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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2015.16.11.8001

The Consumers' Evaluative Criteria of Quality on The Organic Clothes and Their Purchase Intention  

Park, Hea-Ryung (Department of Fashion Design, Hanseo University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.16, no.11, 2015 , pp. 8001-8011 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study aims to find evaluative criteria of quality on the organic clothes with college student consumers, categorize them, establish the basis of evaluation criteria, and examine the roles of each attribute according to their demographical characteristics and the association between their quality evaluation and their purchase intention. College students' evaluative criteria of quality factors of organic clothes were three factor; "aesthetic symbolism", "mainterance efficiency", and "functionality". As a result, first this study showed significant differences from the evaluation criteria of organic clothes in sex, major and pocket money among demographical characteristics Second, this study found that college student consumers' experience of purchasing organic clothes considered "aesthetic symbolism", "mainterance efficiency", and "functionality" more important compared to non-purchase group. Third, it was found that there might be differences between future purchase intention group and non-repurchase intention group according to evaluation standard of organic clothes. There was significant differences in "functionality" between the two groups.
Keywords
Aesthetic Symbolism; Evaluative Criteria of The Organic Clothes; Functionality; Mainterance Efficiency; Purchase Intention;
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