Shopping is truly a joy

Some groups of consumers derive great pleasure from shopping; we refer to this as hedonic shopping value. This study contributes to the current literature by establishing construct equivalence in a cross-culture study and testing the relationship of positive and negative price cues with hedonic shopping value. We investigated this concept using confirmatory factor analysis to test equivalence between the two cultures on six dimensions of price and hedonism. Results indicate that the two-group path equality provided acceptable results (chi-square?=?203.92 with 217 df, p?=?0.73; GFI?=?0.94). This indicated that the six dimensions of the price construct and hedonic shopping values are the same for the two countries. Therefore, we proceeded to test the hypotheses. As expected, neither of the two positive dimensions of price was significantly related to hedonic shopping value. Two of the four negative price cues, price mavenism and value consciousness, were positively related to hedonic shopping value.