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Effects of Brand Attachment and Perceived Aesthetic on Intention to Purchase New Smartphone (브랜드 애착과 지각된 심미성이 새로운 스마트폰에 대한 구매의도에 미치는 효과)

  • Lee, Woong-Kyu;Park, Jin-Hoon
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.147-168
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    • 2014
  • Consumer's switching behavior from incumbent smartphone to new one can be explained by not merely rational assessment but also affective aspects like aesthetic or pleasure and emotional points like attachment. but, in information system field, researches on affective.emotional factors relatively were insufficient and researches which focus on the perspective of the consumer were more scarcity. consumer's attachment to current smartphone brand and perceived aesthetic on new one would influence rational evaluation to switch or not. Therefore, this study investigates relationship between emotional factors on current smartphone and assessment of new one, in turn, we empirically analyzes purchase intention of the consumer. In order to prove the validity of the hypotheses, this study was applied longitudinal study and then conduct a survey of 212 smartphone users. The analysis results by Partial Least Square (PLS) approach showed that all hypotheses in this study were statistically supported.

Cross-Cultural Comparison of Consumer Attitudes toward US Brand Jeans -among Korean and Mexican consumers- (미국산 청바지에 대한 소비자 태도의 비교문화 분석 -한국과 멕시코의 남녀소비자를 대상으로 -)

  • ;Jai-Ok Kim
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.493-501
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    • 1996
  • An understanding of consumers' evaluative processes and the consumer variables that influence cross-cultural evaluations of foreign products is essential to effectively penetrate international markets. This study compared consumers in two developing countries, Korea and Mexico, regarding their product evaluations and purchase intentions for US Levi's jeans. Both Korean and Mexican consumers are generally quality and price conscious. Korean consumers appeared to be more value-conscious than Mexican consumers. Mexican consumers exhibited high level of brand and prestige conscious behavior. Findings in this study support that culture bound consumer characteristics vary from country to country resulting in differences in perception of quality, value and purchase intentions for a particular product. The perception of product quality differs from perception of value and subsequent willingness to buy. For a comprehensive understanding of consumer purchase behavior, the impact of value-conscious attitude on percetion of quality and on purchase intentions should be examined.

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The Effect of Parent's Verbal Control Types on Young Children's Lying Behavior (부모의 언어통제유형이 유아의 거짓말 행동에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Ye-Ji;Yang, Sung-Eun
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.50 no.4
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    • pp.21-36
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study was to find out the influence of the Parent's control based on young children's habit of lying. This study was carried out through experimental observations. For the purpose of this study a total of 798 participants were selected from 5 kindergartens located in Seoul, Gyeong-gi and Incheon. The results of the study showed that rather than parents being excessively strict towards their children and commanding discipline, the child rearing attitude of rational and logical explanation along with discretionary power given to young children of their own rules. This can allow young children to morally decide and behave themselves. Moreover, moral education that is suited for the young children's development in order to internally learn about the moral behaviors on their own is needed.

The Influence of Green Product Quality and Green Consumer Behavior on Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty (그린제품 품질과 그린소비 행위가 고객만족과 고객충성도에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Sung Ho
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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    • v.10 no.6
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    • pp.37-46
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    • 2015
  • This study investigates the relationships among product quality, consumer behavior, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty on environmental viewpoint. For the empirical study it has been attempted to collect data by using a questionnaire including 18 questions. The respondents who had experienced using green or environmental products were 212 college students. In my research 167 valid cases are selected for a data analysis by SPSS based hierarchical regression analysis technique. The results show that green product quality had significant impacts on customer satisfaction and customer loyalty, and cost factor of green consuming behavior had moderating effects between customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. Empirical results imply that green product quality contributes to customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. Additionally, green consumer behavior on customer satisfaction increase customer loyalty.

