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- MakaleYalnız künye2026Paranormal Health Beliefs in Travel Motivation and Experiences: The Case of Gırnavaz Jinn
Şimşek Evren, Emine
This study was conducted to determine the travel motivations and experiences of paranormal health tourists. In the study, the Gırnavaz Mound in Mardin/Türkiye, where the tomb of the leader of the first Muslim jinn is located, was analyzed. The data were collected with semi-structured interviews conducted with 15 visitors and 2 religious officials. Four main themes and six subthemes were identified during the manual content analysis process. The main themes were named “Paranormal Story: Healing Jinn,” “Motivation for Paranormal Health Tourism,” “Paranormal Health Tourism Experiences,” and “Sense of Healing: Placebo.” Findings reveal that paranormal health tourists are motivated by feelings of helplessness and belief. Their experiences are shaped by ritual participation and shared emotional exchanges with others. The peak experience—encountering a jinn leader in a dream—can be disrupted by environmental factors. Those who reach the peak experience feel a sense of healing that can be attributed to the placebo.
- MakaleAçık Erişim2022The Moderator Role of Income in the Effect of Commitment to Organization and Supervisor on Job Performance: A Research on Hotel Kitchen Workers
Şimşek Evren, Emine; Çakıcı, A. Celil
The aim of the study is to determine the moderator role of the commitment to the chef in\rthe relationship between the organizational commitment of the employees and their job\rperformance in institutionalized hotel kitchens. In this context, data were collected from\rthe kitchen staff of one of the national chain hotels in March-April 2019, using the survey\rtechnique (n=124). According to the findings, commitment to the supervisor and the\rorganization has significant positive effects on job performance. While the moderator role\rof income is significant in the relationship between organizational commitment and job\rperformance; it is not significant in the relationship between commitment to the supervisor\rand job performance. Employees with a high commitment to the chef show high\rperformance regardless of their income level. Organizational commitment, on the other\rhand, increases the job performance of the below-average income group, but does not create\ra significant increase in the above-average income group. Within the scope of\rorganizational commitment dimensions, the moderator role of income is significant in the\rrelationship between continuance commitment and job performance; while it is not\rsignificant in the relationship between normative-affective commitments and job\rperformance. As normative and affective commitments increase, job performance also\rincreases independently of income. On the other hand, as the continuance commitment\rincreases, the job performance of those with below-average income increases; job\rperformance of those with above-average income declines.
- MakaleYalnız künye2020Moderating effect of optimum stimulation level on the relationship between satisfaction and revisit intention: the case of Turkish cultural tourists
Evren, Savaş; Şimşek Evren, Emine; Çakıcı, A. Celil
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine the optimum stimulation levels (OSLs) of cultural tourists within the context of their novelty seeking tendencies and to determine whether their OSLs have a moderating effect on the relationship between their satisfaction and revisit intentions. Design/methodology/approach: To collect data, an online survey was conducted for Turkish cultural tourists (n = 563) in May 2018, and the data were analysed with PROCESS by Hayes. Findings: The study’s findings demonstrated that Turkish cultural tourists were high-level novelty seekers and that novelty seeking has a moderating effect on the relationship between their satisfaction and short-term revisit intentions. Originality/value: This study contributes to the literature by revealing the moderator effect of novelty seeking tendency on the relationship between satisfaction and revisit intention within the scope of cultural tourism, which has not been examined before.
- MakaleAçık Erişim2019Novelty Seeking Levels and Cultural Destination Preferences of Academician Cultural Tourists
Şimşek Evren, Emine; Evren, Savaş; Çakıcı, Abdulcelil
Novelty seeking is one of most important subjects in terms of understanding of tourist motivations and behaviors. In the literature review, it has been observed that the subject of novelty seeking is evaluated in terms of some other types of tourists. However, it is not evaluated in terms of cultural tourists whose one of the main motivations is the novelty seeking. At this point the main purpose of this study is to determine novelty seeking levels of domestic cultural tourists, and to ascertain destination choice differences between cultural tourist clusters with different novelty seeking levels. In this context, the novelty seeking scale developed by Assaker et al., (2011, 2013, 2014) was applied to measure novelty seeking levels of participants, and the survey was conducted on the sample of academician cultural tourists. Data collection activities were conducted online in May 2018, and 563 people were reached as sampling. Descriptive analysis, factor analysis, cluster analysis and ANOVA were applied to the data gathered. Results revealed that the novelty seeking scale has two-dimensional structure, and academician cultural tourist have very high level of novelty seeking tendency. Moreover, it is determined that academician cultural tourist could be clustered as medium, high and very high novelty seekers, and there are differences between these clusters especially in terms of foreign destination choice.