Role of Reality TV as a Consumer Socialisation Agent of
Teenagers in a Developing Country
Submitted by:
Md. Ridhwanul Haq
MBA (Marketing), Master (Management), BBA (Marketing)
This thesis is Submitted in Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree
of Doctor of Philosophy of Marketing
School of Marketing
College of Business
University of Western Sydney
August, 2010
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Table of Contents
List of Tables vii
List of Figures x List of Diagrams xi
Abbreviations xii
Certificate of Authorship xiv
Acknowledgements xv
Ethics Approval xvi
Record of Candidature xvii
Dedication xviii
Abstract xix
1 Introduction
1.1 Background to the Research 1 1.2 Research Gaps 2 1.3 Research Problem, Objectives and Hypotheses 4 1.4 Justification of Research 6 1.5 Research Methodology 7 1.6 Outline of the Thesis 8 1.7 Definitions 10 1.8 Delimitations of Scope and Key Assumptions 12 1.9 Conclusion 12
2 Literature Review
2.1 Introduction 13 2.2 Review of Parent and Immediate Disciplines 15 2.3 Development of Marketing Concept - Consumer Orientation 16 2.4 Consumer Behaviour 17 2.5 Socialisation Theories 20 2.5.1 Socialisation Theories from Multidisciplinary Perspectives 21 2.6 Consumer Socialisation Theories 24 2.7 Learning Theories 28
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2.8 Agents of Consumer Socialisation 32 2.8.1 Family (Parents) 33 2.8.2 Peer Group (Friends) 37 2.8.3 Schools 40 2.8.4 Other Socialisation Agents 42 2.8.4.1 Religious Institutions 42 2.8.4.2 Community 43 2.8.5 Media 43 2.9 Media Type 46 2.9.1 Television 48 2.9.2 Media Vehicle 49 2.9.3 TV Vehicle - Reality TV (RTV) 50 2.10 Conclusion 56
3 Conceptual Framework and Hypotheses
3.1 Introduction 58 3.2 Involvement with Media 58 3.2.1 Involvement with Reality TV (RTV) 60 3.3 Key Constructs of Consumer Socialisation 61 3.3.1 Cognition 62 3.3.1.1Consumption Related Cognition Development by Television (RTV Involvement) 63 3.3.2 Attitude 66 3.3.2.1 Consumption Related Attitudes Influenced by Television (RTV Involvement) 67 3.3.3 Values 71 3.3.3.1 Consumption Related Values Transmitted by Television (RTV Involvement) 72
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3.4 Social Structural Variables in Consumer Socialisation 76
3.4.1 Peer Group Influences on RTV Involvement of Teenagers 76 3.4.2 Parental Control on RTV Involvement of Teenagers 79 3.4.3 Gender Differences of Teenagers and RTV Involvement 83 3.4.4 Social Class Theories 86 3.4.4.1 Social Class Differences of Teenagers and their
RTV Involvement 88
3.5 Conclusion 92
4 Research Methodology
4.1 Introduction 97 4.2 Justification of the Methodology - Quantity or Quality 98 4.3 Research Procedure 101 4.3.1 Qualitative 101 4.3.1.1 Sampling for Qualitative Research 102 4.3.1.2 The Focus Group Interviews (FGI) 102 4.3.1.3 Ensuring Rigour 105 4.3.1.4 Data Management and Analysis 106 4.3.2 Need for Quantitative Research 107 4.3.3 Scale Development and Confirmatory Factor Analysis 108 4.3.4 Constructs, Domains and Scale Items 109 4.3.4.1 RTV Involvement 109 4.3.4.2 Consumption Related Cognition 110 4.3.4.3 Consumption Related Attitude 112 4.3.4.4 Consumption Related Values 113 4.3.4.5 Parental Control 114 4.3.4.6 Peer Group Influence 116 4.3.4.7 List of Constructs, Domains and Scale Items 117 4.3.5 Scale Evaluation 120 4.3.6 Questionnaire - the Research Instrument 122 4.3.7 Sample and Sample Size 123 4.3.8 Administration of Questionnaire 125 4.3.9 Data Preparation 126 4.3.10 Data Entry and Screening 126
4.3.11 Structural Equation Modelling and Hypotheses Testing 127 4.4 Ethical Considerations 127
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5 Refinement of Measurement Scales by Qualitative Measures
5.1 Introduction 128 5.2 RTV Involvement 129 5.3 Consumption Related Cognition 134 5.4 Consumption Related Attitude 139 5.5 Consumption Related Values 143 5.6 Social Structural Variables and RTV Involvement of Teenagers 146
5.6.1 Peer Group Influences on RTV Involvement 147 5.6.2 Parental Control on RTV Involvement 150 5.7 Social Class and Gender Differences of Teenagers and their RTV
Involvement and Consumer Socialisation 153 5.7.1 Social Class Differences and RTV Involvement of Teenagers 153 5.7.2 Gender Differences and RTV Involvement of Teenagers 155 5.8 Conclusion 157
6 Assessment and Refinement of Measurement Scales by Quantitative
Measures
6.1 Introduction 165 6.2 Sample Characteristics 165 6.3 Assessment of Measurement Scales 171 6.4 Results of Exploratory Factor Analysis 172 6.5 Measurement Model Evaluation and Specification 178 6.5.1 Deciding Goodness-of-Fit Criteria 179 6.5.2 Testing the Measurement Model Fit 181 6.6 Assessment of Measurement Scales Using CFA 182 6.6.1 CFA results of ‘Parental Control’ 184 6.6.2 CFA results of ‘Peer Group Influences’ 186 6.6.3 CFA results of ‘RTV Involvement’ 188 6.6.4 CFA results of ‘Consumption Related Cognition’ 190 6.6.5 CFA results of ‘Consumption Related Attitude’ 192 6.6.6 CFA results of ‘Consumption Related Values’ 195
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6.7 Reliability and Validity of Constructs 197
6.7.1 Reliability 197 6.7.2 Reliability of Constructs 198 6.7.3 Item Reliability 199 6.7.4 Validity 200
7 Testing the Theoretical Model and Hypotheses
7.1 Structural Model Evaluation 202
7.1.1 Assessment of the Distribution of the Variables 202 7.1.2 Estimating the Proposed Model 204 7.1.3 Modifying the Model 205 7.1.4 Estimating the Main Model and Test Hypotheses 206 7.1.5 Testing Hypotheses of the Main Model 210 7.1.6 Interpretation/Discussion of Empirical Results 211
7.2 Conclusion 223
8 Conclusions
8.1 Overview 226 8.2 Contribution of this Research 227 8.2.1 Implication for Theory 228 8.2.2 Implication for Methodology 230 8.2.3 Implications for the Policy and Practice 230 8.3 Limitations 232 8.4 Implications for Further Research 233 8.5 Specific Conclusions from the Findings of This Research Regarding the Research Question and Hypotheses 235 8.6 Conclusion 236
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References 237 Appendix 1: Questionnaire 280
Appendix 2: Flyer for Volunteers 287
Appendix 3: Research Protocol 289
Appendix 4: Participant Consent Form 292
Appendix 5: Focus Group Discussion Script 294
Appendix 6: Parental Consent Form 297
Appendix 7: Permission from Schools in Dhaka 299
Appendix 8: A proposed Model for this Research 302
Appendix 9: Computer Output of the SEM Analysis of the Empirically Tested
Model (Main Model) 305
Appendix 10: Multi-Group Analysis Output of Gender Differences 308
Appendix 11: Multi-Group Analysis Output of Social Class Differences 313
Appendix 12: List of Constructs and Variables 318
Appendix 13: Questionnaire (Bengali Version) 321
