EFFECTS OF TOURISM ON PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING, POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Abstract

Quantitative information served as the foundation for this analysis. This study makes use of a correlational design, a non-experimental methodology for which the researcher observes multiple regression to determine the observable link between them, with almost no effort to control confounding factors. This study seeks to identify the good and negative repercussions of tourism on a variety of social and economic factors. Several methods are utilised to assess the impact of tourism in this study. Those tools are as follows: Ryff’s psychological well-being scale(Arnold, Nott & Meinhold, 2012), Positive youth development Inventory (Arnold, Nott & Meinhold, 2012), Scale of memorable tourism experience( Churchills, 1979), College Self Efficacy Scale (Owen and Froman, 1988). The present study was conducted to merge four different variables (tourism, psychological wellbeing, positive youth development and academic performance) in one domain and to assess the correlation between them. Sample of this study is 250 university students, out of which one hundred and fifty are male and one hundred and fifty are female. Results shows that bachelors students are high in positive youth development and masters students are high in tourism, psychological wellbeing and academic performance. There is a significant positive correlation between Tourism and positive youth development and significantly negative correlation of tourism with psychological wellbeing and academic performance. Positive youth development has a significantly negative correlation with psychological wellbeing and academic performance. Also, psychological wellbeing has a significantly positive correlation with academic performance. The data exposition of this study supported the hypothesis that tourism has positive effect on psychological wellbeing, positive youth development and academic performance.