碩士 / 華梵大學 / 工業工程與經營資訊學系碩士班 / 100 / Working holiday is a new type of travelling. According to the statistics from Australian Commerce and Industry Office, the number of people coming to Australia on working holiday had soard from 739 in 2005 to 10,188 in 2010. This phenomenon reveals that the number of participants in overseas working holiday has increased gradually and has attracted research attention.
This paper explores factors influencing the young’ intention to take part in overseas working holidays and takes three countries- Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom as examples. The focus will be on individual characteristics (age and work experience), personality traits (neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness), and perceived risk (“environmental and social risk” and “agent and work place risk”) and analyze their influence on young peoples'
intention to participate in overseas working holiday.
Australia is the first country which offers working holiday to young people from Taiwan and is currently the most well-known. In addition, according to statistics from the U.S. Department of State, Taiwan ranked fifth among countries with international students in US in 2011. This reveals young people's preference to study in the US. Furthermore, the United Kingdom only recently allowed people from Taiwan to take working holiday, and this decision has attracted much attention. This study consequently takes the three countries of Australia, US, and UK as research subjects.
The sample consists of young workers and students at universities of north in Taiwan, with age ranging from 18 to 31. A total of 300 questionnaires were issued, and 204 valid questionnaires were recovered, with a recovery rate of 68%. Then, multiple regressions were employed for hypothesis testing.
The results of the study indicate that the factors influencing young people's intention to take part in working holiday in different countries were not entirely the same:
1. Age has significant negatively impact on the intention to take part in working holiday in Australia, US and UK; but work experience also has significant positively impact on the intention to take part in working holiday in Australia and US.
2. Neuroticism has significant negatively impact on the intention to take part in working holiday in US and UK; on the contrary, extraversion also has positively significant impact on the intention to take part in working party in US and UK; agreeableness also has positively significant impact on the intention to take part in working holiday only in Australia; surprisingly, no significant relationships were found between openness to experience, conscientiousness and the intention to take part in working holiday in Australia, US and UK.
3. “Environmental and social risk” and “agent and work place risk” are both negatively related to the intention to take part in working holiday in UK.
This study provides suggests for agents to increase the number of people to participate in overseas working holiday; for example, agents could provide information to in-school students, assess the suitability of their personality traits to various countries, and provide individualized itineraries, enabling students to obtain the newest and most accurate information while they are still busy studying, and helping them get ready for life after graduation. Besides, agents should strive to establish a good brand reputation, and thereby increase trust among travelers. From a research perspective, this study can also fill up the absence of studies in this area related to overseas working holiday about individual characteristics, personality traits and perceived risk.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/100HCHT0041008 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Li-Chun Chen, 陳俐君 |
| Contributors | Cheng-Ling Tai, 戴正玲 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 95 |
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