• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.360-369
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• 2010

Recently various types of college with different schooling years, different methods of providing education service and so forth, appeared whereas students as their customers also have various traits. This study aims to verify the brand personality congruity difference among college types as well as analyse the effect of congruity on trust, satisfaction, and loyalty. The study undertakes the following researches with five brand personality scale(BPS) which presented in the previous research. First research was rather exploratory to clarify the difference in the personality congruity between college-student according to different types of college. As result, 4-year university was highly congruent in competence, sophistication, and ruggedness, while 2-year college was highly congruent in sincerity and cyber university was high in excitement. The second part of the research analysed the effects of personality congruity on trust, satisfaction, and brand loyalty. Results support that brand personality congruity significantly affects trust, satisfaction, and brand loyalty.