Appendix 14: List of Middle and Lower Social Class Suburbs 327
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List of Tables
Serial No Name of the Table Page No
2.1 Parent-Children Communication Patterns 35
2.2 Classification of Media 46
2.3 Features of Various Media 47
2.4 Classification of reality TV (RTV) 50
2.5 Domain of RTV Observables and Their Dimensions 55
3.1 Comparison between Boys and Girls’ Involvement with TV
shows
84
3.2 List of Constructs, Domains and Scale Items Adapted from
Literature
93
4.1 Domain of Scale Items of RTV Involvement 110
4.2 Domain of Scale Items of Consumption Related Cognition 112
4.3 Domain of Scale Items of Consumption Related Attitude 113
4.4 Domain of Scale Items of Consumption Related Values 114
4.5 Domain of Scale Items of Parental Control on TV 115
4.6 Domain of Scale Items of Peers Group Influences 116
4.7 List of Constructs, Domains and Scale Items 117
5.1 List of Constructs, Domains and Scale Items 157
5.2 Teenagers’ Favourite RTV shows (Number within parenthesis
indicating number of times mentioned by respondents)
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5.3 The Compressed Assembly of Data based on FGIs 162
6.1 Distribution of Respondents by Gender Differences 166
6.2 Distribution of Respondents by Age Groups 166
6.3 Distribution of Respondents by Academic Class 166
6.4 Distribution of Respondents List by Social Classes 167
6.5 A Cross-Tabulation of teenagers’ Parents Social Class and
Their Education
168
6.6 A Cross-Tabulation of teenagers’ Parents Social Class and 169
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Their Occupation
6.7 A Cross-Tabulation of teenagers’ Parents Social Class and
Their Annual Income
170
6.8 Factors, Variables and Factor Loading 173
6.9 Retained Factors, Variables and Factor Loading 177
6.10 Summary of Reliability, Weights, and Fit Indices Used in this
Research
179
6.11 Summary of Standardised Estimates Used for CFA Models 181
6.12 List of Variables 183
6.13 Regression Weights of Parental Control 184
6.14 Standard Regression Weights, Goodness-of-Fits Estimates and
Composite Reliability of the Parental Control
185
6.15 Regression Weights of Peer Group Influences 187
6.16 Standard Regression Weights, Goodness-of- Fits Estimates and
Composite Reliability of the Peer Group Influences
187
6.17 Regression Weights of RTV Involvement 189
6.18 Standard Regression Weights, Goodness-of-Fits Estimates and
Composite Reliability of the RTV Involvement
189
6.19 Regression Weights of Consumption Related Cognition 191
6.20 Standard Regression Weights, Goodness-of -Fits Estimates and
Composite Reliability of the Consumption Related Cognition
191
6.21 Regression Weights of Consumption Related Attitude 193
6.22 Standard Regression Weights, Goodness-of -Fits Estimates and
Composite Reliability of the Consumption Related Attitude
194
6.23 Regression Weights of Consumption Related Values 195
6.24 Standard Regression Weights, Goodness-of -Fits Estimates and
Composite Reliability of the Consumption Related Values
196
6.25 Construct Reliability of Scale Items 198
6.26 Multiple Correlation Coefficients 199
7.1 Assessment of Normality 203
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7.2 Fitness of Measure for the Proposed Model 204
7.3 Fitness of Measure for the Main Model 207
7.4 Comparisons of Fit Measures for Main and Proposed Model 208
7.5 Standard Estimates for the Main Model 210
7.6 Goodness-of-Fits Estimates of Male and Female 217
7.7 Cross Validation Statistics - Gender 218
7.8 Multi-Group Analysis of Gender Differences on Consumer
Socialisation
218
7.9 Goodness-of-Fits Estimates of Middle and Lower Social Class 220
7.10 Cross Validation Statistics - Social Class 221
7.11 Multi-Group Analysis of Social Class Differences on Consumer
Socialisation
222
7.12 Summary of the Research Findings 224
8.1 List of Research Objectives for this Research 226
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List of Figures
Serial No Name of the Figure Page No
2.1 Relationships of Parent and Immediate Disciplines 15
2.2 Domains of Consumer Behaviour 18
2.3 Conceptual Model of Consumer Socialisation 26
2.4 Components of Observational Learning 31
3.1 Outcomes of Consumer Socialisation 62
3.2 Proposed Model of Consumer Socialisation of
Teenagers’ by RTV (CSRTV) 93
4.1 Qualitative Data Analysis Process 107
6.1 CFA Model of Parental Control 184
6.2 CFA Model of Peer Group Influences 186
6.3 CFA Model of RTV Involvement 188
6.4 CFA Model of Consumption Related Cognition 191
6.5 CFA Model of Consumption Related Attitude 193
6.6 CFA Model of Consumption Related Values 195
7.1 Proposed Model of CSRTV 205
7.2 Main Model of CSRTV 208
7.3 The Empirically Tested Model of CSRTV (Main Model) 223
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List of Diagrams
Serial No Name of the Diagrams Page no
2.1 Links among Socialisation, Communications, and Offspring
Outcomes
36
3.1 Links between Media Motives, Involvement and Media Use
and Effects
59
3.2 Links between Media Motives, Cognitive and Affective
Involvement, Media Use/Effects
59
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Abbreviations
AC Actual Counts
ATT Attitude
ANOVA Analysis of Variance
AMOS A SEM Software
A Coefficient Alpha
AGFI Adjusted Goodness-of-Fit Index
B Boys
CR Critical Ratio
CFA Confirmatory Factor Analysis
Cog Cognition
CSRTV Consumer Socialisation by Reality Televisions
CFI Comparative Fit Index
DF Degrees of Freedom
EC Expected Counts
E Error
EQS A SEM Software
EFA Exploratory Factor Analysis
F Factor
G Girls
GFI Goodness-of-fit Index
INV Involvement
LISERAL A SEM Software
ML Maximum Likelihood
MP3 Moving Picture Experts Group Layer-3 Audio
MNC Multi-National Companies
NFI Normed Fit Index
PI Peer Group Influences
PC Parental Control
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P (%) Percentage
P Probability Level
RMSEA Root Mean Square Error of Approximation
RTV Reality Television
SEM Structural Equation Modelling
SMS Short Message Service
SPSS Statistical Package for Social System
SMC Square Multiple Co-relation
SRW (Beta) Standard Regression Weight
TLI Tucker Lewis Fit Index
TV Television
TVC Television Commercial
VAL Values
X2 (df,,p) Chi-square
X2�df Normed Chi-square
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Certificate of Authorship
I hereby declare that this submission is my own work and that, to the best of my
knowledge and belief, it contains no material published or written by another person nor
material which to a substantial extent has been approved or accepted for the award of
any other degree or diploma of a university or other institution of higher learning,
except where due acknowledgement is made in the acknowledgement.
