环境影响诉求对绿色购买意愿的影响机制研究——消费者CSR内部动机感知的中介作用和自我建构的调节作用

本文运用实验的方法研究不同环境影响诉求对绿色购买意愿的影响机制.实证结果表明,相对于企业影响诉求,面对个人影响诉求时消费者的购买意愿更高.消费者自我建构调节了环境影响诉求对绿色购买意愿的影响.面对个人影响诉求时,与依存型消费者相比,独立型消费者的绿色购买意愿更强;面对企业影响诉求时,与独立型消费者相比,依存型消费者的绿色购买意愿更强.同时,消费者对企业的CSR内部动机感知在环境影响诉求和自我建构对消费者绿色购买意愿的影响中起到部分中介作用.     

社会化媒体中消费者的自我建构、顾客价值与沉浸体验

社会化媒体使消费者体验到独特的顾客价值,所以有必要对社会化媒体中顾客价值的前因后果进行研究.针对532名社会化媒体消费者为样本的网络问卷调查发现,消费者的自我建构对其顾客价值具有积极的影响,而顾客价值对消费者的沉浸体验具有积极的影响.即当拥有较高的相依型自我建构时,消费者会体验到更多的社交价值和内容价值,而更多的社交价值和内容价值体验会提高他们的沉浸体验;当拥有较高的独立型自我建构时,消费者则会体验到更多的内容价值,而更多的内容价值体验也会提高他们的沉浸体验.这些发现全新诠释了社会化媒体中的顾客价值及其前因后果,不仅丰富了顾客价值理论,而且还对职业经理从事社会化媒体营销活动具有指导意义.     

基于孤独感的老年消费者价值共创行为研究——一个整合的框架北大核心CSSCI

孤独感作为老年群体较为普遍的心理现象,对其行为决策具有重要的影响。以往对于孤独感的研究多集中于医学及社会学领域,侧重于对孤独感的物理干预和临床治疗。而作为一种较为普遍的心理和生活体验,孤独感的内涵、特征、维度构成及复杂的心理运行规律并未得到有效剖解。本文突破以往研究的理论视阈局限,以消费领域中的价值共创行为为研究情境,尝试整合自我决定理论和依恋理论,探讨基于孤独感的老年消费者价值共创行为生成机制,分析应对策略在不同的价值共创行为选择中所发挥的中介作用,并探明感知时间约束在老年消费者价值共创行为中的调节作用,从而深入剖析老年消费者价值共创行为的产生过程,以期有助于厂商设计差异化的服务组合策略,激发老年群体的价值共创意愿。     

独处对网络冲动性购买行为的影响

现代社会人们的独处状态影响着日常消费需求。本文试图揭示独处与网络冲动性购买行为的关系,通过问卷调查法收集数据,运用层级回归分析法进行假设检验。研究结果表明：消极独处正向影响网络冲动性购买行为,积极独处负向影响网络冲动性购买行为,社交需求在其中起部分中介作用,独立型自我建构在积极独处与社交需求间起正向调节作用。本文不但丰富了独处和网络冲动性购买行为的研究,而且为电子商务企业的营销实践提供了有益的借鉴。     

认知与情感交互效应对消费者绿色购买意愿的影响

我国绿色消费市场发展动力不足,如何有效地激发消费者的绿色购买行为是促进绿色消费、实现可持续发展的重要因素。从认知因素与情感因素交互作用的角度,本文将环境参与度、绿色购买态度、环保自我效能感作为认知因素,积极情绪和消极情绪作为情感因素,探讨上述因素的交互效应对绿色购买意愿的影响。研究结果表明消费者的环境参与度能够影响消费者的绿色购买意愿,绿色购买态度和环保自我效能感在环境参与度和绿色购买意愿之间起中介作用;同时,情绪在环境参与度影响绿色购买意愿的机制中具有调节作用:绿色购买态度在积极情绪下对绿色购买意愿的影响并不显著,环境参与度仅能通过环保自我效能感的中介作用影响绿色购买意愿;环保自我效能感在消极情绪下对绿色购买意愿的影响不显著,环境参与度仅能通过绿色购买态度的中介作用影响绿色购买意愿。     

自我建构视角下消费者对定制化产品购买意愿研究

产品定制化是企业差异化战略的支撑点之一,消费者对定制化产品的购买意愿是决定该战略成功与否的重要因素.本文从消费者自我建构角度出发,研究不同自我建构类型的消费者在不同的价格下对定制化产品的购买意愿.结果表明,消费者自我建构类型与定制化产品购买意愿有显著的相关关系,并且商品价格对这一关系有调节作用.     

