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A Longitudinal study on Fashion Lifestyle Variable of Global Consumer - Comparison among US, China and EU - (글로벌 소비자의 패션 라이프스타일 변화에 대한 종적연구 - 미국, 중국, EU 소비자를 대상으로 -)

  • Ko, Eun-Ju;Jang, Jung-Hyun
    • Journal of Fashion Business
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.26-40
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study is to examine the fashion lifestyle variable of global consumers and to compare among US, Chinese and EU consumers. The data were collected in US(n=749), China(n=702) and EU(n=1083) from 2008 to 2010. For analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis, K-means cluster analysis and chi-square analysis of SPSS 18.0 are used. The research results are as follow: First, it is shown that significant lifestyle factors of global fashion consumers are "adventure seeking", "fashion-oriented", "conspicuous consumption", "leadership", "brand-oriented", and "DIY". As a result of the cluster analysis of lifestyle types, four cross-national market segments are identified. These segments can be labeled as follows: "conservative fashion-oriented group", "passive consumer group", "neutral consumer group", "active fashion-oriented group". Second, findings also reveal that fashion lifestyle segments had meaningful differences between nationality and by year. Third, the US consumers tended to have conservative fashion-oriented lifestyle in 2008, however global consumers were changed to have active fashion lifestyle in 2010. This research will be useful to global brands in planning marketing strategies by offering specific information for global consumer fashion lifestyle.

A Study on the Japanese University Students' Clothing Buying Behavior according to Their Lifestyle (일본 여대생의 라이프스타일과 의류구매행동에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Ok-Hee;Kim, Jin-Kyung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.298-306
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    • 2005
  • The Main objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between lifestyle and clothing buying behavior of college female students in Japan. A questionnaire was developed to measure clothing urchasing motives, fashion information sources, evaluation criteria of clothing, store attribute and lifestyle, The questionnaire was administered to 131 female college students in Tokyo of Japan. the data was analyzed using percentage, frequency, mean, factor analysis, Cluster Analysis and ANOVA, Duncan Multiple Range test. The results of the study were as follows : 1. The female college students were classified into fourth subdivisions by the cluster analysis; rational group, economic group, progressive group, fashion-oriented group. 2. The clothing purchasing motives o consumers were significantly different according to lifestyle subdivision in social, personal. 3. In the case of fshion information sources, significant differences were found according to lifestyle subdivision in mass media information, information by marketer, information by consumer. 4. The evaluation criteria of clothing were significantly different depending on lifestyle subdivision in esthetic, quality and management, external criterion. 5. The store attribute were significantly different depending on lifestyle subdivision in convenience, service and atmosphere of store.

Leisure Lifestyle and Culture and Art Consumption: Cases of Art Gallery Visitors (여가 라이프 스타일과 문화 예술 소비에 관한 연구: 미술관 관람객을 중심으로)

  • Lee, Guiohk;Park, Jowon
    • Review of Culture and Economy
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.3-28
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    • 2016
  • The present study attempted the segmentation of the art gallery visitors on the basis of leisure lifestyles. For this purpose, leisure lifestyle surveys were administered at Korea's three representative art galleries, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul Museum of Art, and Seoul Art Center's Hangaram Art Museum. A total of 314 questionnaires were analyzed to identify leisure lifestyle factors. On the basis of the lifestyle factors, a cluster analysis was performed, and then the differences of demographics, museum visiting behaviors, and general cultural consumption among the clusters were examined. The cluster analysis revealed four groups of lifestyles, 'culture and art lovers', 'active homebodies', 'low leisure spenders', and 'omnivorous culture and sports participants'. The four groups revealed the differences in terms of demographics, museum visiting behaviors, and general cultural consumption. On the basis of the findings, the marketing strategies targeting the segmented art gallery markets were discussed.