Md. Ridhwanul Haq
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Acknowledgements
Firstly, I would like to express my gratefulness to Almighty Allah who made this work
possible for me. I am also cordially thankful to a number of kind-hearted individuals
and organisations whose contributions either made the completion of this research
possible or helped make the final output better.
I would especially like to thank my principal supervisor Dr. Syed H. Rahman for his
excellent supervision. He took maximum interest in the research project. His guidance
and constructive criticism, quick response to the problems and encouragement during
the entire period of the study, together with careful reading and correcting of the drafts
of the report, is sincerely acknowledged. Without his close guidance it would have been
never possible to complete this research project within the time frame it has been
completed.
To my associate supervisor, Dr. Felicitas Evangelista, I express my sincere thanks. She
gave her valuable insights and feedback on all phases of this research.
I appreciate the concerned authorities of the respective schools in Dhaka, who permitted
me to conduct Focus Group Interviews (FGIs) and survey in their schools. Also this
research could not have been completed without the assistance of the interview and
survey participants, who patiently gave their time and shared their valuable experiences
and knowledge with me. They deserve big thanks.
Special thanks to other academics and administrative staff in the school of Marketing
particularly; John Stanton, Laural Jackson, Aila Khan and Kaylene bailey for giving me
support and encouragement to complete this research project. Also thanks to all my
family members, relatives, friends, students and colleagues at home and abroad who
wish me well for this research. I must thank Stephen Dicks for his comments and
editing of this thesis.
I thank my wife Sohana for her continual support. I express my deepest love and sorry
to my little angel Najat to whom I hardly gave time and care during this period.
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Ethics Approval
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Record of Candidature
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This Ph.D thesis is dedicated to my father Md. Shamsul Haque
and mother Nurun Nahar Haque with love and gratitude.
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Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Background to the Research
Consumer socialisation is a process by which young people acquire skills, knowledge
and attitude relevant to their functioning as consumers in the market place. Generally,
consumer socialisation refers to what behaviour teenage children learn from different
socialisation agents and how those behaviours are associated with purchase as well as
use of goods and services. In recent consumer socialisation research, teenagers are the
key focus of various researchers (Anderson et al. 2001; Chan & McNeal 2006a) as
growth of the teenaged market segment has got the attention of the researchers and
marketing practitioners (Blackwell et al. 2007). Particularly, the size of the teenaged
population is quite large in developing countries (1.6 billion), compared with developed
countries (240 million) (Population Reference Bureau 2006). Furthermore, the teenaged
population is the major proportion of most of the developing countries total population
(Quraishi, Bhuiya & Mohammad 2004). This teenaged population is considered to be a
lucrative market by marketers due to their purchasing patterns and consumption related
behaviour (Zolo 2004). Teenagers of developing countries are also getting the attention
of the marketing practitioners as an emerging market segment (Bhosale & Gupta 2006).
Consumer socialisation theorists have also extensively researched the effect of
socialisation agents on teenaged children (Avrahami 1995; Lueg & Finney 2007). In the
extant consumer socialisation researches media, parents, schools and peer groups are
considered to be the most common socialisation agents. Specifically, as one of the
consumer socialisation agents, teenagers’ involvement with the media and its affect on
teenagers’ consumption related behaviour has received a lot of attention from the
researchers (Butterbaugh 1999; Chan & McNeal 2006a). It has been established by the
researchers that media, particularly TV, develops teenagers’ consumption related
cognition; influences consumption related attitudes and transmits consumption related
values (Chan 2003; Moschis & Moore 1978; Schmoll et al. 2006). Teenagers in
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developing countries are also showing interest in various media (Bhosale & Gupta
2006; Yoon & Garma 2006). These days, not only in developed countries but also in
developing countries, teenagers are getting involved with TV, particularly with reality
TV (RTV), a new generation of TV (Tedesco 2007; Yoon & Garma 2006). Reality TV
(RTV) is a form of TV programming which represents purportedly unscripted dramatic
or humorous situations, documents actual events, and features ordinary people instead
of professional actors. Particularly, different content and the format of RTV show the
influence of teenagers’ involvement which ultimately affects their consumption related
behaviour (Adams, Sutherland & Johnson 2007; Idato 2007).
However, most of the research on consumer socialisation so far has been from the
perspective of developed countries or from western cultural settings (Dotson & Hyatt
2005; John 1999; Neeley 2005). Consumer socialisation of teenagers has rarely been
examined from the perspective of developing countries (Bhosale & Gupta 2006).
