Ho Chi Minh City University of Social Sciences and Humanities

Rethinking transformative tourism: transcendence as the reconfiguration of self-world relations

Purpose Transformative tourism research has expanded rapidly, yet “transformation” remains conceptually diffuse and often conflates different depths of experiential change. This article reassesses how transformation has been theorized and advances a transcendent account of higher...

Psychometric validation of the Vietnamese Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a multi-site cross-sectional study

Anxiety and depression are common in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and are associated with poorer self-management and clinical outcomes. This study evaluated the measurement properties of the Vietnamese Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) in adults with T2DM. In this m...

When Negative Parenting Becomes More or Less Stressful: The Moderating Roles of Parental Empathy in Vietnamese Adolescents

Negative parenting is associated with adolescent maladjustment but less is known about its relation to stress symptoms specifically and the parental processes that may alter this association. This study examined whether negative parenting was associated with adolescent stress sym...

Dialogues in the dark: Reconceptualizing peak experience in night tourism through autoethnography

Night tourism is commonly examined through economic activity and entertainment consumption, while its emotional and introspective dimensions remain underexplored. This study investigates how nocturnal environments shape inner immersion and emotional processes that lead to peak ex...