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The Research of Involvement and Purchase Decision in Facial Care Products Market

With the increase of national income, cosmetic products have become the daily necessities, its development is closely related with the trends; Furthermore, younger groups start to use the cosmetic products, making the cosmetic products market has expanded each year. According to the Euromonitor¡¦s analysis, the facial care products account for the highest proportion of sales on cosmetic products market in Asia. According to the analysis of the cosmetic industry in 2008 also pointed out that the consumer spend in facial care products are accounted more than 38% in cosmetic products market. However, the current study focused mainly on the overall cosmetic products, facial care products made for less than the depth of the study, this study was expected to discuss the purchase decision in facial care products market.
This study will discuss the consumer purchase decision in facial care products market and reference in Zaichkosky (1985). The purpose of this study is to develop and discusses the involvement and purchase decision in facial care products whether there was significant difference. The EKB model is chosen as a conceptual framework and focus on facial care products consumers in Taiwan area. The simple random sampling method is used to obtain 300 effective samples from 335 questionnaires sent out. The methods of factoring, Scheffe test, variance, Schema¡¦s test, Chi-square statistics are used to analyze the sampled data. The method to measure consumer involvement is Kapferer &Laurent¡¦s¡uThe Consumer Involvement Profile¡v, the five dimensions to measure including : importance, pleasure, sign, the risk of purchase, risk probability. Each dimension uses Likert¡¦s five point scales.
The study results show that the consumers with different involvement levels, demographics variables have positive effect towards product involvement. On the purchase decision making behaviors variables, their purchase motivation, information sources and evaluation criteria are significantly different. Finally, according to the characteristics of consumers with different involvement levels, this study provides the marketing strategies, as a reference for the facial care products companies to plan their future marketing strategies.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-1229111-182011
Date29 December 2011
CreatorsChen, Jie-Yu
ContributorsTsuang Kuo, Iuan-yuan Lu, Hsien-tang Tsai
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-1229111-182011
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