentum). Research methods: experimental and non-experimental Theory building...

Iso-Ahola’s theory asserts that personal escape, personal seeking, interpersonal escape, and interpersonal seeking motivate tourism and recreation. This article operationalizes and empirically tests Iso-Ahola’s theory for similar tourism and recreation experiences.

1982年1月1日 · Psychologists/social psychologists generally agree that "a motive is an internal factor that arouses, directs and integrates a person's behavior" (Murray 1964:7).

2022年9月20日 · The commercial space flight industry has a vision for point-to-point space travel. The study aimed to assess the influence of the four dimensions of Iso-Ahola’s (1982) theory of tourism motivation on willingness to fly as a point-to-point suborbital space tourist.

Seppo Ensio Iso-Ahola, Finnish physical education educator. Recipient Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt award for excellence in recreation and park research National Recreation and Park Association, 1987, Charles Brighbill award University Illinois, 1987, Allan Sapora Research award University Illinois, 1993.

Iso Ahola’s motivation theory suggests that travel motivation is triggered by two factors; seeking (intrinsic rewards) and escaping (from routine/familiar environments). Both factors can be divided further into personal and interpersonal aspect (Iso-Ahola, 1984; Dunn Rose and Iso-Ahola, 1991).

Professor Iso-Ahola: Improved state of mind is critical, it is a goal and achievement in and of itself and a means for subsequent benefits, such as functional improvement. Improved state of mind refers to enhanced perceptions of self, increased sense …

Before delv- ing into the major motivations that encourage seniors to engage in adventure tourism, the following diagram explains the differences between seeking, and escaping from, the leisure...

1983年1月1日 · In this commentary I limit my remarks to the latter and briefly reconsider three points, namely: tourist motivation as multidisciplinary in perspective; tourist motivation as subject to intradisclinary differences; and methodological considerations.