The aim of this study is to empirically verify the relationships between innovativeness perception of and involvement in sports products, and hedonic value, product attitude and purchase intention through the structural equation model. For this purpose, this study conducted a questionnaire survey of 291 college students in Chungcheong region. Sampling method was Quota Sampling Mode, and questionnaire has been structured to be self-administerd type. SPSSWIN Ver. 21.0 and AMOS 18.0 have been used for data processing. As a result, first, it was found that innovativeness perception had a positive influence on hedonic value; second, innovativeness perception had a positive influence on product attitude; third, product involvement had a positive influence hedonic value; fourth, product involvement had a positive influence on product attitude; fifth, hedonic value had a positive influence on purchase intention; sixth, product attitude had a positive influence on purchase intention. Such results imply that it's not desirable to overlook the level of innovativeness perception & involvement from a corporate perspective when an enterprise develops and launches new sports products.
The objective of the current study is to empirically reveal the impact of self-recognized group cohesiveness and interpersonal susceptibility (normative interpersonal susceptibility and informative interpersonal susceptibility) on mountain bikers’ attitude toward name brand and purchase intents using structural equation model. In order to achieve this goal, the researchers surveyed 217 mountain bikers in six mountain bikers’ clubs in Chungcheong-do province area in South Korea. In order to validate the proposed structural model, SPSSWIN version 21.0 and AMOS 18.0 were utilized. The results showed that first, group cohesiveness had a positive influence on the bikers’ normative and informative interpersonal susceptibility. Second, normative and informative interpersonal susceptibility positively influenced attitude toward name brand. Third, normative interpersonal susceptibility did not positively influence the purchase intent, but informative interpersonal susceptibility did. Fourth, attitude toward name brand positively influenced the purchase intent.