Teenagers in developed countries grow up differently as a consumer, than their
developing countries' counterparts. In the context of this research, it has been addressed
that accessibility and availability of various media are comparatively higher in
teenagers of developed countries than developing countries (Mark 1998). Furthermore,
due to socio-economic structural differences, the consumer socialisation takes place
differently among the teenagers in developing countries than their counterparts in
developed countries (Choi & Ferle 2004; Erametsa 1990). This research will contribute
towards plugging this gap in the existing literature.
1.2 Research Gaps
As has already been mentioned most research on consumer socialisation is focused on
developed countries. Little attention has been given to the developing countries in this
regard. This is one of the major gaps in current consumer socialisation research. There
are also a number of other gaps observed in the current literature of consumer
socialisation, which this research will try to address. Firstly, there is no empirically
tested model of consumer socialisation of teenagers by RTV involvement in the
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literature (Yoon & Garma 2006). Secondly, parental control, peer group influences,
gender and social class differences of teenagers that are considered as social structural
variables of consumer socialisation have been mostly researched from the perspective
of developed countries, but are rarely examined from the perspective of developing
countries (Cogdon 2007; Lueg & Finney 2007). Current literatures show that teenagers’
gender and social class influence their involvement with media which ultimately affect
their consumer socialisation. Particularly, teenagers both boys and girls in developed
countries enjoy equal opportunity and access to different media (Jung & Peterson 2007;
Moschis & Churchill 1978). On the other hand, teenagers in developing countries have
comparatively lower access and options to different media than their developed
countries counterparts (Nath 2006). Furthermore, boys have more access and
opportunity of getting involved with media than girls in developing countries (Nath
2006). Current literature also shows that in developed countries parents play moderating
roles in teenagers’ media involvement (Neeley 2005). On the other hand, teenagers’
media involvements are closely supervised by their parents in developing countries
(Cardoza 2002). However, peer group in developed countries immensely influences
teenagers’ perception towards media and this has also been researched only in
developed countries but rarely in developing countries (Byoungkwan Salmon & Hye-
Jin 2007).
Finally, applicability of the measurement scale items of the socialisation agent, RTV
involvement and the key outcome variables of consumer socialisation, e.g.,
consumption related cognition, and attitude and values of teenagers have not been
established. These measurement scale items have been mostly developed based on other
media research (Bartlett, Griffiths & Badian 2008; Schomoll et al. 2006; Chan 2003;
Yoon & Garma 2006), that has not been tested in case of Reality TV (RTV). RTV is a
generation of media which unlike traditional TV programs presents purportedly
unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and features
ordinary people instead of professional actors (Lundy & Jacobson 2008). This involves
interactivity between the programs and the audience, often live. Moreover, RTV also
differ from main stream TV programming in terms of its format, reward system and
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layout (Bown 2008; Frutkin 2008; James 2007). Though there is no known difference
between developed and developing countries regarding RTV format, reward system and
layout, there is significant difference in the nature of teenagers’ involvement in RTV.
Based on their research Cardoza (2002) and Nath (2006) concluded that developing
country teenagers’ show different levels of involvement with the media than their
developed country counterparts. This is due to the relatively lesser access of the
developing country teenagers’ to the electronic media to watch RTV as well as to
participate directly in RTV programs via SMS, internet or telephone calls during live
programs.
1.3 Research Problem, Objectives and Hypotheses
The problem addressed in this research is:
How does teenagers’ involvement with reality television (RTV) affect their
consumer socialisation?
Based on the above research problem, the following are the objectives of this research,
which links to the theory examined in chapter two:
1. To develop and test a model of the consumer socialisation of teenagers of a
developing country by RTV.
2. To determine how RTV affects the consumer socialisation of teenagers in a
developing country.
3. To determine how teenagers’ social class differences, their gender differences,
peer group and parental control influence the role of RTV in their consumer
socialisation.
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The following hypotheses are developed on the basis of current literature which was
tested in this research:
H1: There is a positive impact of RTV involvement on consumption related cognition.
H2: There is a positive impact of RTV involvement on consumption related attitude.
H3: There is a positive impact of consumption related cognition on consumption related
attitude.
H4: There is a positive impact of RTV involvement on consumption related values.
H5: There is a positive impact of consumption related values on consumption related
attitude.
H6: There is a positive impact of peer groups influences on teenagers’ RTV
involvement.
H7: Parents through communication, mediation and instruction positively influence
teenagers’ RTV involvement.
H8: There is a difference between male and female teenagers’ involvement with RTV
and its effect on their consumer socialisation.
H9: There is a difference between middle and lower social class teenagers’ involvement
with RTV and its effect on their consumer socialisation.
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1.4 Justification of Research
There is a lot of literature on the consumer socialisation of teenaged children (Lueg &
Finney 2007; Neeley 2005). Specifically, TV as a consumer socialisation agent of
teenagers has received a lot of attention by the researchers in the developed countries
(Butterbaugh 1999; Fletcher 2006), but has been largely overlooked from the
developing countries’ perspective. RTV in particular, has become the most popular TV
vehicle and recent phenomenon (Bellafante 2008; Scardino 2005), but has not received
much attention from academics and researchers (Yoon & Garma 2006). The countries
of the world are large in number. They are also varied in nature and complexity, and
developing countries are surely different from developed ones. Accordingly,
understanding the role of RTV in the consumer socialisation of teenagers in a
developing country, as well as how this socialisation varies in two social classes is
critical for further theory building. Findings of this research will contribute towards
that.
So far, the increasing role of TV as a consumer socialisation agent of teenagers in
developed countries has been recognised by [the] researchers (Dubow, Huesmann &
Greenwood 2007). However, even in the developed countries no empirically tested
model of consumer socialisation by TV has been developed. Moreover, in the recent
trend as a TV vehicle, RTV has received serious attention from teenagers (Peters 2007;
Powell 2003), but not much information is found in the current literature, particularly in
a developing country like Bangladesh. One of the key theoretical contributions of this
research will be to develop and test such a model.
Despite substantial interest in TV’s role in the consumer socialisation of teenagers,
particularly in the developed countries, empirical research on consumption knowledge,
skills, attitudes and values that are transmitted by TV to teenagers is quite limited. The
scales that were developed and tested in this research can enable measurement of
consumer socialisation by the media for future research. One category of applications
relates to the use of RTV involvement and influence measures on outcome variables.
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Another set of applications of the measure was related to the study of the causal effects
of RTV involvement and its influence on a range of variables such as consumption
related cognition, attitudes and values. The scales developed in this research also will
help to examine the role of referents like parents and peers on the consumer
socialisation.
