The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among purchasing tendencies, brand identification, consumer-brand relationships, and brand loyalty by analyzing structural equation model. A survey was conducted by using members(n=220) of 8 sport clubs located in Chungcheong Province. The data were recorded and analyzed using the SPSSWIN Ver. 21.0 and AMOS 18.0 to analyze the structural equation model. The findings of this study were as follows: First, brand purchasing had a significantly negative effect on brand identification. Second, rational purchasing was found to impact significantly on brand identification. Third, loyal purchasing did not show significant impact on brand identification. Firth, brand identification was found to significantly influence on brand love, brand interdependence, and brand loyalty. Fifth, brand love had no positive impact on brand loyalty. Finally, interdependence was found to impact significantly and positively on brand loyalty.
Purpose The purpose of this study was to empirically analyze the relationship between a sports-for-all club members self-esteem and self-determination, conspicuous consumption, ethical consumption, product identification, positive word of mouth & repurchase intention through structural equation model analysis. Methods For this purpose, this study set 279 members at the nine sports-for-all club located in national capital region as the research subjects. In an effort to verify the proposed structural model, this study used SPSSWIN Ver. 23.0 and AMOS 18.0. Results First, self-esteem had a positive effect on conspicuous consumption. Second, self-determination had a positive effect on ethical consumption. Third, conspicuous consumption had a positive effect on product identification. Fourth, ethical consumption had a positive effect on product identification. Fifth, product identification had a positive effect on positive word of mouth. Sixth, product identification didn’t had a positive effect on repurchase intention. Seventh, positive word of mouth had a positive effect on repurchase intention.
Purpose The purpose of this study was to analyze the propensity to consume the consumer of the baseball equipments who have difference of the product preference by regulatory focus, and who have construal level and suitable message framing. Methods Populations are consumers who have purchased the baseball equipments before, and the sampling groups, five different society baseball group’ league from Seoul and Kyeongi-do, were distributed, 318 copies, by convenience sampling. The questionnaire proceeded by three-way completely randomized design with stimulated sentences of four different advertisement compartmentalized by the regulatory focus, construal level and message framing. The analysis utilized SPSS 21.0 to perform the frequency analysis, manipulation check, independent t-test, two-way ANOVA, and Scheffe was used to post-hoc. Therefore, the result of this study is as below. Results First, after analyzing the distinction of the regulatory focus of the consumers of baseball equipments, the preference of the consumer who has improving focus was higher than that of consumer who has the prevention focus. Second, preference differentiation analyzed by construal level and the message framing of the consumer of the improving focus, the preference was higher when the message framing was positive, and the construal level was in short time. Third, preference differentiation analyzed by construal level and the message framing of the consumer of the prevetnion focus, there was no difference of the preference of the equipments followed by the construal level and message frame for prevention focus consumers.
Purpose The purpose of this study was to identify how the three variables of consumer confusion proneness affect consumers' negative emotion, word of mouth, trust and decision postponement during the process of purchasing golf club. Futhermore, this study looked through the moderating effect of the personal characteristics in the relation between consumer confusion proneness and negative emotion. Method A total of 850 questionnaires were used for data analyses(i.e., frequency analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling) with PASW 18.0 and AMOS 18.0. The results of the study are as follow. Results First, all of the subordinate factors of consumer confusion proneness had a significant effect on the consumer's negative emotion. Second, consumer's negative emotion had a significant effect on negative WOM. Third, consumer's negative emotion had no significant effect on distrust. Fourth, consumer's negative emotion had a significant effect on decision postponement. Fifth, the moderating role of negative effectivity partially had a significant influence in a relation ship between confusion proneness and negative emotion. Sixth, the moderating role of intolerance of uncertainty had a significant influence in a relation ship between confusion proneness and negative emotion. Conclusion The results of this study contributed to provide fundamental information on over all golf industry as in service providing point of view as well as development and application relate to it.