Relationships between lifestyle and clothing shopping orientation of Chinese female college students (중국 여대생의 라이프스타일과 의복 쇼핑성향과의 관계 연구)

  • Lee Ok-Hee
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.33-42
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between lifestyles and clothing shopping orientation. A questionnaire was developed to measure the lifestyle and shopping orientation of Chinese female college students. The questionnaire was distributed and collected from 217 college female students in China. The data was analyzed by mean, standard deviation, factor analysis, reliability test, MANOVA and ANOVA by SPSS package. The lifestyles of the respondents were classified into four types such as Open-mindedness, Accomplishment, Sociability, and Activities. And shopping orientation was classified into five types such as Recreational shopping, Speediness, Economic shopping, Shop and brand royalty, and Self-confidence. The result of this study were as follows; Consumers of open-minded lifestyle tended to economic and self-confident shopping. The higher accomplishment was, the higher speediness and economic shopping were. Consumers of sociable lifestyle tended to recreational, speediness, and self-confidence. The higher activities was, the higher economic shopping was. The shop and brand royalty was not shown to have the significant differences according to all of lifestyle groups. It is the factor that lifestyle were important in the clothing market segmentation of Chinese female college students

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Prediction of Consumer Propensity to Purchase Using Geo-Lifestyle Clustering and Spatiotemporal Data Cube in GIS-Postal Marketing System (GIS-우편 마케팅 시스템에서 Geo-Lifestyle 군집화 및 시공간 데이터 큐브를 이용한 구매.소비 성향 예측)

  • Lee, Heon-Gyu;Choi, Yong-Hoon;Jung, Hoon;Park, Jong-Heung
    • Journal of Korea Spatial Information System Society
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.74-84
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    • 2009
  • GIS based new postal marketing method is presented in this paper with spatiotemporal mining to cope with domestic mail volume decline and to strengthening competitiveness of postal business. Market segmentation technique for socialogy of population and spatiotemporal prediction of consumer propensity to purchase through spatiotemporal multi-dimensional analysis are suggested to provide meaningful and accurate marketing information with customers. Internal postal acceptance & external statistical data of local districts in the Seoul Metropolis are used for the evaluation of geo-lifestyle clustering and spatiotemporal cube mining. Successfully optimal 14 maketing clusters and spatiotemporal patterns are extracted for the prediction of consumer propensity to purchase.

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Segmentation Strategy for Revitalization of Horse Riding Industry (승마산업의 활성화를 위한 시장세분화전략)

  • Kim, Ki-Tak;Park, Dong-Kyu
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.12 no.12
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    • pp.779-786
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study was to segment latent horse riding market. Demographic characteristic, psychological characteristic, lifestyle, and perception of horse riding factor were included in the segmentation basis but, only lifestyle was useful factor for horse riding industry. The statistical techniques for data analysis were descriptive analysis, explanatory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, reliability analysis, cluster analysis, crosstab analysis, and Chi-square analysis. The result showed that sport activity, activity, and passivity factor were identified by lifestyle. The latent market of horse riding had two segment markets. First segment was known as a sport activity oriented group and the other is nonactivity oriented group. According to three demographic variables and preference of horse riding were statistical significant at the level of .05.

Fashion Lifestyle Segmentation of College Women′s Apparel Market: Informations Sources.Clothing Benefits Sought.Store Selection Criteria (패션 라이프스타일에 의한 여대생 의류 시장 세분화 -패션정보원.의복추구이점.상점선택기준-)

  • 정혜영
    • The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.393-408
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    • 1995
  • The purpose of this study was to segment the female college apparel market based on fashion lifestyle and to develop a profile of each segment regard to fashion information sources, clothing benefits sought, and store selection criteria. The data were collected through questionnaire by random sample of 522 female college students. By cluster analysis of lifestyle factors, three groups were identified. (fashion leaders, fashion followers and fashion aversion), Three groups were then compared through multivariate analysis of variance on 11 fashion sources, 10 clothing benefits sought and 90 store selective criteria. Significant difference were found among the three groups on all these variables which indicate that fashion lifestyle can be a useful base for segmenting female apparel market and these groups are unique in terms of fashion information sources, clothing benefits sought and store selective criterias.

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Lifestyle Segmentation: The Comparison of Islamic and Conventional Banking Customers in Indonesia

