Study on the Correlation between Family Life Circle and Travel Attitude: Taking Residents in Changsha for Example.

Family is the most important environmental background that forms travel attitude and has always been an important organized unit of travel activities. Exploring the correlation between family life circle and travel attitude is of great significance. Based on existing study results, the paper builds up family life circle model and formulates travel attitude scales, obtains basic data by investigating residents in Changsha. After adopting factor analysis, we extract five principal components of travel attitude: pursuing enjoyment, emphasizing on sanitation, valuing facilities, yearning for experiences and concerning about health in mind and body. After confirmatory factor analysis, correlation analysis and multiple factor regression analysis are used to explore the relationship between family life circle and the five components of travel attitude. The results indicate that with the evolution of family life circle, people tend to focus more on pursuing enjoyment, emphasizing on facilities and concerning about physical and mental health. People without nests pay less attention to facilities and physical and mental health than people in other stages. People in empty-nest stage and widowers concern more about their physical and mental health than people in other stages. People in full nests long for experiences more than people in other stages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]