This study examined purchase intention according to construal level and temporal distance for fashion advertisement of consumers. Together with this, how the need for cognitive closure affect construal level and temporal distance of advertisement was ...
This study examined purchase intention according to construal level and temporal distance for fashion advertisement of consumers. Together with this, how the need for cognitive closure affect construal level and temporal distance of advertisement was studied by test design. The test design of this study was constituted with 2×2×2 between-subjects factorial designs which are construal level of fashion product advertisement (high construal level / low construal level) x temporal distance (near future / distant future) x need for cognitive closure (high need for cognitive closure group / low need for cognitive closure group).
For the study, I conducted survey using convenience sampling method, targeting totally 288 male and female college students and office workers of 20’s and 30’s living in Seoul and capital area, assigning them to 4 types of test situation according to two variables (construal level and temporal distance), and analyzed 188 persons among them excepting undependable ones. In order to analyze data, I conducted reliability analysis, T-test, 3-way ANOVA, simple interaction effect analysis and simple main effect analysis using SPSS statistics package.
On this test, I conducted for construal level of advertisement separating it to two parts which are low - level advertisement that is specific explanation about functional property of products and high - level advertisement that is an abstract explanation, and also did for temporal distance separating them to two parts that are near future (this weekend) and distant future (6 months later). And for the need for cognitive closure, I divided the level of it by average value of the total items.
The result of this study is as follows.
First, there was an interactive effect between construal level and temporal distance of advertisement for fashion products, which shows that construal level and temporal distance of fashion advertisement have an effect on purchase intention. This result suggests that making temporal distance near can affect purchase intention of consumers when advertising fashion products. That is, it suggests that for products that pursuit consumption and promotion of near future, it’s efficient to show with detailed explanation and advertisement considering the property of the products when advertising fashion products. Therefore, clothing company should perform promotion of fashion products and establish differentiated strategy of advertising message using construal level and temporal distance of fashion advertisement.
Second, 3-way ANOVA of construal level and temporal distance of advertisement according to the need for cognitive closure turned out to be significant. That is, there was no significant interaction effect on group with low - need for cognitive closure, and for high - need for cognitive closure group, purchase intention according to construal level of advertisement turned out to be statistically significant on both situations of ‘near future’ and ‘distant future’ of temporal distance. This result suggests that for consumers with low - need for cognitive closure, it is effective to show specific advertisement that can have consumers do least effort to search information in raising purchase intention. Moreover, an advertising message that can promote urgency tendency and permanency tendency of consumers at the time of learning advertisement can be used as an important marketing strategy in that is can raise purchase intention.