The importance of anticipated emotions in the intention to do the Camino de Santiago

Abstract

The fundamental objective of this work is to ascertain the importance of emotions in the intention of doing the Camino de Santiago. The sample comprises 312 subjects from Europe and the Americas aged between 18 and 80 years. The results show that positive anticipated emotions emerge as a variable to be taken into account within the explanatory model, since they increase its predictive capacity (∆R2 = 1.6%) and the relationship thereof is also direct and significant with intent (β =.09).