1Dept. of Health, Counseling and Welfare, Hanseo University, Korea
2Dept. of Life Long Education, Hanseo University, Korea
*Corresponding Author: Ha Young Jang Research Scholar, Department of Lifelong Education, Hanseo University, 31962 Korea, besof@hanmail.net
Online published on 16 October, 2018.
The purpose of this study was to identify the mediating effects of growth mindset and hope between tourism experience and psychological well-being of 299 Korean workers. SPSS Win 23.0 was used for descriptive statistics analysis, reliability analysis, and correlation analysis of the major variables. AMOS Win 23.0 was used for structural equation analysis. The results of this study are as follows. First, there was a statistically significant correlation between tourism experience and growth mindset, hope, and psychological well-being except for some sub-factors. Second, hope and growth mindset showed double mediating effects between tourism experience and psychological well-being. In other words, tourism experience has a direct impact on well-being and indirectly through the set of hopes and growth minds. These results can be applied to enhance the well-being of workers through tourism experience.
Tourism experience, Well-being, Growth mindset, Hope, Mediating effect, Worker
