Interests of modern consumers on health are increasing, and health-seeking consumption lifestyle with a comprehensive concept that includes all consumption behaviors related to physical health and mental health in addition to consumption behavior rela...
Interests of modern consumers on health are increasing, and health-seeking consumption lifestyle with a comprehensive concept that includes all consumption behaviors related to physical health and mental health in addition to consumption behavior related to healthy dietary life is appearing.
The purpose of study was to develop and verify the health-seeking consumption lifestyle scale that existing health promotion behavior and health-oriented consumption behavior in order to solve each limitation. The study examined relation of social status, perceived health status and health-seeking consumption lifestyle and identified the variables influencing their health-seeking consumption lifestyle.
A survey was conducted married women of over 20 year old that used the survey company Now & Future. Total 500 questionnaires were used in the final analysis. The collected data was treated with SPSS 19.0 Statistics program and analyzed in terms of frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, factor analysis, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis.
The results of this study are summarized as follows:
First, mental health-seeking consumption lifestyle scored the highest points with the mean of 3.37 in health-seeking consumption lifestyle. The healthy dietary life seeking consumption lifestyle was mean of 3.19 and physical health-seeking consumption lifestyle was the lowest with the mean of 2.58.
Second, for social status which is the major variable of health-seeking consumption lifestyle, the most of research targets belonged to middle class. There was high rate of consumers who perceive themselves as relatively healthy.
Third, the difference in health-seeking consumption lifestyle was examined according to the socio-demographic variable. As a result, health-seeking consumption lifestyle was much conducted by the group whose age was from 55 to 65, the group with the average monthly household income of over 4 million won, the group with the average monthly expenditure of over 500,000 won on health related consumption, a group that has higher than university for oneself and one’s spouse, and employed housewives. The correlation in social status, perceived health status and health-seeking consumption lifestyle was examined. As a result, the higher social status they had, the more perceived themselves they were healthy, the more health-seeking consumption lifestyle they engaged in.
Fourth, the relative influences of the variable on the health-seeking consumption lifestyle were investigated. As a result, the older age, the higher objective and subjective social status they had, the more physical health-seeking consumption lifestyle they engaged in. In addition, the older age, the more religion they had, the higher objective and subjective social status they had, the more they perceived healthy by comparing with other people of the same age group, the more mental health-seeking consumption lifestyle they engaged in. Finally, the older age, the higher subjective social status they had, the more perceived themselves that they were healthy, the more healthy dietary life seeking consumption lifestyle they engaged in.
This study provided the basic data for a consumer education that lead health-seeking consumption lifestyle to help consumers to become healthy. It also contributed to improvement of consumer welfare by suggesting experience-based data for policy support of the government and marketing strategy of a company in order to make health-seeking consumption lifestyle a way of life.