With the spread of the Internet and the spread of smart devices in China, the daily lives of consumers are changing rapidly. Recently, the use of smart phones is spreading and is changing to a mobile era where consumers can easily shop anytime, anywhe...
With the spread of the Internet and the spread of smart devices in China, the daily lives of consumers are changing rapidly. Recently, the use of smart phones is spreading and is changing to a mobile era where consumers can easily shop anytime, anywhere in their hands. Many consumers enjoy mobile shopping more easily than visiting stores when they buy the products they need.
In addition, China's e-commerce market size has increased significantly every year as the national average annual income soared. For example, as of 2018, there are 620 million Internet users in China and 590 million mobile Internet consumers. Among them, 90% of shopping users purchase fashion clothes through e-commerce. And as the shopping method moves to mobile, many retailers are trying to revitalize the fashion apparel shopping mall through mobile internet.
Therefore, the purpose of this study is to identify factors affecting consumer's purchasing attitude and consumption satisfaction, mainly from Chinese consumers who purchase fashion clothes using mobile in internet environment.
This study selected five independent variables such as ease of use, security, reliability, price competitiveness, and quality reliability through literature reviews. Purchasing attitude and purchasing satisfaction variables were selected as dependent variables.
Therefore, the purpose of this study is to analyze how independent variables affect dependent variables.
For these objectives, the research model and the 11 research hypothesis were suggested through literature reviews. In addition, in order to achieve the purpose of the research, the survey research was conducted by online survey and conducted about 45 days from September 10, 2019 to October 15, 2019 for Chinese consumers. The empirical analysis to test the research hypothesis was performed using the statistical package SPSS Statistics 22.0. The specific statistical techniques used were frequency analysis, reliability analysis of variables, factor analysis, correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis.
The results are as follows.
First, security, reliability, price competitiveness, and quality reliability have a positive effect on purchase attitude. Among these, reliability had the greatest impact on purchasing attitude. Ease of use did not appear to affect purchase attitudes, and this does not mean that ease of use is not important for mobile apparel and fashion shopping, but is now a fundamental attribute that the online shopping platform itself must have. It can be interpreted that consumers are not perceived as discriminating factors enough to think as determinants. In other words, it is a basic online shopping condition, not a factor influencing consumer choice. In other words, in the early days of online shopping, convenience on the platform was a very important influence factor, but now it means that the perspective of the consumer has changed due to the development of IT technology.
Second, convenience, reliability, price competitiveness, and quality reliability have positive effects on consumption satisfaction. Among them, price competitiveness was found to have the most influence. Security has not been found to affect consumption satisfaction. The implication of this result is not that it is not important for mobile apparel fashion shopping, but it means that the perspective of consumers has changed due to the development of IT technology. In other words, security has become a basic attribute that the online shopping platform itself must have, and it can be interpreted that the consumer is not perceived as a discriminating influence factor so that the consumer can no longer think as a determinant. Third, purchase attitude has a statistically significant positive effect on consumption satisfaction.
In summary, consumers who purchase fashion clothing through mobile have a purchase attitude. Above all, whether the shopping mall can be trusted, price competitiveness, satisfaction of product quality, and platform security play an important role. At the same time, purchase satisfaction can be said to depend on whether the shopping mall can be trusted, price competitiveness, satisfaction on the quality of the product, and whether shopping is convenient.
On the other hand, the fact that purchase attitudes affect purchase satisfaction has been confirmed once again that it is an inseparable relationship between two variables, as verified in many studies. In addition, in the case of mobile shopping, as a basic marketing factor, the reliability of the shopping mall, the competitiveness of the price, and the quality of the product are important issues now, but it may be very important in the future.
This study includes the necessity of later revised and supplemented research for generalization and generality of the results. Considering the gender composition ratio and the bias of the distribution of occupational groups, further studies need to be revised and supplemented for the different age groups and consumer groups working in different occupations.