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The Effects of Children's Temperament, Maternal Child-Rearing Behavior, and Child-Care on Children's Noncompliance (아동의 기질, 어머니의 양육행동 및 보육경험이 아동의 불순응 행동에 미치는 영향)

  • Ha, Ji Young;Park, Sung Yun
    • Korean Journal of Child Studies
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.55-74
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    • 2005
  • This study investigated the effects of children's temperament and environmental factors on boys' and girls' noncompliance in ecological context. Observations were made of 62 children(34 boys and 28 girls, $\bar{x}$= 44 months) enrolled in child-care centers. Mothers and caregivers completed questionnaires. Data were analyzed by t-test, Pearson's Correlation, and three way ANOVA. Results showed no significant gender difference in noncompliance. There were correlations between children's activity level, maternal rejection and responsiveness, quantity of child-care and boys' noncompliance. For girls, only activity level and quantity of child-care were related to noncompliance. The effects of maternal child-rearing behavior and child-care variables on noncompliance varied by children's gender and temperament.

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An Analysis of Consumers' Problematic Complaining Behaviors and Firms' Reactions (소비자의 악성불평행동 분석 및 기업의 대처행동 조사 연구)

  • Huh, Kyung-Ok
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.30 no.6
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    • pp.167-181
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    • 2012
  • This study analyzed consumer's harsh complaining behaviors and firm's reactions toward consumers' harsh complaining behavior, and investigated the differences in the firms' reactions according to the characteristics of counselors and customer service centers. In addition, this study attempted to find a strategy and provide guidance regarding consumer's harsh complaining behaviors. The results of this study are discussed below. First, consumer's harsh complaining attitudes were expressed by crude language, violent language, threats, personal attacks, and claims of a high-ranking social position. Consumer's directive, complaining behaviors were repeated on the telephone, and threats of prosecution or disclosure to the public, exposure of habitual product returns, and requests for interviews with superiorsat the representative firm were made. Second, a firm typologies according to its reaction style toward a consumer's harsh complaining behaviors were as follows: Group 1, having a neutral attitude toward consumers and preparation thoroughly regarding their demands; Group 2, having a negative attitude toward consumers and some degree of preparation toward consumers' demands; and finally, Group 3, having a positive attitude toward consumers but offering insufficient reparation regarding consumers' demands. Third, female counselors, counselors having a certified counselor's license, and those much experience working in labor work were more likely to be in Group 3. Male counselors, part-time counselors, and those having experience of many years were more likely to be in Group 2. Group 1 were more likely to have large number of workers at customer service centers, male counselors, and to have large numbers of educational training programs related to the reactions of consumers in the form of dissatisfaction, complaints, how to offer compensation for injuries to consumers, and issues related to PL(product liability). In addition, Group 1 also had more firm level welfare policies related to hight stress levels of consumer counselors and extra types of support regarding harsh consumers. However, Group 2 members were more likely to provide excessive compensation and rewards to harsh consumers. Finally, to react to consumer's harsh complaint efficiently, it was suggested that firms should not treat consumers as harsh consumers, should react to consumers' complaints sincerely, and should take precautionary management efforts as regards consumer dissatisfaction based on better quality control of products. In addition, it was deemed necessary to formulate a management strategy to train competent consumer counselors with a high quality of counselor skill, having standardized and consistent reaction guidance toward consumer complaints and thorough knowledge of compensation rules for consumer injuries and subsequent guidance.

