• 복식문화연구
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.511-525
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• 2014

This study set out to investigate consumers' attitudes toward pro-environment, and their actual purchasing behavior. It aimed to empirically examine the effects of the consumers' attitudes toward pro-environmental products, the importance of the product attributes and the perceived value of the companies' environmental activities, on their purchasing behavior of eco-friendly fashion products, including their satisfaction, trust, and repurchase intention. The questionnaires were administered on 304 married women with previous experience of buying eco-friendly fashion products. The results were as follows. First, the consumers' behavioral patterns in terms of environmental concerns and the purchasing of eco-friendly household items were significantly positive in relation to the purchasing behaviors of eco-friendly fashion products. Second, the importance of eco-friendly attributes was significantly positive in relation to the purchasing behaviors of eco-friendly fashion products. Third, the perceived value of corporate environmental activity was not related to the purchasing behaviors of eco-friendly fashion products. Finally, the purchasing behavior of eco-friendly fashion products was significantly positive in relation to the satisfaction with eco-friendly fashion products as well as the trust and repurchase intention, and satisfaction and trust positively affected the repurchase intention. The implication of the research and direction for future study were discussed.

• 한국식품영양학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to compare convenience food purchasing behaviors and food habits. The study, which asked surveyed 131 female college students in Daejeon, in 2011, on how they used nutrition labels. The subjects were divided into two groups, in terms of the way they checked examined nutrition labels: a "Check" group(n=62, 47.3%) and a "No check" group(n=69, 52.7%). Reasons given for not reading nutrition labelings were "a habit of buying" for 72.2%, and "too small or rude" for 19.1%. The "Check" group reported higher interest in nutrition(p<0.001) and hygiene(p<0.01) than the "No check" group. Those who used the labels had higher cereal(p<0.01) and vegetable(p<0.01) consumption and a lower intake of fast foods(p<0.05). But however, most of the subjects(65.6%) chose by taste, at the time they purchased the convenience foods. The subjects considered "expiry date"(n=87, 66.4%) to be more important information on food labels than "nutrient composition"(n=11, 8.4%). The number of products whose nutrition labels were checked by over 50% was five out of 12. In conclusion, our study suggests that proper use of nutrition labeling may improve food choices and enable healthy dietary practices. Further efforts are needed to provide the public with nutrition education programs on how to read nutrition labeling. Modifying nutrition labels to make them easier for the public to understand should also be considered.

• The International Journal of Costume Culture
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.133-148
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• 2006

This research endeavors to provide correct handling methods of jeans through a study on care labels for wearing and handling behaviors of female university students in their twenties. The conclusion of the research is as follows: The study indicates that coeds own more than seven jeans and wear them three or four times a week on the average. The research showed that washing jeans once weekly is the highest. It showed that the jeans are mainly laundered with water and also with water and dry cleaning together. The students responded that they dry cleaned the pants several times and then water wash them after buying the pants in order to prevent change in colors and shapes of the pants. Content of labels should be improved because most female students indicated the importance of the care labels. The reliability and understanding of the labels were surveyed to be lacking. The survey indicated that the percentage of checking the sizes was the highest when the students bought the jeans. Furthermore, the label "handle with care" turned out to be examined more frequently than the indication, "textile materials breakdown" when they took care of the clothes including laundering or ironing. Moreover, the students experienced extensive color change after water washing and other accidents when taking care of their clothes. Their attitudes were surveyed to be very passive on handling the problems after washing or handling jeans. Therefore, the study concluded that the labeling methods should be improved especially in regard to the validity verification of the label contents and also the manufacturers should make concerted efforts to improve and enhance the consumer's rights and interests for effectiveness and accuracy of the descriptive labels.

• 한국의류산업학회지
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.745-754
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• 2010

This study is to find return factors when modern consumers purchase goods from an internet shopping mall and then to analyze the characteristics of complaints act and information search behavior. Subjects of research are 245 men and women, who have experience with more than one return in internet fashion shopping mall, in their twenties. The data were analyzed by using Factor analysis, Cronbach's analysis, one-way ANOVA, Duncan test as a post identification, Pearson's correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis. The results of this study are that male and female consumers in their 20s are mainly aware of the return factors: impulse buying, product status, deliver service, service after purchase, hype and comfortableness. And complains behavior often conduct public action, private action, nonaction. Information search behaviors for risk reduction when they purchase are product comparison, oral information search, neutral marketing information search, and service information search. The return factor from the internet fashion shopping had the greatest impact on public action and deliver services factor was a big complaint. In addition, impulse buying & Hype affect private action and non-action is influenced by impulse purchase. The consumer types by the return factors in internet fashion shopping mall are classified into the return group by deliver service, the return group by complex factors, and the return group by product status. Furthermore, there are significant differences in complaining behavior among these groups. In the information search behavior for reduction of risk factors, the return group by complex factors did more active information search behavior than the other groups. The return group by deliver service searched oral information and the return group by product status explored the neutral marketing information.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.156-163
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• 2012

