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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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
Türkçe
Konular
Ekonomi
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yayımlanma Tarihi
15 Aralık 2017
Gönderilme Tarihi
10 Ekim 2017
Kabul Tarihi
11 Aralık 2017
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2017 Cilt: 6 Sayı: 4