Evaluating the People‐Oriented, Place‐Oriented and Self‐Oriented Factors in Predicting Residents' Emotional Solidarity With Tourists

ABSTRACT This study integrated three concepts of people‐oriented, place‐oriented, and self‐oriented factors to predict residents' emotional solidarity. A sample of 453 Macau residents revealed that people‐oriented factors have the greatest predictive power on residents' emotional solidarity, followed by place‐oriented and self‐oriented factors. Regarding the dimensions of the three factors, the interaction of the people‐oriented factors, community commitment of the place‐oriented factors, and agreeableness of the self‐oriented factors provide the greatest predictive power on emotional solidarity among their categories. However, different dimensions of the three factors have different effects on the three subconstructs of emotional solidarity. This study contributes to our knowledge by understanding the functions of various components of oriented factors in building the elements of resident‐tourist emotional bonds.