Various researchers (Carlson, Laczniak & Walsh 2001; Kamaruddin & Mokhlis 2003;
Mark 1998) have given importance to social class differences, gender differences,
parental involvement and peer group influences as social structural variables while
studying consumer socialisation. Kamaruddin and Mokhlis (2003) have recognised the
significance of social classes while studying consumer socialisation issues. However,
not much has been reported in the literature. Similarly, the gender difference of
teenagers (Wolin 2003), parental control and peer group influences on TV vehicle
selection (Cogdon 2007; Lueg & Finney 2007; Wiman 1983) play a vital role in the
consumer socialisation of teenagers. But not much has been reported on any of these
issues in the current literature from the developing countries perspective. Findings of
this research will help to plug these gaps in the comparative understanding of teenagers
of different social classes within a country.
Findings of this research will also help current and future marketing practitioners,
media strategists, sponsors and researchers who operate or may operate in the future in
a developing country, particularly if their target market segment is teenaged children.
1.5 Research Methodology
This research adopts a positivist approach. The objective of this research has been to
identify how RTV as a socialisation agent, influences the teenaged consumers’
socialisation. In addition, the study also aims to assess the effects of social class
differences, gender differences, parental control and peer group influences on the role of
RTV as a consumer socialisation agent. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches
were adopted. Qualitative research was adopted at the exploratory stage, using focus
group interviews (FGIs) of teenagers, representing urban middle and lower socio-
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economic classes in a developing country. The purpose of these focus group interviews
(FGIs) was to refine the existing constructs and their measurement scale items, making
them relevant to a developing country.
Based on the existing literature and qualitative research findings, a quantitative survey
instrument was developed. This instrument was administered among a representative
sample of the urban middle and the lower socio-economic class teenagers of a
developing country with proportional representation of both genders. The target
population for the study was the urban teenagers (13-19 years). Using a stratified
sampling method, data was gathered from 400 respondents. The collected data was
analysed using exploratory factor analysis followed by confirmatory factor analysis.
Furthermore, the framework of the consumer socialisation by RTV was tested, using
quantitative multivariate technique, structural equation modelling (SEM).
1.6 Outline of the Thesis
This thesis is divided into 8 chapters. This chapter contains the introduction, the other
chapters are: chapter 2- literature review, chapter 3- conceptual framework and
hypotheses, chapter 4- research methodology, chapter 5- refinement of measurement
scales by qualitative measures, chapter 6- assessments and refinement of measurement
scales by quantitative measures, chapter 7- testing the theoretical model and
hypotheses, and chapter 8- conclusion.
Chapter 2 provides a theoretical foundation upon which the research is based (a review
of the relevant literature). Further, the purpose of chapter 3 is to draw and consolidate
knowledge from different related literature in an effort to develop a model of consumer
socialisation of teenagers, as well as to evaluate the affect of social structural variables
(e.g., social class differences, gender differences, parental control and peer group
influences on RTV vehicle involvement) by RTV. A range of theories were examined to
draw research problems covering issues that underpin the research questions and
hypotheses.
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Chapter 4 describes the methodology that was used to collect and analyse the data to
address the research problem, research objectives and hypotheses. In this research, both
qualitative and quantitative methods were used, the rationale of which, along with other
aspects of the methodology, was justified. This chapter describes the sampling, data
gathering methods, research instruments, data management, and analysis and evaluation
methods in the research. This chapter also describes the quantitative data analysis
method, SEM, and the SEM software AMOS that was used for quantitative data
analysis. Chapter 4 also includes an analysis of the ethical issues concerning the
research.
As has been already mentioned, both qualitative and quantitative methods of research
were used in this study. The measurement scale items which were developed on the
basis of literature review were subjected to a qualitative study to determine its
applicability to the population of interest, e.g., teenagers of a developing country.
Chapter 5 describes the findings of the qualitative research.
Qualitative research findings were further explored through quantitative technique.
Chapter 6 reports on assessments and refinement of measurement scale items by
quantitative measures. Whereas, chapter 7 reports on test results of the theoretical
model and hypotheses.
Chapter 8 concludes and highlights the contribution of this research both in academic
and practical terms and identifies potential areas for future research.
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1.7 Definitions
Definitions adopted by researchers are often not uniform, so the key terms used in
research reports need to be defined. The following definitions and concepts are some of
the key terms that will be used in this report.
Socialisation: “The process by which someone learns the ways of a given society or
social group so that they can function within it” Elkin and Handel (1972, p. 4).
Consumer Socialisation: “Consumer socialisation is a process by which young people
acquires skills, knowledge and attitudes relevant to their functioning as consumers in
the market place” Neal, Quester and Hawkins (2004, p.434).
Media Vehicle: “Media vehicles are specific media within each general media type,
such as specific magazines, TV shows or radio programs” (Kotler et al. 2007).
Media Content: “Media content is entertainment, violence, sex, and informational
issues which are shown in the media vehicle” (Bushman 2005).
Reality TV (RTV): “RTV is a generation of TV programming which represents
purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents, actual events, and
features ordinary people instead of professional actors” (Deziel 2004).
Involvement: “A person’s perceived relevance to the object based on inherent needs,
values, and interest” (Zaichkowsky 1985).
Cognition: “Cognition is the mental processes involved in gaining knowledge and
comprehension; including thinking, knowing, remembering, judging, and problem
solving” (Wagner 2008).
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Consumption related cognition: Is the mental processes involved in gaining
knowledge and comprehension; including thinking, knowing, remembering, judging,
problem solving and skill development regarding products and brands consumption
(developed for this thesis).
Attitude: “An enduring combination of motivational, emotional, perceptual and
cognitive process with respect to some aspect of our environment, such as other people,
places, ideas, products, etc” (Neal, Quester & Hawkins 2004).
Consumption related attitude: An enduring combination of motivational, emotional,
perceptual and cognitive process with respect to imitation, fashion, inspiration and
product placement, (developed for this thesis).
Values: “Values are shared beliefs among group members as to what behaviours are
desirable or undesirable” (Pope, Brennan & Voges 2007, p. 335).
Consumption related values: Are shared beliefs among group members as to what
behaviours are desirable or undesirable towards products, prohibited product
consumption, materialism and anti-social behaviour, (developed for this thesis).
Construct: “A hypothetical variable made up of a set of component responses or
behaviours that are thought to be related” (Hair, Bush & Ortinau 2006, p.353).
