GENERATION Y CONSUMERS' SHOPPING STYLES: A RESEARCH BY GENDER
Abstract
Objectives: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the clothing shopping styles of generation Y consumers and whether there exist differences in shopping
styles according to the gender of generation Y consumers.
Methods: For
the main purpose, a questionnaire was designed from the literature review.
Convenience sampling is used and data were gathered from a survey of 402
respondents aged between 18-36 who completed a questionnaire, which was then
factor-analysed to identify generation
Y consumers shopping styles and t-tests were conducted for hypotheses
testing.
Results:
Findings indicate that seven shopping styles are valid and reliable: quality conscious, brand conscious, novelty
seeking, entartainment conscious, confused by overchoice, habitual/brand loyal,
and fashion conscious. The results of study show that two shopping
styles are different by gender of generation Y consumers. These gender-based shopping styles differences are fashion conscious and entartainment concious. This study is
providing useful data for the consumer behavior of generation Y and deeper
understanding for their shopping styles.
Keywords
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Details
Primary Language
Turkish
Subjects
Economics
Journal Section
Research Article
Publication Date
December 15, 2017
Submission Date
October 10, 2017
Acceptance Date
December 11, 2017
Published in Issue
Year 2017 Volume: 6 Number: 4