This study examines a moderated mediation model where service
failure attributes (controllability, severity) in O2O delivery platforms
influence customer responses—critical voice versus acquiescent silence —through dual psychological mechanisms (s...
This study examines a moderated mediation model where service
failure attributes (controllability, severity) in O2O delivery platforms
influence customer responses—critical voice versus acquiescent silence —through dual psychological mechanisms (service improvement motivation, negative emotion expression), moderated by platform interactivity. PROCESS Model 14 analysis (N=300 delivery app users;
RMSEA=.057, CFI=.964) confirmed: severity positively predicts improvement motivation (H2: B=.327, p<.01), which drives critical voice (H9: B=.351, p<.001). Platform interactivity plays a paradoxical role; it amplifies the impact of improvement motivation on critical voice (H21: B=.1005, p<.01), but simultaneously exacerbates acquiescent silence when negative emotions are high (H24: B=.1140,
p<.01). Integrating Weiner's attribution theory (1985), Hobfoll's COR theory (1989), and Hirschman's EVLN framework (1970), findings reveal digital platforms' double-edged interactivity and provide actionable recovery strategies: activate real-time chatbots to channel improvement motivation into voice, while managing interaction intensity to prevent silence in high-severity cases.