過去「罪惡感」相關的研究，大多集中在哲學、文學、心理學、宗教學的領域，在行銷的領域則甚少提及。即使有關於「消費罪惡感」的相關文獻，也只是將「消費罪惡感」當成影響消費者行為的一個變數來應用，並沒有對「消費罪惡感」本質作探討的相關研究。
因此，本研究先由第一階段的深度訪談，仔細探查「消費罪惡感」的元素、發生時機、情緒內涵、及其對消費者行為的影響，並發展出相關的命題。接著再根據第一階段所推導的相關命題，延伸至第二階段的量表發展。
第一階段深度訪談的25位受訪者包括了學生、上班族、銀髮族，年齡分佈在22-63歲，所描述的產品共57項。根據訪談的結果顯示，「消費罪惡感」可以分解為六種情緒：「猶豫感」、「不捨感」、「擔憂感」、「心虛感」、「後悔感」、「內疚感」。另外，「消費罪惡感」發生的時點除了購買前的「預期性消費罪惡感」以及購買後的「反應性消費罪惡感」外，還包括了購買中的「進行性消費罪惡感」。其中，「預期性消費罪惡感」的主要情緒為「猶豫感」、「進行性消費罪惡感」主要的情緒為「不捨感」、「反應性消費罪惡感」的主要情緒為「後悔感」及「內疚感」。至於「消費罪惡感」對消費者行為的影響方面，當消費者產生了「預期性消費罪惡感」會使消費者的「購買意願」降低，而當消費者感受到「反應性消費罪惡感」時，在短期內對類似產品的「再購意願」會降低。
第二階段的量表發展，經過多次專家對初步發展的題項進行評估，並確認專家意見歸類準確，才進行兩次量表純化、效標關聯效度的檢測、以及量表鑑別度分析，據此確立「預期性消費罪惡感量表」及「反應性消費罪惡感量表」。本研究並根據確立的量表驗證第一階段的命題，結果顯示，不同發生時點的消費罪惡感所表現出的核心情緒與推導出的命題一致。此外，本研究亦在量表發展完成之後，進一步將其修改為衡量單一商品的「特定商品消費罪惡感量表」，並以此量表檢測消費者在某特定商品上之消費罪惡感，結果顯示，針對特定商品的「預期性消費罪惡感」與「反應性消費罪惡感」為負相關，與「一般性消費罪惡感量表」之正相關相異。
整體而言，本研究不僅對「消費罪惡感」的本質作了深入的探究，讓「消費罪惡感」之定義更加明確，且解釋了不同消費罪惡感發生時機之情緒內涵的差異，並據此發展出「消費罪惡感量表」，以為未來「消費罪惡感」相關研究之適切衡量工具。 / Guilt is a negative state that individuals experience in reaction to either a positive but undeserved event or a negative but deserved event. Despite its negative valence, guilt is considered a functional emotion, because it informs individuals that they have violated personal or social standards and motivates reparative action. In a consumption context, guilt has been linked to impulsive buying, compulsive consumption, and overspending. This guilt about consumption is usually named “Consumer Guilt.” Although previous research has defined consumer guilt, the measurement of consumer guilt is still not available in previous research. Therefore, this study focuses on the construct of consumer guilt and intends to explore when consumer guilt occurs.
In order to find out the constructs, timing, and measurement of consumer guilt, 25 respondents were reminded with a shopping situation which consumers usually have the feelings of guilt. The interviewees were also requested to recall their last consumer guilt situation. This research employed the critical incident techniques and the main study contains 57 consumer guilt events.
The results illustrate three major findings. First, through collecting, sorting and analyzing 56 events, the results pointed out consumer guilt had six constructs of emotion: hesitation, fear, scruple, reluctance to spend, regret, blame. Second, the past researches indicated consumer guilt can divide into two categories: reactive guilt and anticipatory guilt. This study finds that besides anticipatory consumer guilt and reactive consumer guilt, consumer guilt occurs at the point of buying. We name it proceeding consumer guilt. Third, the major construct of anticipatory consumer guilt is hesitation, the major construct of proceeding consumer guilt is reluctance to spend, and the major construct of reactive consumer guilt is regret and blame.
Based on these results, we define the construct of consumer guilt to be measured, and generate items that pertain to the construct. Then determine the reliability and validity of these items. The anticipatory consumer guilt scale and the reactive guilt were developed to capture the concept of consumer guilt. The scale successfully met standards for internal reliability, content validity, criterion-related validity, and construct validity.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:CHENGCHI/G0923555072 |
| Creators | 林育則, Lin, Yu Tse |
| Publisher | 國立政治大學 |
| Source Sets | National Chengchi University Libraries |
| Language | 中文 |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Rights | Copyright © nccu library on behalf of the copyright holders |
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