Domain: “The set of identifiable and measurable components associated with an
abstract construct” (Hair, Bush & Ortinau 2006, p.354).
Model: “A model is a representation of the most important elements of a perceived real
world system” (Naert & Leflang 1978, p.9).
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1.8 Delimitations of Scope and Key Assumptions
Like any other research, this research also has its limitations:
Firstly, this research was carried out in Bangladesh, a developing country. Due to
cultural and socio-economic differences, findings of this study cannot be held generally
applicable as representative of other developing countries. Further research in other
developing countries will be needed.
Secondly, this research involved a comparative study between middle and lower social
classes, and although there is a small urban high social class in Bangladesh the findings
of this research does not represent that class.
Thirdly, this research was conducted only among urban teenagers and as such, does not
represent rural teenagers. Future research may be conducted among that segment of the
population.
Finally, a large number of migrants of Bangladeshi origin are now living in different
parts of the world. Future research may be conducted among the children of those
migrants to see the effect of acculturation.
1.9 Conclusion
This chapter has laid the foundation for this report. In this chapter the research
objectives and the hypotheses have been introduced and the need for this research
justified. It has also briefly described and justified the methodology used in this
research. Definitions of the key terms have been presented, limitations described, and
the report has been outlined. With this foundation, the report has proceeded to give a
detailed description of the research.
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Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 Introduction
Teenagers are an emerging market segment these days. This has made it crucial for the
researchers and practitioners in the field to understand the teenaged consumers’ learning
and their response process. Consumer socialisation theorists (Chan 2006; John 1999;
Lueg & Finney 2007) have extensively researched the effect of socialisation agents on
teenaged children to explore the process and outcomes of consumer socialisation.
Specifically, as a consumer socialisation agent; electronic media received serious
attention from researchers (Frideres 1973; Dotson & Hyatt 2005; Vakratsas & Ambler
1999). Also during this period teenagers as a market segment have received increasing
research attention (Bhosale & Gupta 2006; Lueg & Finney 2007). However, most of the
theories built so far, focus on developed countries or from the perspective of western
cultural settings (Dotson & Hyatt 2005; John 1999; Neeley 2005), but not much
theoretical and empirical contribution has been made on consumer socialisation in the
context of developing countries (Bhosale & Gupta 2006). Also, behavioural differences
in this regard between teenaged children from different social class backgrounds within
the same cultural context have not received much attention from researchers. Moreover,
as social structural variables, social class differences, gender differences, parental
control and peer group influences on teenagers’ media involvement have got the
attention researchers (Edward & Grantham 2009; Fujioka & Austin 2002; Keith 1986;
Kim & Shin 1996), but absence of these issues are also observed in the developing
countries consumer socialisation research.
The countries of the world are large in number (195) (About.com 2010). They are also
varied in nature and complexity, and developing countries are surely different from
developed ones. Accordingly, understanding the role of media in the consumer
socialisation of teenagers in a developing country, as well as how consumer
socialisation varies between social classes and genders, is critical for further theory
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building. It is particularly important as the huge size of the teenaged market segment
and impressive growth of electronic media are observed in developing countries
(Bhosale & Gupta 2006; Quraishi, Bhuiya & Mohammad 2004). Teenagers are chosen
in this research not only because of the huge size of this segment in developing
countries but also because they are in the early phase in learning and formatting their
consumer behaviour. Current literatures suggest that teenagers’ learning capacity and
cognitive development, consumption related beliefs and values are significantly
influenced by media (Chernin 2005; Cram & NG 1999; Gruber & Thau 2000; Lueg and
Finney 2007). Teenagers are chosen in this research not only because of the huge size of
this segment in developing countries but also because they are in the early phase in
learning and forming their consumer behaviour. Current literatures suggest that
teenagers’ learning capacity and cognitive development, consumption related beliefs
and values are significantly influenced by media (Chernin 2005; Cram & NG 1999;
Gruber & Thau 2000; Lueg and Finney 2007). Further, theory building in this area is
also important in developing countries, where the population is relatively young. For
example, the total teenaged population in developing countries is 1,537 million,
compared to only 236 million in developed countries (Population Reference Bureau
2006). One such developing country, Bangladesh has 23% (40 million) of its total
population in the 10-19 age group, which is the biggest segment of it’s population
(Quraishi, Bhuiya & Mohammad 2004). The growth of media, particularly electronic
media is also quite impressive in Bangladesh (Nath 2006). Accordingly, the key
problem this research will address is:
How does teenagers’ involvement with reality television (RTV) affect their
consumer socialisation?
In this chapter, a review of the literature from several key areas will build a theoretical
foundation for the research. The focus of this review is to draw and consolidate
knowledge from different related literature, in an effort to synthesise a model of
consumer socialisation of teenagers by reality television (RTV). Theories from several
disciplines will be examined in order to develop hypotheses for this research and
identify relevant constructs and their domain and measurement items.
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2.2 Review of Parent and Immediate Disciplines
Given the large number of disciplinary literatures that have bearing in some way on this
research, only the critical antecedents have been examined. This chapter introduces
some major disciplines, including parent discipline, on which this research is built.
Figure 2.1 depicts the parent and immediate disciplines underpinning this study and
their interrelationships.
Figure 2.1 Relationships of Parent and Immediate Disciplines
Development of marketing concept-consumer orientation
Socialisation and consumer socialisation theories
Consumer behaviour
Learning theories and Social learning theory
Agents of consumer socialisation
Consumer socialisation
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2.3 Development of Marketing Concept - Consumer
Orientation
Marketing has been defined as “an organisational function and a set of processes for
creating, communicating, and delivering value to the customer and for managing
customer relationships in ways that benefit the organisation and its stakeholder” (Kotler
et al. 2007, p.7). For decades there have been outcries that the consumer has been
mistreated, but marketing concept, a marketing philosophy that evolved in the late
1950s, not only focuses on consumer requirements, but also protects consumers’ rights
(Bell & Emory 1971). However, different alternative marketing philosophies that have
been followed in the real world; a) production concept, b) product concept, c) selling
concept, d) marketing concept and e) societal marketing concept. The Marketing
concept is crucial and contemporary among these concepts. Marketing management
philosophy holds that achieving organisational goals depends on determining the needs
and wants of target markets and delivering the desired satisfaction more effectively and
efficiently than competitors. Broadly, Marketing concept (market orientation) is
concerned with the processes and activities associated with creating and satisfying
customers by continually assessing their needs and wants, and doing so in a way that
there is a demonstrable and measurable impact on business performance (Uncles 2000).
