This study aims to investigate how consumers' perceived novelty and meaningfulness in inclusive advertising featuring models with disabilities influence brand purchase intention, and to identify the mediating role of brand coolness in this relationshi...
This study aims to investigate how consumers' perceived novelty and meaningfulness in inclusive advertising featuring models with disabilities influence brand purchase intention, and to identify the mediating role of brand coolness in this relationship. To this end, an online survey was conducted among 299 native English-speaking consumers. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analysis revealed that both advertising novelty and meaningfulness have a significant positive effect on brand coolness. Furthermore, brand coolness was found to increase brand purchase intention. These findings suggest that when inclusive advertising featuring models with disabilities is perceived as a novel and meaningful communication, consumers evaluate the brand as cooler, which ultimately leads to purchase intention. This study holds academic and practical significance by systematically demonstrating the importance of novelty and meaningfulness in inclusive advertising and proposing brand coolness as a key mediating factor linking inclusive advertising to consumer behavior.