Does understanding of pilgrimage routes elicit idealised emotional experiences through virtual reality walking?
公開日 2025年02月12日
国際観光学研究センター（CTR）客員フェローである伊藤 央二教授（中京大学）らによる共著論文が、学術誌「Rural Society」に掲載されました。
論文タイトル
Does understanding of pilgrimage routes elicit idealised emotional experiences through virtual reality walking?
著者
Eiji Ito, School of Health and Sport Sciences, Chukyo University, Toyota, Aichi, Japan
Shintaro Kono, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Kei Tanisho, Faculty of Health and Well-being, Kansai University, Sakai, Japan
Tsukasa Kawanishi, Department of Sports and Health Sciences, Chubu Gakuin University, Seki, Japan
書誌事項
Rural Society, 1–16, 2024
https://doi.org/10.1080/10371656.2024.2439156
* Scopus収録ジャーナル
https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/5600153488
要旨
The World Heritage pilgrimage routes known as Kumano Kodo have attracted both Japanese and international tourists to the rural area of Japan. By focussing on the two types of emotional experiences, namely awe and ideal affect, this research aims to investigate whether greater understanding of Kumano Kodo (a) influences awe experiences and (b) helps minimise ideal-actual positive affect discrepancies, when watching a virtual reality video of a Kumano Kodo walk. Through an experimental study involving a video, we found that greater understanding of Kumano Kodo neither significantly influenced awe experiences nor reduced the ideal-actual positive affect discrepancies. These null results are discussed in relation to the temporal aspect of awe in tourism contexts and the sources of tourism information-stimuli.
キーワード
Emotion, Forest, Psychology, Rural tourism, Virtual reality, Well-being, World heritage
