A culture-art product that has been the object of the public’s consumption satisfies consumers’ emotional and sensuous desires and is consumed as an education effect for intellectual improvement. Unlike general leisure or entertainment products. t...
A culture-art product that has been the object of the public’s consumption satisfies consumers’ emotional and sensuous desires and is consumed as an education effect for intellectual improvement. Unlike general leisure or entertainment products. the demand for culture-art products can hardly be created by marketing stimuli, unlike commodities and service products .
To achieve these goals, a focus group interview(FGI) was conducted as a qualitative research method of examining the conceptual structure and relationship of the value cognition and benefits of consumers on culture-art products, and as a quantitative research method of determining the dimension of value cognition, benefits, and product preferences of consumers of culture-art products and of empirically identifying their relationships.
In the qualitative research, a total of 58 males and females in their 10s to 50s who were living in capital areas, metropolitan cities, and small and medium-sized cities were divided into 12 groups, and an FGI was conducted.
In the quantitative research, the main survey was conducted after questions were drawn up about the consumers’ preferred product attributes based on a preliminary survey, and then verifying the feasibility of each question based on the conceptual structure of the value cognition and benefits derived from the qualitative research and previous researches. This survey was conducted online and offline among a total of 662 persons in their 10s to 50s who were living in Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, metropolitan cities, and small and medium-sized cities. The data were analyzed by factor analysis and path analysis using SPSS WIN 18.0 and AMOS 16.0.
First, it was found that the consumers of culture-art products had the following 3 conceptual structures of value cognitions: actual and individual merit goods, aesthetic and sensuous merit goods, and social public property and that their benefits had the following 3 dimensions: aesthetic character-oriented, social relationship-oriented, and individual benefit-oriented.
Second, the dimensions of value cognitions and benefits of the consumers of culture-art products and attributes were empirically found to be as follows: their value cognitions turned out to be 3 factors - individual merit goods, aesthetic merit goods, and social public property. Their dimensions of benefits turned out to be 4 factors - pursuit of aesthetic character, pursuit of actual benefits, pursuit of emotional benefits and pursuit of conspicuous character, and their dimensions of attributes were environmental impact, price, communication, people, artwork, composition, and personal relations.
Third, the path analysis that were conducted to understand the relationship of the value cognitions, benefits, and attributes of the consumers showed that the value cognitions factors of the consumers toward culture-art products had an influence on the benefit factors, and that the benefit factors had an influence on the attribute factors and it was confirmed that the value cognitions of the consumers had an influence on their preferred product attributes by way of their benefits.
These results confirm that while culture-art products have ideal and abstract characteristics, they are goods that yield actual benefits for individual consumers and society and that the benefits are attained according to the consumer’s value cognition, through which he or she chooses product attributes.
The dimensions of value cognitions, benefits of the consumers on culture-art products and attributes and their relationships that were shown in this research can be used to study and understand consumers of culture-art products who pursue various consumption values academically, and can be provided as consumer information for use by culture-art product producers, companies that use culture and art, and government agencies that are trying to improve the quality of life of the public practically.