Consumers’ green involvement and the persuasive effects of emotional versus functional ads.

Autor(en)
Jörg Matthes, Anke Wonneberger, Desiree Schmuck
Abstrakt

This study compares the effects of four types of ads: a functional green ad promoting the environmental advantages of a product, an emotional green ad using a visual representation of pleasant natural scenery, a mixed type green ad using functional and emotional strategies, and a control group. Findings of an experimental study using a representative sample of U.S. consumers suggest that both the emotional and the mixed-type ads significantly affect brand attitude, mediated by attitude toward the ad. These effects do not depend on consumers' green involvement. Functional ads, in contrast, only impact brand attitudes when involvement, measured as green purchase behavior or green product attitudes, is high.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
Journal
Journal of Business Research
Band
67
Seiten
1885-1893
Anzahl der Seiten
9
ISSN
0148-2963
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2013.11.054
Publikationsdatum
09-2014
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
508007 Kommunikationswissenschaft
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Marketing
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/consumers-green-involvement-and-the-persuasive-effects-of-emotional-versus-functional-ads(4756020c-4a9a-49f6-a981-c5e267f863b1).html