Parental style and consumer socialization among adolescents: A cross-cultural investigation |
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Authors: | Zhiyong Yang Chankon Kim Michel Laroche Hanjoon Lee |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Marketing, University of Texas at Arlington, Box 19469, 701S. West Street, Arlington, TX 76019, United States;2. Department of Marketing, Saint Mary''s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3C3, Canada;3. Royal Bank Distinguished Professor of Marketing, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve West, Montréal, QC H3G 1M8, Canada;4. School of Business, Hanyang University, 17 Haengdang-dong, Seongdong-gu, Seoul 133, Republic of Korea |
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Abstract: | The paper examines how parental style affects consumer socialization in a cross-national context, focusing on family communication orientation, adolescents' use of influence strategies, susceptibility to peer influence, and impulse buying tendency. Multiple-informant data from each family (i.e., father, mother, and adolescent) are used in the analysis. The findings suggest that Chinese adolescents, compared with their Canadian counterparts, use less bilateral influence strategies (reasoning, bargaining), but more unilateral influence strategies (playing on emotions, stubborn persuasion); they are also less susceptible to peer influence, and have less impulse buying tendency. Across both cultures, authoritarian parents are more socio-oriented than authoritative, permissive, and neglectful parents, whereas authoritative and permissive parents are more concept-oriented than authoritarian and neglectful parents. Furthermore, adolescents with authoritative and permissive parents more likely use bilateral influence strategies than those with authoritarian parents, while adolescents with neglectful parents use more unilateral influence strategies than those with other parental styles. These findings provide novel insights on market segmentation and international marketing practices. |
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Keywords: | Parental style Socialization Influence strategies Family communication orientation Susceptibility to peer influence Impulse buying tendency Cross-national |
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