Objectives: It is necessary to examine groups carrying out sexually risky behavior because the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) is high among them. In this study, the prevalence of STDs among homosexuals and sexbuying men in South Korea was investigated, along with their sexual risk factors. Methods: Men who have sex with men (MSMs, n=108) were recruited in Seoul and Busan by applying the time location sampling method, while sex-buying men (n=118) were recruited from a john school in Gyeonggi province, the suburbs of Seoul. Dependent variables included past or present infection with syphilis, Chlamydia, gonorrhea, and human immunodeficiency virus. Independent variables included health behavior, social support, sexual behavior, and safe sex. Results: It was found that when the MSMs were non-drunk while having sexual intercourse (odds ratio [OR], 0.132), they showed a higher STD infection rate when they had a higher number of anal sex partners (OR, 5.872), rarely used condoms (OR, 1.980), had lower self-efficacy (OR, 0.229), and were more anxious about becoming infected with an STD (OR, 3.723). However, the men who paid for sex showed high STD infections when they had more sex partners (OR, 2.286) and lower education levels (OR, 3.028). Conclusions: STD infections among the two groups were high when they were engaged with many sex partners and not having protected sex. In other words, there was a gap in risky sex behavior within such groups, which was significantly related to the possibility of developing an STD. Therefore, the preventive intervention against STDs for these groups needs to be expanded to include management of sex behaviors.

• 복식문화연구
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.991-1002
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• 2010

Nowadays, personal media is a new tool for communication as digital cameras and mobile phones are developing rapidly. We are concerned over Cyworld users who could have different personal characteristics which will influence on buying patterns in on line shopping behaviors. The purpose of this research was to observe fashion attitudes and purchase behavior of Cyworld mini homepage users, for establishing marketing strategies by understanding consumers. For this study, one line survey was used for 500 male and female subjects who are 20 to 40 years old. Only reliable 441 questionnaires were used for analysis. The SPSS program was used for frequency, K-means cluster, t test, and chi-square test. A total of 441 respondents were clustered on the basis of 8 item self-disclosure scale, using the K-means procedures. The results indicated that respondents were clustered into two segments; 267 respondents(active attitude towards self-disclosure) and 164 ones(not active). We examined fashion attitudes in mini home page and buying behavior by self-disclosed variable. Those who are involved actively in self expression and self-disclosure considered more fashion style and trend. The major motivates of web surfing was finding a good design, and good price. High self-disclosure group tends to search many shopping mall for right design and low self disclosure group tends to search them for the right price. High self-disclosure group tend to shop the fashion products more, while low self disclosure group tend to purchase books more through the internet. We realized that active group in self-disclosure purchased their clothing accidently when they visit Cyworld.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.211-217
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 상업적 및 공적 업무를 위해 필수적인 커뮤니케이션 도구로 인식되고 있는 디지털사이니지의 효과에 관한 연구들을 분석하여 소비자의 인게이지먼트를 향상시킬 수 있는 대안을 제안하였다. 분석 결과에 의하면, 디지털사이니지의 감성적 광고가 인지적 광고보다 쇼핑객들의 행동을 긍정적 구매 행동으로 이끌었으며 구매 환경을 이해하는데도 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 공적 차원에서는 타겟 공중에게 얼마나 적합한 채널과 메시지 인가에 따라 커뮤니티의 문제를 해결하는데 있어서 긍정적인 것으로 나타났다. 그러나, 양 차원에서 해당 디지털사이니지의 콘텐츠에 대한 소비자들의 인게이지먼트는 어느 정도인지 그리고 어떠한 디지털사이니지의 콘텐츠가 소비자의 높은 인게이지먼트를 가져오는지 등을 측정하는 경우는 거의 없었다. 따라서, 디지털사이니지가 소비자의 인게이지먼트를 높이기 위해서는 복합적이면서도 융합적인 콘텐츠를 기반으로 소비자 맞춤식으로 실행되어야 할 것이며 앞으로는 디지털사이니지 기기와 관련된 기술뿐만 아니라 창의적 콘텐츠 개발과 관련된 연구에도 초점을 두어야 할 것이다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.151-163
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• 2023

본 연구는 친환경 소비에 대한 MZ세대의 인식과 친환경 기념품에 대한 선호도를 알아보고자 하였다. 업사이클링 제품을 구매하는 이유로는 디자인, 가격, 차별성, 환경보호 등의 순으로 나타나 디자인이 제품 구매에 가장 큰 영향을 미침을 알 수 있다. 업사이클링 기념품 구매 시에도 디자인을 가장 많이 고려하였다. 환경문제에서는 환경오염의 심각성을 가장 크게 인식하고 있었으며, 패션제품의 재활용이 필요하다고 생각하였다. 친환경적인 패션제품 구매행동에서는 유행하는 옷보다 오래 입을 수 있는 옷을 선택하는 경우가 가장 많았다. 환경이나 친환경상품에 대한 관심이 있을 때 업사이클링 제품에 대한 구매가 이루어지는 것으로 나타났다. 또, 업사이클링 제품 구매 경험이 있을 경우 친환경 패션상품과 패션제품 재활용에 대한 인식이 높고 관심이 많은 것으로 나타났다. 환경문제에 대한 관심과 업사이클링 기념품에 대한 인식은 남성보다 여성이 높았다. 추후 연구에서는 업사이클링 제품, 환경문제, 소비자행동, 업사이클링 기념품 간의 상관성에 관한 연구를 진행해볼 필요가 있을 것으로 생각된다.