  • Sutarso, Yudi;Rustiana, Elly;Hanum, Rizky Amalia;Gunawan, Wibiksono K
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.10 no.8
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    • pp.25-34
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    • 2012
  • Understanding customer' lifestyles important for banks because it will guide in determining marketing policies, such as services, pricing, service delivery and promotion decisions. From the customer' lifestyle, banks will know what kind of customers' attitudes, interests and opinions, so they also will understand what the costumer' needs and what services needed by them. For Islamic banks, customers understanding are important because, nowadays, the competition of the banks is not only with other Islamic banks but also with the well-established conventional banks offering Islamic products or services The aims of this research paper are to describe what factors underline the customer's lifestyle of both Islamic and conventional bank, to segment the bank customers based on their lifestyles and investigate the profile of each segments, to compare the characteristics of the segments, and to identify marketing policies based on the characteristics. The population of the study is banking customers in Indonesia, in which the researchers have used judgment sampling as sample selection. There were 186 customers of Islamic banks and 244 customers of conventional bank as respondents in this study. Statistical methods employed were exploratory factor analysis and cluster analysis. The finding of the study shows that there are twelve factor underlining the customers' lifestyle, namely: factor of fashion conscious, internet usage, sports spectator, financial and technology optimism, price sensitivity, independent, compulsive housekeeper, new brand tryer community activities, opinion leader, credit usage, and homebody. In addition, for Islamic banking, there are two market segments, namely fashionable-independent and innovative-social segment. Based on the lifestyle characteristics, the first segment has higher level in factor of fashion conscious, homebody, independent, optimism and price conscious, which is therefore called fashionable-independent segment. On the other hand, the second cluster has higher level in factor of new brand tryer, community minded, sport spectator, credit user, internet usage, opinion leader, and compulsive housekeeper, which is therefore called the innovative-social segment. Furthermore, for conventional banking, there are also two segments, namely persuasive-optimistic and sensitive-independent segment. The first segment has higher level on some factors, namely: opinion leader, optimism, internet usage rate, credit usage level, sport spectator, and new brand tryer. On the other hand, the second cluster is characterized by higher level in factor of price conscious, confidence, community minded, homebody, fashion conscious, and compulsive housekeeper. Managerial implications for the management of Islamic banks could be identified in this study as follows. Firstly, the twelve lifestyle factors of this study could be an alternative view in observe Islamic banking customers. The domination of both the fashionable conscious and the internet usage factor show that the aspects are quite instrumental in perceiving the customer' lifestyles, in which reflects the importance of these two aspects to customers. Secondly, in serving their customers, Islamic banks need to understand the customer lifestyle, in which the lifestyle segments found in this study provide a guide of how their needs were reflected. Finally, by understanding the segments and the characteristics each segment of the conventional banks, Islamic banks could adjust their marketing strategies differently from the conventional banks.

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A Comparative Study on the Lifestyle Trait of Local City Resident (지방 소도시 소비자의 라이프스타일 특성:대도시 소비자와의 비교를 중심으로)

  • Kim, Hoon
    • Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.203-225
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this study is to supply basic marketing information and establish marketing strategy on local market by analyzing related using behavior of lifestyle type and buying behaviour of local residents. On this viewpoint, we focused on identifying the lifestyle, shopping behaviour, and media usage pattern. For this research, we surveyed consumers living in Jecheon city and analyzed questionnaires by multivariate statistical analysis. Through empirical analysis, we derived overall lifestyle profiles including demographic traits, media usage, leisure pattern in each lifestyle types and marketing implications.

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A Study on Consumer Behaviors by Types of Lifestyle for Fashion Marketing Strategy (패션잡지 마케팅 전략을 위한 라이프스타일 유형에 따른 소비자 행동연구)

  • Kim, Chil-Soon;Lee, Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.31 no.11
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    • pp.1500-1509
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study was to observe lifestyle of female consumers aged 15-25. Also it was to measure brand awareness, to determine purchase criteria in fashion magazine, and to determine promotion preferences according to lifestyle segmentation variables. We distributed 600 questionnaires and 475 reliable questionnaires were used for a statical analysis. Data analyses were conducted with SPSS program on the frequency mean value, Chi-square test, Cluster analysis, and Factor analysis. We classified four clusters such as individual style seekers, trend seekers, promotion/good appearance seekers, and low fashion interest group, based on lifestyle variables. There was a significant difference in brand awareness in Vogue Girl, Cosmo Girl, Elle, Figaro, Ecole magazine among four clusters. There was a significant difference in such purchase criteria as favorable cover models, good "burok" which is a magazine supplement, brand names, and price among four clusters. In addition, the results of ANOVA represent that there was a significant difference in preferred types of promotion such as discount price, clothing gifts, fashion accessary gifts and hair tool gifts. However, the first ranked preferred one was a cosmetic gift in all the magazines, which favored more by trend seeker group.