This article examines WOM (word of mouth) effect on brand evaluation. Valence and volume are important components that consist of WOM information and both of them will affect brand evaluation which are brand attitude and purchase intention.By using MA...
This article examines WOM (word of mouth) effect on brand evaluation. Valence and volume are important components that consist of WOM information and both of them will affect brand evaluation which are brand attitude and purchase intention.By using MANOVA, it was found that valence of WOM information has a significant effect on both brand attitude and purchase intention. Also, negative WOM information has a bigger effect on brand evaluation than positive WOM information. However, volume of WOM did not show a significant effect on brand evaluation.Moreover, it was found that uncertainty avoidance moderates the effect of WOM valence on brand evaluation. That is, the person with high uncertain avoidance makes bigger change in brand evaluation than the person with low uncertainty avoidance when exposed to positive WOM information. Because of negativity effect, there is no significant difference in brand evaluation between the person with high uncertainty avoidance and the person with low uncertainty avoidance. The moderating effect of feminity was not supported.