The Effect of Boredom Proneness on Smartphone Addiction and Impulse Purchasing: A Field Study with Young Consumers in Turkey

dc.contributor.authorBozaci, Ibrahim
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-14T18:10:31Z
dc.date.available2021-01-14T18:10:31Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.departmentKKÜ
dc.descriptionBozaci, Ibrahim/0000-0002-9584-6126
dc.description.abstractThe study seeks to understand the effects of boredom proneness on impulse purchasing and smartphone addiction of young consumers. Moreover, the possible mediating role of smartphone addiction is tested for the effect of boredom proneness on impulse purchasing. Nowadays, the effect of emotions on human behavior is generally accepted, and boredom is one of the important and common problematic feelings or moods at various levels of life due to factors like unemployment, not being able to work in a suitable job, not getting appropriate education matching individual abilities, monotony of tasks, and feeling life is meaningless. Investigating the effect of boredom on specific consumer behavior would increase our knowledge about consumer behavior. For the research, a survey was conducted 313 students from Kirikkale University, Keskin Vocational High School; the data were collected by convenience sampling method. The data were processed through statistical tools like exploratory factor analysis, coefficient alphas, and regression analysis. The results of the study reveal that boredom proneness affects impulse purchasing and smartphone addiction. In addition, it is understood that smartphone addiction plays a mediating role in the effect of boredom proneness on impulse purchasing. These results indicate that boredom can be an important factor affecting certain negative consumer behaviors.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBozacı, İ. (2020). The Effect of Boredom Proneness on Smartphone Addiction and Impulse Purchasing: A Field Study with Young Consumers in Turkey. The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business, 7(7), 509–517.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.13106/jafeb.2020.vol7.no7.509
dc.identifier.endpage517en_US
dc.identifier.issn2288-4637
dc.identifier.issn2288-4645
dc.identifier.issue7en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85090226657
dc.identifier.scopusqualityN/A
dc.identifier.startpage509en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.13106/jafeb.2020.vol7.no7.509
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12587/12654
dc.identifier.volume7en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000548482500048
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/A
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherKOREA DISTRIBUTION SCIENCE ASSOCen_US
dc.relation.ispartofJOURNAL OF ASIAN FINANCE ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectBoredom Pronenessen_US
dc.subjectImpulse Purchaseen_US
dc.subjectSmartphone Addictionen_US
dc.subjectConsumer Healthen_US
dc.titleThe Effect of Boredom Proneness on Smartphone Addiction and Impulse Purchasing: A Field Study with Young Consumers in Turkeyen_US
dc.typeArticle

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