These days, the cosmetics industry faces fierce competition to survive in line with the era of global information. In this circumstance, it is very important for cosmetic companies to understand consumers’ decision-making behavior. In the way of exp...
These days, the cosmetics industry faces fierce competition to survive in line with the era of global information. In this circumstance, it is very important for cosmetic companies to understand consumers’ decision-making behavior. In the way of experiencing dramatically increased advertisements in their everyday life, consumers can have positive or negative feelings.
Types of consumers are diversified, and therefore, the mindshare to captivate consumers’ heart becomes a critical marketing strategy of companies, recently. In addition, consumers have been more interested in the eco-friendly value of cosmetics, rather than their physical value, and they began to lay stress on the social value. To maximize profits through effective marketing, many enterprises focus on finding consumers’ needs or establishing the relationship with them.
Therefore, the purpose of this study is to find the most influential factor when consumers make a decision, to define the influence of decision-making types on cosmetics consumption values and advertising acceptance attitudes, and to provide a fundamental material for the development of the cosmetics advertising industry.
In order to analyze the influence of consumers’ decision-making types on cosmetics consumption values and advertising acceptance attitudes, this researcher had conducted a questionnaire survey with a total of 420 women in their 20s to 50s living in Seoul and Metropolitan areas, from Mar. 3 to Mar. 30, 2019. The analysis results are presented as follows:
Firstly, with regard to the influence of consumers’ decision-making types on cosmetics consumption values, the more there were prudent and intuitive factors among the sub factors of the types, the more social, emotional, and functional values (which are sub factors of consumption values) in order were largely influenced.
Secondly, with regard to the influence of consumers’ decision-making types on advertising acceptance attitudes, the more there were prudent and intuitive factors among the sub factors of the types, the more good intention of advertising, purchase stimulus, information trust, and negative recognition (which are sub factors of advertising acceptance attitudes) were greatly influenced.
Thirdly, with regard to the influence of cosmetics consumption values on advertising acceptance attitudes, the more there was emotional value among the sub factors of cosmetics consumption values, the more good intention of advertising, purchase stimulus, information trust, and negative recognition (which are sub factors of advertising acceptance attitudes) were greatly influenced.
As such, it was found that consumers’ decision-making types were a significant factor influencing cosmetics consumption values and advertising acceptance attitudes positively. To develop the cosmetics industry, it will be necessary to induce and manage consumers through systematic and differentiated advertising in consideration of the characteristics of consumers’ decision-making types. It will be helpful to promote consumers’ purchase through the best service recognized by consumers, and to become a fundamental material of the marketing strategy for competitive cosmetics.
In this study, the influence of consumers’ decision-making types on cosmetics consumption values and advertising acceptance attitudes was analyzed in order to find consumers’ psychology or needs. However, there was lack of direct research on consumption values and advertising acceptance attitudes. The subjects of this study were adult women so that it was hard to extract samples. If the relation and influence of external variables like communication is researched, it will be meaningful.