• 마케팅과학연구
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.27-39
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• 2009

Compulsive consumption is regarded as a global phenomenon that can adversely affect consumer well-being. Although the topic has been studied in different cultural settings, we have seen relatively little theory development and explanations of compulsive behavior Nearly all previous empirical studies attempt to explain this behavior by correlating measures of compulsive behavior with independent variables taken within the same time frame. However, recent developments in social sciences suggest that such a phenomenon may best understood in the context of the person's earlier-in-life experiences. Using the life course paradigm as an overarching framework, the present research extends previous work on this topic. Following hypotheses were drawn from literature review: H1: The earlier in childhood and adolescence a person experiences family dislocation, the greater his or her likelihood of exhibiting compulsive behaviors in adulthood. H2: The earlier in life the young person experienced family dislocation, the greater the number of family disruption events the young person experienced prior entering adulthood years. H3: Family dislocation leads to (a) increased frequency of socio.oriented family communications and (b) decreased frequency of concept-oriented family communication. H4: Young adults who were raised in families characterized by a strong socio-oriented communication structure are more likely to exhibit compulsive consumption tendencies than those who were raised in families characterized by a weak socio-oriented family communication structure. H5: Young adults who were raised in families characterized by a strong concept-oriented communication structure are less likely to exhibit compulsive consumption tendencies than those who were raised in families characterized by a week concept-oriented family communication structure. H6: The relationship between family disruption events experienced during adolescence and perceived stressfulness of these events is moderated by (a) global family support, (b) emotional family support, and (c) material family support. Those reporting higher levels of family support as teenagers are less likely to report experiencing stress due to family disruption events. H7: Perceived stressfulness of family disruption events experienced during adolescent years are associated with compulsive consumption tendencies in early adulthood. H8: The greater the number of family disruption events young adults experienced during their adolescent years the more frequent was their communication about consumption with their peers. H9: The more frequent was the young persons' communication with their peers about consumption during their adolescent years, the more likely they are to report compulsive buying tendencies as young adults. We use a sample of 120 Thai undergraduate students attending classes taught in English as part of a four-year international program. Product-moment correlations, hierarchical regression analysis and partial correlation were used to analyze data. Results of testing hypotheses showed that hypothesis 2, 4, 7 and 9 were supported and hypothesis 1, 3, 5, 6 and 8 were not supported. Our study did not find a significant relationship between the age when a person experienced family dislocation and their compulsive behavior tendencies expressed as young adults. We did not find a significant relationship between family dislocation and family communication structures. But we found a significant positive relationship between socio-oriented communication structure and compulsive buying and a significant relationship between our peer communication and compulsive buying measures. Also we found perceived stressfulness due to the disruptive events to have a significant positive relationship between the perceived stressfulness and compulsive buying. Implications from these findings, limitations of this research and future research suggestions were discussed.

• 경영과정보연구
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.195-227
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• 2011

본 연구는 '과연 소비자의 중독구매성향은 일반적인 소비에서 예상되는 구매 이후 감정 및 행동패턴에 또다른 영향으로 작용할 것인가' 라는 질문에 관심을 가지고 접근하고자 한다. 구체적인 연구의 목적은 첫째, 우리나라 패션제품 소비자의 쇼핑 중독구매성향에 영향을 미치는 심리적 요인을 살펴보고, 둘째, 중독구매성향이 패션제품 구매 후 감정(긍정적 감정/부정적 감정)에 미치는 영향을 살펴보며, 셋째, 구매후 감정이 구매 후 행동(재구매/반품 및 교환/부정적 구전)에 미치는 영향을 살펴보고, 넷째, 중독구매성향에 영향을 미치는 심리적 요인과 중독구매 성향이 구매 후 감정 및 행동에 미치는 영향은 유통채널(온라인/오프라인) 별로 차이가 있는 지를 살펴보고자 하였다. 연구결과, 개인의 심리적 요인 중 자아 존중감이 낮고, 보상구매성향과 충동성이 높은 사람일수록 중독구매성향이 높아지는 것으로 나타났다. 중독구매성향은 구매후의 양면적(긍정적, 부정적) 감정에 모두 영향을 미치고, 특히 오프라인의 경우 긍정적 감정을 수반하는 것이 밝혀졌다. 구매 후 감정은 일반적인 소비상황과 같이 구매 후 행동에 영향을 미치고 있으나, 부정적 감정의 영향이 긍정적 감정의 영향보다 크고, 또한 긍정적, 부정적 행동에 모두 명확한 영향을 미치는 것을 밝혔다는 점을 찾을 수 있었다. 본 연구는 사회적으로 문제가 되고 있는 중독구매성향에 초점을 맞추고, 중독구매성향이 구매 후 감정 및 행동에 미치는 영향을 최초로 연구하였다는 점에 의의가 있다.