Countries in the world experience constant aged population increase due to the advance of medical service and economy. Our country also is becoming the aged society. Adjusting to this trend, the senior get through diverse cultural and social awareness...
Countries in the world experience constant aged population increase due to the advance of medical service and economy. Our country also is becoming the aged society. Adjusting to this trend, the senior get through diverse cultural and social awareness changes. The concepts of social welfare and individual economic activities have been changed. In addition, they formed new generation like the previous generation. They became main subjects in economic activities. However, the preparation and measures about the aged population have been insufficient. Especially, studies about physical, emotional, social traits about the senior and present state of silver economy therefrom, detailed and active study as an economic supplier of economic activities in all areas in silver industry have not been done.
This study started the necessity of differentiated color plan in each silver industry area for the seniors and marketing strategies. To the end, 30 colors which have intensive visual stimulus and are aware easily were chosen as specific variables. The colors were experimented to find out how the senior respond to each color unlike other common adults, if such response is related to the preference of color, and also what makes the image of preference work. Finally it was experimented if no change occur when these results of the study are applied to actual and specific objects.
The purpose of this study is to select study model considering the characteristics of the senior which the aged society require by analyzing the image and preference of color response as a base to display the color plan targeting the generation of the senior and then suggest systematic and confident evaluating method.
The evaluating method and tools were selected in previous studies for this study and its suitability and validity were confirmed. Over this process, hypothesis for the image study and preference through color response of the senior extracted from intentional purposive sampling were drawn.
The first hypothesis is about the image factor analysis and preferred color by affective response. The second hypothesis is about preference or avoiding color select and effect of emotion image as mediating variables in relation to recognizing image adjectives. The third hypothesis is about the relationship between demographic factors and image adjectives. The fourth hypothesis is about the impact of image adjectives on preference. The fifth hypothesis is about preferred response when 30 selected colors are applied to objects,
Finally, based on these hypotheses, previous image evaluating tool and evaluating tools used widely in environmental psychology were applied. The evaluating tool was PAD model which is an advanced model of EPA model. Survey was done for the senior subjects between 55 year-old to 75 year-old by generation classification.
The results drawn by the above method are as follows.
After the survey, for data statistical analysis, SPSS 17.0 was used. Through regressionanalysis, four-way ANOVA(AnalysisofVariance, andMultivariate AnalysisofVariance :MANOVA, main effect between groups was analyzed. Interaction effect was verified, too. The impact of image adjectives on preference was also analyzed. First, colors which have been dealt with passively in marketing plan or in design field so far about selected 30 colors were turned out that they are different from previous common sense through specific preference experiments. Color plan designed by simple preference was turned out that it is difficult to be expected. Second, affective image adjectives had the effect of media on impact of independent variable, recognizable image adjectives on emotional response's preference which is a dependent variable. In other words, affective image adjectives affect as a mediation variable between independent and dependent variables. dependent variable affects independent variable and mediation variable respectively. When independent variable is controlled, mediation variable affected dependent variable significantly. Third, 30 colors had different cognitive image and affective image evaluating values according to demographical factors. That is, as results of ages and genders, each 22 colors and 25 colors showed significant difference. As the higher school career and the better visibility in 23 colors appeared to be significant different only in 24 colors.
In addition, the better health condition in 19 colors and the higher life satisfaction in 18 colors were found to be significantly different. Fourth, significant interaction effect appeared in 9 colors among 30 colors in the relation between image adjectives and demographic variables. Especially, including bright wine color. all selected the bright color first. Fifth, when single color is applied to object, the and differential preference for the single color appeared in 9 colors among 30 colors. Unlike the expectation that difference would appear in more colors, difference appeared in relatively little colors. Finally, all affective images significantly influenced preference. However, only two of cognitive images appeared to influence in preference.
Through the above study, collaborators could improve the effect of mediation factor in correlation and preference by affective response, the suitability of evaluating model for image adjective selection on affective response, and image factor analysis on colors.
Through this study, the systematic and verifying evaluating methods and tools were suggested for study about colors for the senior, that is, design plan for senior supplies and color image and affective response in terms of marketing. The results of the study can suggest direction as an academic fundamental data for the senior color study. Industrially, it has meaning to provide useful issue in silver industry promotion..