中国“80后”奢侈品牌消费的心理动因模型研究——基于自尊的调节作用

随着中国的全方位崛起,奢侈品消费领域异军突起,成为了不容小觑的经济力量。"80后"作为奢侈品牌市场消费主力军,其消费行为和消费心理将引领和决定奢侈品牌在中国市场的命运。本文从自我概念视角出发,深刻剖析了我国"80后"人群对于奢侈品牌购买意愿这一构念的形成机理。从自我建构的视角对奢侈品消费进行了深入的研究,并明晰了该领域消费者的动机差异。研究表明:个人导向动机多存在于独立自我占主导作用的消费者身上;其中个人导向动机的消费者其购买动机与购买意愿之间的联系与该个体的自尊水平无显著相关性,而社会导向动机的消费者其购买动机与购买意愿之间的联系与自尊水平却有显著的相关性。     

绿色属性中心性对消费者购买意愿的影响机制研究：产品类型的调节作用与收益感知的中介效应

以往关于产品绿色属性对消费者购买意愿影响的研究尚未达成一致结论。文章通过两个情境实验系统性地探讨了不同产品类型情境下产品绿色属性对消费者购买意愿的影响机制。结果表明，对于享乐型产品，高绿色属性中心性相较于低绿色属性中心性会激发消费者更强烈的购买意愿。对于实用型产品，低绿色属性中心性相较于高绿色属性中心性会激发消费者更强烈的购买意愿。此外，在享乐品情境下，自我表达收益在高绿色属性中心性提升消费者购买意愿的过程中起中介作用；在实用品情境下，环境功利收益在低绿色属性中心性提升消费者购买意愿的过程中起中介作用。     

价值共创产品的增值效应——基于心理所有权的中介模型

消费者参与价值共创日益普遍,不仅有利于厂商有效降低运营成本和增强口碑效应,而且给消费者带来更高的消费体验与心理满意度.同时,价值共创产品还会产生增值效应.通过两个实验进行研究,结果发现:价值共创产品会产生增值效应,促进性心理所有权在价值共创产品增值机理中起中介作用,自我建构在价值共创产品增值效应的形成中起调节作用.该研究结论不仅对丰富和完善价值共创理论、心理所有权理论及自我建构理论具有重要的理论意义,而且对厂商有效操作价值共创营销和提高消费者理性参与价值共创行为具有实际的参考价值.     

中断与接续:量化自我构建对生活方式绿色转变的影响机制研究

量化情景在消费者自我构建和绿色生活方式转变过程中的重要性不断增强,本文实证考察量化情景及由此产生的量化自我构建过程对消费者生活方式绿色转变的影响机制。实验一发现,量化情景比非量化情景促使消费者产生更强的生活方式绿色转变意愿;实验二发现,消费者对量化结果的感知不一致和自尊之间的交互作用显著影响消费者对非绿色生活方式的中断意愿。自主需要、能力需要和归属需要在非绿色生活方式中断意愿到绿色生活方式接续意愿的转变过程中产生显著的中介作用。本文结论能够为厂商的绿色产品推广和政府的绿色治理提供具有针对性的政策建议。     

Feelings that Make a Difference: How Guilt and Pride Convince Consumers of the Effectiveness of Sustainable Consumption Choices

A significant body of research concludes that stable beliefs of perceived consumer effectiveness lead to sustainable consumption choices. Consumers who believe that their decisions can significantly affect environmental and social issues are more likely to behave sustainably. Little is known, however, about how perceived consumer effectiveness can be increased. We find that feelings of guilt and pride, activated by a single consumption episode, can regulate sustainable consumption by affecting consumers’ general perception of effectiveness. This paper demonstrates the impact that guilt and pride have on perceived consumer effectiveness and shows how this effect rests on the ability of these emotions to influence perceptions of agency. After experiencing guilt or pride, consumers see themselves as the cause of relevant sustainability outcomes. The process of causal attribution associated with these emotions influences consumers’ use of neutralization techniques. Through the reduction in consumers’ ability to neutralize their sense of personal responsibility, guilt and pride positively influence perceived consumer effectiveness. The inability to rationalize-away their personal responsibility, persuades consumers that they affect sustainability outcomes through their decisions. The research advances our understanding of sustainable consumption and identifies a new avenue for the regulation of individual consumer behavior that has significant implications for the development of sustainable marketing initiatives.     

