While purchasing, using products and services, satisfaction which consumers experience is subject that is studied most in consumer behavior field along with attitude.
Most studies have been conducted within the overarching expectancy-disconfirmation ...
While purchasing, using products and services, satisfaction which consumers experience is subject that is studied most in consumer behavior field along with attitude.
Most studies have been conducted within the overarching expectancy-disconfirmation paradigm, which is emphasizing in cognitive aspect than affective aspect. A few expectancy-disconfirmation paradigm researchers have gone beyond these cognitively toned model formulations to consider the affective nature of satisfaction.
Although expectancy-disconfirmation paradigm is explained a large part of consumer satisfaction. However, reliance on a single paradigm or method may pose serious limitations for any marketing phenomenon(Fournier and Yao 1997; Mick and Buhl 1992) including consumer satisfaction.
For this reason, structural relationships among the utilitarian/hedonic consequence, value, satisfaction were hypothesized, and moderating role of cognitive/affective involvement from the relationships were studied.
The Sample was divided into four situations, high cognitive involvement/low cognitive involvement, high affect involvement/low affective involvement. To divide evenly all sample into each situation, sports shoes was selected from product category and the data were collected by 180 respondents, and 164 valid questionnaires were analyzed by means of AMOS 4.0. To examine the hypotheses, research model and alternative model were developed, and goodness-of-fit was compared by each situation.
The result of this research is summarized as follows.
First, the hypothesis was supported that effect that utilitarian consequence on satisfaction by the mediating of utilitarian value is larger than effect that utilitarian consequence on satisfaction directly in the high cognitive involvement situation. Goodness-of-fit of alternative model that except the effect that utilitarian consequence on satisfaction directly was examined to be excellent. The fact from this testing confirmed that mediating effect of utilitarian value is large.
Second, the hypothesis was supported that effect that utilitarian consequence on satisfaction directly is larger than that effect that utilitarian consequence on satisfaction by the mediating of utilitarian value in the low cognitive involvement situation. Research model that include all effect that utilitarian consequence on satisfaction directly and effect that utilitarian consequence on satisfaction by the mediating of utilitarian value was better than alternative model that except the effect that utilitarian consequence on satisfaction directly.
Third, the hypothesis was supported that effect that hedonic consequence on satisfaction by the mediating of hedonic value is larger than effect that hedonic consequence on satisfaction directly in the high affective involvement situation. Goodness-of-fit of alternative model that except the effect that hedonic consequence on satisfaction directly was examined to be excellent. The fact from this testing confirmed that mediating effect of hedonic value is large.
Finally, the hypothesis was not significant that effect that hedonic consequence on satisfaction directly is larger than that effect that hedonic consequence on satisfaction by the mediating of hedonic value in the low affective involvement situation. But Its direction was the same as that of this research model.
In conclusion of this research, the summary of this research, the differences from the extant researches and limitations were discussed, and it ended by discussing about the further research.