A Study on Relationships between Lifestyle and Clothing Shopping Orientation - Focused on Korean University Students -

라이프 스타일과 의복 쇼핑 성향과의 관계 연구 - 남녀 대학생을 중심으로 -

The purposes of this study are to investigate dimensions of lifestyle and clothing shopping orientation of university students as consumers in Korea and to analyze the relationships between lifestyle and clothing shopping orientation. The research method for this study is survey and subjects were 473 male and female university students. The questionnaire is consisted of measurement items for lifestyle, clothing shopping orientation, and demographic attributions. The data were analyzed by factor analysis, T-test, Pearson's correlation analysis, ANOVA and Duncan's multiple range test, using SPSS program. The results are as follows. First, 4 factors were emerged on lifestyle (achievement-oriented, economics-oriented, appearance-oriented and freedom/culture-oriented) and clothing shopping orientation had 4 factors (reasonable shopping, informational shopping, conspicuous shopping, and convenient shopping). Second, there were significant relationships between lifestyle and clothing shopping orientation. Especially, there were high positive relationship between economics-oriented lifestyle and reasonable shopping orientation, and appearance-oriented lifestyle and informational shopping orientation. Third, lifestyle and clothing shopping orientation had much differences by subjects' demographics attributions.