In recent Consumption Behavior Ritual concept is proliferated recognition to have great potentiality for the conceptualization and interpretation of various consumption phenomenon when this study is developed lively.
Under this background, this study...
In recent Consumption Behavior Ritual concept is proliferated recognition to have great potentiality for the conceptualization and interpretation of various consumption phenomenon when this study is developed lively.
Under this background, this study focuses on arrange the studies related to ritual and ritual behavior to construct a theorectical system on "Ritualization of comsumption experience" only to verifiablily examinate to relation between ritual performance and buying behavior.
This study also focuses on the proposition of synthetic model of Ritualization by using variables and on seeking for synthetic understanding of the determinant factors and consequence of Ritualization.
This study proposed the following hypotheses.
I. Social Performance will impact on Ritualization.
I-1. Group Belonging will impact on Ritualization.
I-2. Relational Benefit will impact on Ritualization.
I-3. Socila Approval will impact on Ritualization.
II. Individual Performance will impact on Ritualization.
II-1. Self Reconstruction will impact on Ritualization.
II-2. Functional Benefits will impact on Ritualization.
II-3. Stress Catharsis will impact on Ritualization.
III-1. Ritualization will impact on Longterm Involvement.
III-2. Ritualization will impact on Brand Royalty.
III-3. Ritualization will impact on Compulsive Buying.
III-4. Ritualization will impact on Opinion Leadership.
III-5. Ritualization will impact on Comfirmity.
IV. Ritualization will mediate the relationship Social Performance between Buying Behavior.
IV-1. Ritualization will mediate the relationship Group Belonging between Buying Behavior.
IV-2. Ritualization will mideate the ralationship Relational Benefits between Buying Behavior.
IV-3. Ritualization will mideate the ralationship Social Approval between Buying Behavior.
V. Ritualization will mideate the ralationship Individual Performance between Buying Behavior.
V-1. Ritualization will mideate the ralationship Silf Reconstruction between Buying Behavior.
V-2. Ritualization will mideate the ralationship Functional Benefits between Buying Behavior.
V-3. Ritualization will mideate the ralationship Stress Catharsis between Buying Behavior.
This results are as follows,
First, Group Belonging and Social Approval of Social performance have a positive impact on Ritualization.
Second, Self Ritualization and Functional Benefits of Individual Performance have a positive impact on Ritualization.
Third, Ritualization has a positive impact on Buying Behavior, a inclusion Longterm Involvement, Brand Royalry, Compulsive Buying, Opinion Leadership, and Comfirmity.
forth, Ritualization mediates the impact on relation in Group Belonging, Relational Benefits and Social Approval of Social performance and Self Reconstruction and Functional Benefits of Individual Performance - except for stress catharsis - to the five buying behavior variables.
This study has also some limitations.
First, there is a validity problem because the survey area is limited in Taejeon only.
Second, This study used ritual and ritual behavior's theory in the next parts to develope "Ritualization of comsumption experience", but in staying explorary study relationship between each theory variables don't yet reveal explictly.
Third, This study don't treated many contents proposed in the previous study and was limited to discript partly interested intervariables relationship.
Forth, There wasn't the interpretation consumer's depth motive or attitude related to 'cloth grooming experience' and the result of this study can't reached to only general and simple conclusion.
Fifth, there may be some problems in the generalization of this study result because of sampling method.