The Effect of Father's Parenting Behavior, Parenting Involvement and Father-Child Communication on Children's Multiple Intelligence (아버지의 양육행동, 양육참여도 및 아버지-자녀간 의사소통이 아동의 다중지능에 미치는 영향)

  • Jang, Young Ae;Lee, Young Ja
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.529-546
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    • 2013
  • The purpose of this study was to find the effects of parenting behavior, parenting involvement and father-child communicationon on children's multiple intelligence. For this purpose, 182 children selected from three elementary schools and their fathers participated in the study. The findings of this study are as follows : First, there were some significant differences in children's multiple intelligence according to the children's grade, gender, father's educational background and income. Second, there were some significant differences in children's multiple intelligence according to the parenting behavior, warmth acceptance, rejection restriction and permissiveness nonintervention behaviors, and to leisure activity, life guidance, study guidance of parenting involvement and to father-child open communication, problematic communication. Third, It was also found that children's grade, gender, father's educational background, warmth acceptance behavior, permissiveness nonintervention behaviors and open communication, problematic communication were all significant predictors of the children's multiple intelligence. In order to increase the children's multiple intelligence, parents should be warmer and more accepting and have open commnication with their children.

A Study on the Consumption Behavior of Cellular Phone of Middle School Students and Consumer Education by Mothers (어머니에 의한 소비자교육이 중학생의 휴대폰 소비행동에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Young-Joo;Choi, Jeong-Hye;Jang, Sang-Ock
    • Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.163-177
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this study is to see relationship between middle school students' cellular phone consumption behavior and their mothers' consumer education. A survey was conducted with middle school students at nine middle schools in Gyeongnam who possessed a cellular phone and their mothers(1,080 in total). The results of this study are as follows: First, middle school students' cellular phone consumption behavior was relatively at the average level or higher: they were best at A/S and change and refund and were at the average level in collecting and using information for purchase followed by contract. This consumption behavior was associated with such variables as gender, academic performance, and monthly pocket money. Second, as for consumer education for middle school students' mothers in general, purchase education was most highly recognized, followed by citizenship education and value education. However, value education was relatively weak, which should be reinforced. Mothers' consumer education was associated with children's grade, academic performance and monthly pocket money. Third, since middle school students' desirable cellular phone consumption behavior was strongly associated with their mothers' consumer education, it is highly urgent to improve the quality of consumer education by mothers at home.

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The Adolescents' Consumer Knowledge and Consumption Behavior and Related Variables (청소년의 소비자지식과 소비 행태 및 관련변인)

  • Jung, Mi-Jung;Lee, Yon-Suk
    • Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.1-17
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    • 2007
  • The purposes of this study are to examine the adolescents' consumer knowledge and consumption behavior and analyze the factors affecting them. The sample of this study is 640 middle school students living in kyunggi province. The data are collected using structured questionnaires and analyzed by the descriptive statistics, t-test, One-way ANOVA and multiple regression analysis. The results of this study are as follows. First, the third grade students and the female students get higher scores in the consumer knowledge compared with the first grade and the male students. Other factors affecting the level of consumer knowledge are occupation of parents, education level of mother, household income and GPA. Second, the consumption behavior of students is moderately resonable and affected by sex and grade of students, education level of mother, household income, and GPA. Third, the adolescent's consumer knowledge affects their consumption behavior. The results of multiple regression analysis show that 4% to 9% of variances of sub categories of the consumption behavior are explained by the level of consumer knowledge. Since the consumer knowledge learned at schools is rarely transferred to the reasonable consumption behavior, the systematic and relevant consumer education considering the development stages of adolescents is required in the future.

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A Study on Consumer′s Concerns on Textile Fabrics in Children′s Clothings (유아복 섬유소재에 대한 소비자의 관심도 연구)

  • 김선경;이희선
    • The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.137-150
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    • 1997
  • This study examined the effects of demographic characteristics (education, income level) on the relationships among knowledge of textile fibers, information searching behavior on textile fabrics, and information sources of textile materials in children's clothings. The subjects were 307 mothers with preschool children(4∼6years) in Seoul. Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire and analyzed using T-test analysis of variance, corelations, and crosstabulation analysis. The results indicated that : (1) Educational levels of consumers had significant influences on knowledge of textile fibers, information searching behavior on textile fabric, and information sources of textile materials in children's clothings. (2) There were significant relationship between consumer's knowledge of textile fibers and information searching behavior on textile materials in children's clothings.

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