Author(s)

PU Pian, YANG cheng, CHENG Li and XING Yun

Corresponding Author

CHENG Li

Abstract

Mountain adventure is an important part of outdoor sports. Since mountain outdoor sports is full of risk, it is valuable to study on the complex relationship between adventurers’ personality traits and decision-making. We administered a survey to collect the view of 383 adventurers in the Mount Si guniang Scenic Spot and used the fuzzy set comparative analysis method (fsQCA), The result revealed: low level adventure cognitive and low level self-confidence, low level self-center, and low level planning tendency led to low level adventure decision-making. High level uncertainty tendency and high level goal-oriented, based on the conditions of other antecedents in the causal recipe, served as both a positive and a negative indicator of adventure decision-making. Therefore, the effect of high level uncertainty tendency and high level goal oriented on adventure decision-making had certain complexity and uncertainty. This study also revealed that high level adventure decision-making person must be high level sensation seeking and low level process oriented. Low level adventure decision-making must had low level adventure cognitive and low level risk avoidance awareness. High level income and outdoor adventure enthusiast are more likely to make high level adventure decision and vice versa. While depending on the attributes of other antecedent, demographic variables such as gender, age, marital status, and education background, the causality effects are complex and uncertain.

Keywords

Outdoor adventure; Personality traits; Adventure decision-making; FsQCA