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An Empirical Study on the Determinants of Trust for the Insurance Industry : a case of China

보험소비자의 보험업 신뢰 결정요인 : 중국 사례 연구

  • 남상욱 (서원대학교 경영대학 금융보험학과)
  • Received : 2014.01.05
  • Accepted : 2014.02.20
  • Published : 2014.02.28
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Abstract

The study aims to estimate the determinants of policyholder's trust for the Chinese insurance industry by structural equation model. In particular, differences in determinants of trust among Chinese life insurance and auto insurance were derived from the latent mean and multi group analysis. The result shows the most effective determinants of trust were honesty, followed by credibility which shows the compensation ability of insurance company. However, benevolence is not influence statistically on the determinants of trust of both life insurance and auto insurance. Moreover, the policyholder's trust for the insurance industry was later extended to relationship commitment such as renewal and recommendation intentions. Especially, the linkage between the level of trust and relationship commitment was the strongest in life insurance than auto insurance. Even though the result is differ based on types of insurance, in order for the insurance industry to grow stably it is importance to get trust from policyholder.

이 연구는 중국 보험소비자의 보험업에 대한 신뢰 결정요인을 구조방정식 모형을 통해 살펴보고, 생명보험과 자동차보험 간 보험소비자 신뢰 결정요인에 차이가 있는지를 잠재평균과 다집단분석을 통해 검증하였다. 분석결과, 중국 보험소비자의 보험업 신뢰 결정요인으로 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 것은 보험회사의 정직성이었고, 정직성 요인 다음으로는 보험회사가 장래 보험금 지급을 제대로 할 수 있는지를 포괄하는 공신력이 신뢰 결정요인으로 작용하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 반면, 배려는 신뢰 결정요인으로서는 통계적으로 유의미하지 않았다. 한편, 보험소비자의 신뢰는 중국 보험시장에서도 추후 재가입이나 주변 사람 추천 등 관계몰입으로 강하게 연결됨을 보였다. 이러한 결과는 앞으로 보험업이 더욱 견고하게 지속 성장하기 위해서는 무엇보다 보험소비자의 신뢰 구축이 긴요하다는 것을 시사해 준다.

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