| Family travel,a way to bring families closer together,has become an important way to travel and accounts for approximately 30% of the leisure travel market.As a special form of family tourism,adult child-parent travel has become an important way for adult children to express their filial piety,as it meets the needs of both adult children and elderly parents for companionship and family togetherness.Family travel is always imagined as a happy time full of joy and bliss that not only helps to increase the knowledge and create pleasant memories,but also enhance family bonds and improve family member well-being.Prior research has largely focused on the positive effects of adult children traveling with their parents,its negative effects on parents’ well-being remain underexplored.However,travel planning is a complex decision-making process that requires the joint participation of adult children and their senior parents.Adult children and their parents with different habits,values and consumption patterns will inevitably encounter various disagreements and contradictions during the trip.Although some qualitative studies have analyzed the causes,manifestations and coping methods of conflicts,the negative consequences of family travel conflict have not been explored in depth,so it is necessary to conduct empirical studies to verify the damaging effects of intergenerational conflict on family functions and family members’ well-being.The empirical results show that:(1)intergenerational conflict has a negative impact on parental travel satisfaction,subjective well-being,self-efficacy and family intimacy;(2)parents’ self-efficacy and family intimacy both Based on the research progress of family tourism and intergenerational conflict.First of all,this study has a preliminary understanding of the intergenerational conflict phenomenon,identify the manifestations of intergenerational conflict and its possible negative impact on the parents during the adult child-parent travel through text analysis of network ethnography.Then,by combing the relevant literature,clarifying the connotation of the concept of variables,combining theories such as the solidarity-conflict model,expectancy disconfirmation theory and bottom-up spillover theory,constructs the relationship model of this study and puts forward corresponding research hypotheses.Finally,the hypothesis model was empirically tested using SPSS 22.0 and AMOS 24.0 by collecting data from 411 senior parents who had experienced family travel through the questionnaire method.have positive impact on their travel satisfaction;(3)parents’ travel satisfaction positively affects their subjective well-being;(4)family intimacy at the family level positively affects their self-efficacy at the individual level;(5)self-efficacy→travel satisfaction and family intimacy→travel satisfaction play a serial mediating role between intergenerational conflict and subjective well-being.This study reveals the negative impact of adult child-parent travel,breaks the stereotype of family travel as a pleasurable travel experience,clarifies the internal impact mechanism of intergenerational conflict on parents’ subjective well-being,and enriches the research scope of intergenerational relationship and family travel.The findings of this study help adult children better choose tourism products,help their parents build self-confidence and relieve tensions in unusual environments,and provide practical guidance for destination organizations to develop filial travel,happy tour for parents and other tourism products in practice. |
