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Title: Daily Travel Behavior and Emotional Well-Being: A Comprehensive Assessment of Travel-Related Emotions and the associated trip and personal factors
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Publication Year: 2017
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Abstract: Emotional well-being has become an important societal goal given the rising evidence from psychology research that positive emotions have long-lasting benefits for human development. Although daily travel behavior has been found to influence emotional well-being, existing research in the field has focused on limited travel behavior dimensions such as travel mode and/or travel duration. Other dimensions such as travel purpose and travel companionship have received limited attention. Using data from the 2012-2013 American Time Use Survey, this paper offers a comprehensive assessment of how various trip- and personal-level factors relates to various positive and negative emotions. Results show that both positive and negative emotions are shaped in various ways by the mode, duration, purpose, and companionship characteristics of a trip. Of the modes examined, biking is the happiest mode; public transit is the least happy, least meaningful, and most tiresome mode; and utilitarian walking for transportation is strongly associated with negative motions. Long travel (>45 Mins) is the least happy and most tiresome and stressful. While short travel (<15 mins) is the least tiresome and stressful, it is also the least meaningful. Travel purpose shows strong associations with both positive and negative emotions. Travel for discretionary purposes such as leisure, exercise, and community activities is associated with higher levels of positive emotions and lower levels of negative emotions than travel for work or household maintenance. Travel companionship shows significant associations with positive emotions but limited associations with negative emotions. Travel with family members (except parents) and/or friends is the happiest. Besides trip-level factors, personal demographics, health conditions, and residential locations play significant roles in predicting travel-related emotions. During trips, immigrants and low-income people tend to experience more intensive emotions regardless of positive or negative. Implications of these findings for transportation policy and future research directions are discussed.
Url: https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/185433
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Authors: Zhu, Jing; Fan, Yingling
Publisher: University of Minnesota
Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS, IPUMS Time Use - ATUS
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