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Title: | Understanding Chinese girlfriend getaways : an interdependence perspective | Authors: | Chen, X Mak, B |
Issue Date: | Mar-2020 | Source: | Annals of tourism research, Mar. 2020, v. 81, 102878 | Abstract: | The Chinese word guimi refers to a female's best same-sex friend. The guimi holiday of Chinese women, as a sub-segment of girlfriend getaways, has not yet been well addressed in the existing literature. This study extends interdependence theory, a social psychological theoretical framework for examining dyads and small groups, to the study of Chinese female tourists undertaking girlfriend getaways. The findings from 35 travel blogs reveal that Chinese girlfriend getaways demonstrate two types of power relations: power over and power to. The blogs exemplify four types of mutual dependence: skill, time, knowledge, and psychological dependence; as well as three types of conflict: cognitive, process-related, and relationship-related conflict. | Keywords: | Chinese girlfriend getaways Dyads Guimi Interdependence theory Travel blogs |
Publisher: | Pergamon Press | Journal: | Annals of tourism research | ISSN: | 0160-7383 | EISSN: | 1873-7722 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.annals.2020.102878 | Rights: | © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. © 2020 This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ The following publication Chen, X., & Mak, B. (2020). Understanding Chinese girlfriend getaways: an interdependence perspective. Annals of Tourism Research, 81, 102878 is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2020.102878. |
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