A brand preference and repurchase intention model: the role of consumer experience

Consumer brand preference is an essential step towards understanding consumer choice behaviour, and has therefore always received great attention from marketers. However, the study of brand preference has been limited to traditional marketing focusing on functional attributes to maximise utility. But now the shift to experiential marketing broadens the role of the brand from a bundle of attributes to experiences. Technological advancements have helped to increase the similarities between brand attributes and product commoditisation. Consequently, consumers cannot shape their preferences among brands using rational attributes only. They seek out brands that create experiences; that intrigue them in a sensorial, emotional and creative way. This study seeks to develop a model that provides an understanding of how brand knowledge and brand experience determine brand preference and to investigate its impact on brand repurchase intention. Accordingly, exploratory focus group discussions are employed followed by a survey of mobile phone users in Egypt. The findings provide insights into the relative importance of consumer perceptions on different brand knowledge factors in shaping brand preferences. It also demonstrates the significance of consumers’ experiential responses towards brands in developing their brand preferences that in turn influence brand repurchase intention. The model therefore offers managers a new perspective for building strong brands able to gain consumer preferences.     

The relationships among family and social interaction,loneliness, mall shopping motivation,and mall spending of older consumers

The study implemented 419 mall‐intercept interviews with people who are 55 or older in large malls in three metropolitan cities in the United States. The five subdimensions of mall‐shopping motivation of older consumers were identified under two dimensions: Consumption‐oriented mall‐shopping motivation (service consumption, value consumption, and eating) and experiential mall‐shopping motivation (diversion and aesthetic appreciation). The structural model revealed significant effects of social interaction, loneliness, and mall‐shopping motivations on mall spending. Outcomes suggest that a mall can be a place to reduce older consumers' loneliness and that retailers in the mall can attract and make older consumers spend more by emphasizing value consumption and service consumption. Results also provide the implication for mall developers that providing more experiential features and events in malls may attract more older consumers. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Pet‐related consumption as a consumer identity constructor

The objective of this paper was to analyse how pet‐related consumption can be connected to consumer identity construction. This objective is based on the idea that consumers use symbolic meanings from possessions to construct and communicate their identities. Objects of attachment have especially been found to be closely connected to the formation of consumer identity. Furthermore, it is often assumed that consumers struggle to maintain a true sense of self or personal identity while retaining a feeling of belonging and social identity. This may be portrayed through layers of identity, which are composed of personal identity, social identity and other people. Empirical research was conducted using focus groups to create individual collages. The findings indicated that pet‐related consumption was used in the following six ways to construct consumer identity: ‘character developer’, ‘source of well‐being’, ‘means to connect’, ‘status communicator’, ‘object of devotion’ and ‘intermediary’, all of which found their places in the layers of identity. Each of these ways of using pet‐related consumption was paired with one other so that the extremes formulated three dimensions in a consumers' identity construction: the personal dimension, the social dimension and the dimension of emotional attachment. In conclusion, it was proposed that consumer identity construction illustrated via pet‐related consumption as created within both social interactions with meaningful others and those three dimensions is multi‐levelled and multifaceted. The paper invites future research to study both identity construction and emotional attachment, being such multifarious phenomena, and to explore the dynamic interactions that may exist.     

Consumer anticipation: antecedents,processes and outcomes

ABSTRACT

Marketing managers use anticipation as a marketing tool, particularly for new or improved products, services or experiences. Academic interest in consumer anticipation has focused on its outcomes, especially effects on the forthcoming substantive consumption. However, inadequate attention has been given to consumer anticipation as a complex process per se. A systematic review of the literature arrives at a conceptual definition which sees consumer anticipation as a mental process by which consumers consider the physical, experiential, social, emotional or behavioural consumption outcomes that are expected to accrue to the self from a yet to be realised consumption decision or experience. Antecedents of consumer anticipation, its underlying mental processes and consequences are identified and discussed. Frameworks for operationalising consumer anticipation in practical contexts are discussed.     

Factors affecting non‐green consumer behaviour: an exploratory study among Chinese consumers

The purpose of this study was to explore the factors that affect a typical non‐green consumption behaviour among Chinese consumers. A conceptual framework was developed and an empirical study was conducted using a geographically diverse sample of Chinese consumers. Based on the consumer choice theory, the conceptual framework in the current study included both economic and non‐economic factors. Ten research hypotheses were developed under the framework. A survey was conducted among 600 consumers in four cities in China in 2013. Confirmatory factor analysis and hierarchical regression analysis were used for hypothesis testing. The empirical results showed that consumer preference, reference groups, and face perception have a significantly positive effect on the consumers’ non‐green consumption behaviour; whereas budget constraints and social responsibility consciousness have a significantly negative effect on the consumers’ non‐green consumption behaviour. Furthermore, the current research demonstrated that the relationships between consumer non‐green behaviour and its four antecedents – budget constraint, reference groups, social responsibility consciousness and face perception – are significantly moderated by extravagant atmosphere; whereas the relationship between consumer non‐green behaviour and consumer preference is not moderated by extravagant atmosphere.     

