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K.L. Andereck <strong>and</strong> N.G. McGehee 253<br />

Table 14.7. Model direct <strong>and</strong> indirect relationships for support for tourism based on <strong>the</strong><br />

Arizona study.<br />

Dependent<br />

variables<br />

Independent variables<br />

Direct effect<br />

(beta) Indirect effects Total effects<br />

Support for<br />

tourism<br />

Gender – −0.03 −0.03<br />

Age – 0.01 0.01<br />

Education – 0.03 0.03<br />

Visits to tourism area 0.12* 0.24 0.36<br />

Distance of residence 0.08* −0.01 0.07<br />

Live in area as child – −0.01 −0.01<br />

Tourism development – −0.09 −0.09<br />

Involvement – −0.03 −0.03<br />

Personal benefit 0.15* 0.31 0.46<br />

Community enhancement 0.38* – 0.38<br />

Community degeneration −0.13* – −0.13<br />

Economic improvement 0.31* – 0.31<br />

*p < 0.001.<br />

involvement variable as well as indirect effects of visit frequency, age <strong>and</strong><br />

distance of residence from <strong>the</strong> tourism area via personal benefit.<br />

Among <strong>the</strong> Arizona respondents, community degeneration is also predicted<br />

by age, benefit from tourism <strong>and</strong> level of community development but<br />

in <strong>the</strong> opposite direction from community enhancement. Having lived in <strong>the</strong><br />

area as a child also emerges in this model with those who did not live in <strong>the</strong> area<br />

during childhood being more likely to agree that tourism results in <strong>the</strong>se kinds<br />

of negative impacts. There are also indirect effects by visit frequency, age <strong>and</strong><br />

distance of residence via personal benefit.<br />

The positive attitude variable of economic improvement is explained by<br />

a number of variables in <strong>the</strong> Arizona study: education <strong>and</strong> age, with those<br />

having more education <strong>and</strong> being older feeling tourism results in economic<br />

improvement; frequency of visits to <strong>the</strong> tourism area, with those who visit<br />

more often being more likely to perceive economic improvements; distance<br />

of residence from <strong>the</strong> tourism area, with those living closer perceiving more<br />

economic improvement; <strong>and</strong> personal benefit from tourism, with those who<br />

perceive more benefit also feeling tourism results in economic improvement<br />

in <strong>the</strong> community. There are positive indirect effects by visitation frequency,<br />

distance of residence from <strong>the</strong> tourism area <strong>and</strong> negative indirect effects by<br />

age via personal benefit from tourism.<br />

Analysis of <strong>the</strong> last attitude construct of lifestyle costs in <strong>the</strong> Arizona<br />

study finds positive relationships with distance of residence from <strong>the</strong> tourism<br />

area of <strong>the</strong> community <strong>and</strong> level of tourism development. In o<strong>the</strong>r words,<br />

those who live far<strong>the</strong>r from <strong>the</strong> tourism area <strong>and</strong> those in communities with<br />

higher levels of tourism development in Arizona also tend to feel tourism<br />

has lifestyle costs. It is negatively related to age, whe<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> resident lived in

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