Most of the literature of marketing concept concentrated on explaining the need of
companies to devote more time and effort to the requirements for their customers. The
extant literature also agreed with this concept because an adequate understanding of
consumers’ needs and wants by organisations could lead to better performance such as
growth in resources, higher customer satisfaction, and growth in reputation (Gainer &
Padanyl 2002; McClymont, Ogunmokun & Akbari 2004).
Overall, development of marketing concept prevails over the consumerism issues that
also cover the point of consumers’ preferences, rights, and above all, interest.
Therefore, understanding consumer behaviour is a pivotal issue for better practice of
marketing concept.
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2.4 Consumer Behaviour
The extant literature indicates that the marketing concept upholds the consumer benefit
philosophy. Precisely, the classic feature of marketing concept is to focus on ‘benefit
approach’ of consumers (Evans, Jamal & Foxall 2006). Therefore, understanding
consumer behaviour is the prerequisite to offer benefit for consumers. Understanding
the following concepts are rudimentary, before discussing the thoughts and managerial
approaches of consumer behaviour:
• Consumer: The consumer can be defined as “a person who identifies a need or
desire, makes a purchase, and/or disposes of the product” (Solomon 2004, p
596). Furthermore, Foxall (1993) suggested from the theoretical point of view
that consumers are represented in two ways: a) learning history of consumers
that includes the reward and punishment experiences from the past behaviour
and b) state variables that influence consumption decisions.
• Consumption:
Consumption is an activity where people use products and services in a
variety of ways that can be classified in four categories: a) consuming as
experience (an emotional or aesthetic consumption of objects), b)
consuming as integration (learning and manipulating consumption objects
to express aspects of the self or society), c) consumption as classification
(the activities that consumers engage in to communicate their association
with objects, both to self and to others), d) consuming as play (consumers
use objects to participate in a mutual experience and merge their identities
with that of a group) (Solomon 2004).
• Behaviour: Solomon (2004) mentions that, behaviour is consumers’ actions
with regard to an attitude object. Neal, Quester & Hawkins (2004) also added
that consumers learn from previous experiences and behave accordingly, as well
as these; behaviours could be the result of active and passive learning processes.
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In the extant literature, consumer behaviour is valued as multidisciplinary knowledge,
which is also considered as an applied science drawing from economics (e.g.,
understanding consumers spending, product evaluation skills), psychology (e.g.,
studying consumers’ motivation, perception, learning patterns), sociology (e.g.,
consumers behaviour in group), anthropology (e.g., core beliefs, values, customs of
consumers) and other disciplines (Blackwell et al. 2007; Schiffman et al. 2005). By
supporting this precedent; Hoyer and Maclnnis (2007) proposed four domains of
consumer behaviour.
Figure 2.2 Domains of Consumer Behaviour (Source: Hoyer & Maclnnis 2007)
To make purchasing decisions that affect outcomes like buying a new product or using a
product for symbolic reasons, consumers must first engage in the process explained in
the psychological core. Consumers need to be motivated, able, and have the opportunity
to be exposed to perceive and attend to information. Moreover, consumers need to think
about this information, develop attitudes and form memories about any response.
Similarly, the cultural environment also motivates consumers about how they process
information and the kind of decisions they make.
Physiological core Process of decision making Consumer’s culture Consumer behaviour outcome
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Overall, the study of consumer behaviour is based on mainly two models a) cognitive
development models and b) a social learning model that also refers to the area of
socialisation and consumer socialisation (John 1999; Moschis & Churchilll 1978). In
general, traditional consumer behaviour theories incorporate the examination, analysis
and the application of perceptual theory of marketing stimuli. Overall, theories of
consumer behaviour can be broadly categorised into three areas (Bareham 2004):
• Consumers are information processors who engages in a rational, scientific,
deliberate and cognitive process leading to a purchase choice.
• Consumer behaviour is learned and as a result much is the result of habit.
• After the post-modern perspective, it is assumed the consumer does not
follow rules, is unlikely to be predictable, and may change their purchase
strategy from occasion to occasion.
In reality, consumer behaviour reflects the totality of consumers’ decisions with respect
to the acquisition, consumption and disposition of goods, services, activities, and ideas
by (human) decision making units. The issues of consumer behaviour are the sequence
of acquisition (refers to the activities leading up to and including the purchase or receipt
of a product), consumption (refers to how, where, when, and under what circumstances
consumers use the product) and disposition (how do consumers dispose the product?)
for the marketers (Blackwell et al. 2007; Chan 2006).
Furthermore, from the marketers’ point of view, understanding consumer behaviour is
like understanding the problem. Marketers keep in mind that consumer behaviour also
varies in terms of consumers’ age differences; family structure, social class and gender
differences (Kamaruddin & Mokhlis 2003). Interestingly, understanding teenaged
consumer behaviour has become critical for marketers these days, as this segment is
growing very fast. Young consumers socialise their consumption related learning in
different ways from various sources, then behave accordingly as a consumer (Dotson &
Hyatt 2005). Since learning is a vital issue of the socialisation of teenagers and their
consumption behaviour, knowing their learning processes is quite important for
researchers and marketers, to understand young consumers’ socialisationes.
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2.5 Socialisation Theories
Socialisation has already been described as a process that begins at birth, by which an
individual learns the expectations of society, acquires sensitivity to the pressures and
obligations of group life, as well as learn to get along with others (Brown 1976; Melanie
& Locke 2007). Brim and Wheeler (1966) named this learning, ‘socialisation’ that
refers as a process, by which a person acquires knowledge and skills, that makes him or
her more or less an able member of society. Further, Goslin (1971) noted socialisation
as a process which helps human beings to learn from the environment and change their
behaviour accordingly. Elkin and Handel (1972) pointed two issues of socialisation. On
one hand, it helps to explain how a person becomes capable of participating in society.
On the other hand, socialisation helps to explain how society teaches human beings to
learn from society and the environment through a complex process. Similarly, being a
consumer, a person learns basic knowledge, ideas and skills from the environment and
socialisation agents (Cram & Ng 1999) and processes their acquired knowledge into the
market place (John 1999).