Young consumers’ food preferences within selected sectors of the Hospitality Spectrum

In society, young consumers are influenced by an array of factors within their home, school and social environments. The adolescent period is one in which the individual becomes a more independent consumer, exerting increased degrees of independence and a subsequent freedom of preference. Such independence may be particularly apparent within the social environment, despite young consumers generally being categorized under the ‘family market’, within the Hospitality Spectrum. The aim of the study was to analyse young consumers’ food preferences within the home, school and social environments, with particular reference to the role of the Hospitality Spectrum. Young consumers for the study, are defined as being between 11 and 16 years, segmented into two age groups: 11–13 years and 14–16 years. The selected sectors of the Hospitality Spectrum which were studied, were the fast food service and school canteen sectors. In order to fulfil the research aim and objectives, a range of research instruments and analysis techniques were used. The results of the study to date would illustrate that tentative steps have been taken within the school and fast food sectors, to bridge the ‘gaps’ between business supply and consumer preferences. Gender differences were found in food selections within school canteens and fast food establishments, with females more likely to select ‘British’ styled fast foods at school and males more likely to select ethnic foods at fast‐food establishments. No significant differences were found between the two age segments. It is vital that the increasingly important role of the young consumer segment is recognized, in particular considering them as individuals rather than as a part of the ‘total’ family consumer package. However, in market segmentation young consumers are an important consumer group and it must not be overlooked that they will be the future adult consumers. The Hospitality Spectrum must therefore treat this group with respect for the consumer service industry to achieve its full potential. The results of this Northern Ireland study indicates that although the young consumer segment is viewed as important within the selected sectors of the Hospitality Spectrum, the extent of their full potential has yet to be recognized.     

基于现代女性视角的消费行为研究

众所周知,当今世界女性消费者已经成为市场上的消费主力军,在购买活动中起着举足轻重的作用。女性的社会消费在当前的消费大潮中正在从温饱型消费向发展型、享受型消费发生着根本性变化。女性作为社会消费的一个特殊群体,有着不同于社会其他消费群体的消费心理和消费行为,其随着社会的发展而发生了重大变化,表现出更趋于个性化和高级化等多方面特点。在目前大部分市场处于饱和、竞争空前激烈的情况下,认真研究并探索现代女性独特消费心理特点以及消费行为的变化,能够为企业制定有效地营销策略,提供有益的建议,成为市场上最具潜力的竞争企业。     

Nostalgia and consumer preference for indulgent foods: The role of social connectedness

Prior qualitative research suggests a strong association between nostalgia and indulgent food consumption. Nonetheless, these qualitative findings do not explain the causal relationship between nostalgia and indulgent food consumption, or the mechanism underlying this relationship. To this end, the authors conduct four studies and show that highly nostalgic consumers have greater preference for indulgent foods. This relationship is mediated by social connectedness, whereby high (low) nostalgia works through high (low) social connectedness to increase (decrease) consumers’ preference for indulgent foods. This effect is moderated by eating companions, such that the effect of nostalgia on consumers’ preference for indulgent foods would be strengthened (vs. weakened) when eating with friends (vs. with strangers or alone). These findings have significant implications on consumer well‐being and policy‐making pertaining to consumer health.     

Why Do We Buy Traditional Foods?

Consumer behavior toward traditional specialties varies according to the cultural context of consumption. It thus becomes crucial to develop marketing strategies that target segments with different levels of familiarity with food. Our article purposes to analyze the purchase drivers of traditional foods known to consumers because of their reiterated consumption. The importance of the product’s attributes, the purchasing motivations, and the information channels are studied by applying the CUB model, which utilizes a probabilistic structure that simulates the individual’s psychological mechanism in adopting a choice of preference. The case study is that of extra-virgin olive oil in Italy, where this product is a fundamental element of the culinary tradition. The results show that in the ambit of traditional specialties, in contexts of elevated familiarity, the traditional information channels of marketing are less effective and call for strategies based on a more direct connection between consumer and producer.