Motivations to walk Jeju “Ollegil”, South Korea: development and validation of a walking motivation scale

ABSTRACT

The authors develop a scale to identify the factors that affect participation in a walking tour. The scale-development process consists of a literature review and personal interviews, followed by data collection through a survey of selected visitors to Jeju “Ollegil”, which is a well-known walking-tour destination in South Korea. These procedures yield a four-factor scale with acceptable levels of reliability and validity. Four underlying dimensions of participation in a walking tour are: (1) self-mind arrangement, as thinking about their surroundings on; (2) the desire for novelty, such as preferring to seek new environments; (3) the desire for achievement, such as completing a goal; and (4) a tendency toward self-introspection, that is, examining one's own thoughts or personal values.

KEYWORDS:

• Scale development
• motivations
• walking-tour
• validity

Acknowledgements

“But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold” (Job 23:10). We would like to thank God for His completing this paper for us and the two reviewers for their valuable comments on this paper.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.