A Study of the Effects on the Brand Crisis Form toward a Brand Attitude: Focusing on the Moderating Effect of Thinking Style, Self-monitoring, and Product Type

브랜드 위기 유형이 브랜드 태도에 미치는 영향 : 사고방식, 자기감시성, 제품유형의 조절효과를 중심으로

  • Suh, Kyung-Do (School of Business Administration, Kumoh National Institute of Technology)
  • Received : 2015.06.10
  • Accepted : 2015.08.16
  • Published : 2015.09.30

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine the moderate effects of self monitoring and the ways of thinking on the relationships and the moderate effects of brand credibility and brand attachment on the relationships between the negative information about a brand and the customer attitude holistic and analytic on the relationships between the negative information about a brand and customer attitude. To accomplish these purposes, this research divided negative information about a brand into corporate ability and corporate social responsibility. In addition, research also divided product type into functional product and symbolic product. participants are classified as having Low or High self monitoring. and the ways of thinking divided into holistic and analytic on the relationships between the negative information about a brand and customer attitude. The following are the summary of hypothesis test: (1)the consumers with low(high) level of self monitering are more likely to reveal high level of preference for negative information of corporate ability. (2)the consumers with analytic(holistic) ways of thinking are more likely to reveal high level of preference for negative information of corporate ability. (3)the consumers with low(high) level of self monitering are more likely to reveal high level of preference for functional product. (4)the consumers with analytic(holistic) ways of thinking aren't more likely to reveal high level of preference for functional(symbolic) product.

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