Berns (1997) proposed a method of socialisation that follows a specific sequence: a)
affective (effect emerges from feeling-attachment), b) operant (effect emerges from
acting-reinforcement, extinction, punishment, feedback, learning by doing), c)
observational (effect emerges from imitating-modelling), d) cognitive (effect emerges
from thinking - instructions, setting standards, reasoning), e) socio-cultural (effect
emerges from conforming - group pressure, tradition, rites and rituals, symbols), f)
apprenticeship (effect emerges from guided participation - structuring, collaborating,
transferring).
However, learning is a part and parcel of the socialisation and learned behaviour is also
considered to be an outcome of the socialisaion process. Social learning theories have
been focusing on the role of socialisation agents and influences on the socialisation that
are also considered to discuss the essence of socialisation studies.
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According to Clausen (1968), socialisation may be viewed from the perspective of the
individual or collectively (be it the larger society or a constituent group having distinct
subculture). However, socialisation is a critical concept for all social sciences because
in considering socialisation, researchers are forced to examine the relationship between
the individual and their society.
2.5.1 Socialisation Theories from Multidisciplinary Perspectives
The term of ‘socialisation’ is contributed to and viewed from the perspective of various
disciplines. As is true of many concepts employed in the social sciences, the verb
‘socialise’ and its cognate ‘socialisation’ were current in the language well before they
were used as concepts by sociologists, psychologists or other behavioural scientists.
Brown (1976) mentioned that historically the systematic study of socialisation is rooted
in several fields which are addressed below:
Psychology: The area of socialisation research is always an important field in
psychology. In particular, social psychology focuses on the development of
characteristics relevant to social behaviour and on the basic process through which the
behaviour is acquired. The pathways or normal development of a human being is an
important wing of knowledge. However, psychologists have addressed somewhat
different issues while studying socialisation. While discussing socialisation issues,
psychologists are mostly inclined towards domains of social learning, psycho-analytic,
and cognitive theories.
It is not possible to state which theory is better to discuss the socialisation concept,
rather, that they complement each other. In the case of social learning theories, theorists
have attempted to extend the individual behaviour into society. According to Brown
(1976, p. 19) “social learning is learned behaviour in interpersonal situations and linked
to the needs, that require for their satisfaction, the mediation of other people”. To
understand the social learning theories, ‘stimulus-response’ and ‘trial and error’
concepts also need to be explored. Further, Psychoanalysis technique focuses on the
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emotional development of the children while researching on socialisation (Larsen, To &
Fireman 2007; Pratt, Skoe & Arnold 2004). Larson, To and Fireman (2007) mentioned
that as children grow up, how they experience with mixed emotions also affects their
socialisation. In addition, parental guidance also helps cognitive development of
adolescents as addressed by Maccoby (1992) and cognitive development occurs as a
result of educational and social changes (Brody et al. 2002).
Sociology: When the term 'socialisation' is defined from the sociologists’ point of
view; then it concentrates on the characteristics of specific groups or institutions in
which socialisation occurs (Brown 1976). Parson and Bales (1955) proposed a ‘general
system theory of society’ that integrates cultural, social, and individual levels of
analysis. Socialisation is one of the major processes in the theory which accounts for the
time dimension for the society to continue across generations which requires that older
members influence younger ones to carry on in similar ways. However, sociologists
have not been seriously concerned about the individual differences among the
organisms that make up a society nor have they been much interested in the nature of
man’s biological development. Yet, in the formative years of sociology, around the end
of the last century, social thoughts were mostly contributed by the biological concepts.
Later on, the researchers brought the issue of environment on adolescent development
and socialisation agents belonging to this environment (Roopnarine 1986). Most
importantly, various socialisation agents are directly or indirectly involved in the
development process of children (Velleman, Templeton & Copello 2005).
Contemporary sociologists are acknowledging the contribution of various socialisation
agents like: the parent-children relationship (Updegraff et al. 2002) and psychological
control (Wang, Pomerantz & Chen 2007), guidance from teachers (Avrahami 1995),
company with a peer group (Rose 2007) and the influence of the media, which became
the most important environmental factor for children socialisation (Fletcher 2006;
Strasburger & Wilson 2002).
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Anthropology: The discipline of Anthropology views socialisation from the
standpoint of the broader culture which helps to determine the overall boundaries (and
content) of socialisation and enables a comparison of the effects of different cultures
(Brown 1976). The concept of socialisation cannot be understood from an independent
context. In addition to psychological development and the involvement of various
socialisation agents, the context of cultural environment plays an important role in the
socialisation. The cultural dimension socialises people differently, and various
socialisation agents activate the socialisation into different cultures in different ways
(Mcdade & Worthman 2004). Cultural background and the country of origin
affect adolescents socialise differently on various issues (e.g., parental communication,
media exposure) (Choi & Ferle 2004), similarly religious beliefs teach various norms
and values about social behaviour (Seedat 2006). So, definitely and in different ways,
the process of socialisation is shaped and formatted in a cultural context.
Apart from the above mentioned disciplines, there are other areas (e.g., biological
discipline) that also claim their contribution in the socialisation. Nowadays, cultural,
genetic, and biological approaches are considered together, to study the socialisation
discipline. So far, it is needless to mention that socialisation is a multifaceted discipline,
where the consumer behaviourists define the socialisation discipline from the
consumers’ point of view. Consumers these days determine the business existence, and
their purchasing decision making process is quite complicated. Consumer behaviourists
translate the consumers’ role in the market place in terms of psychological growth,
cultural, and social contexts.
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2.6 Consumer Socialisation Theories
As has already been mentioned, socialisation is a multidisciplinary concept. Consumer
behaviourists have brought some relevant issues of consumer behaviour to the
discipline (Cram & Ng 1999; Granhaug & Venkatesh 1986). As a leading consumer
socialisation researcher, John (1999) addressed that the use of the socialisation approach
in consumer research only began in the 1960s, and has only recently been proposed as a
vehicle for the study of consumer behaviour (Cram & NG 1999; Ward 1974). However,
definitions of consumer socialisation appearing in literature tend to view consumer
behaviour as a ‘sub-set’ of the total socialisation taking place in a person's life. Moschis
(1981) explained the concept of consumer socialisation, as consumer behaviour that is
acquired through interaction between the person and various agents in a specific social
setting. Ward (1974, p.4), somewhat differently defined what is the widely accepted
definition of socialisation that, “consumer socialisation is a process by which young
people acquire skills, knowledge, and attitudes relevant to their functioning as a
consumer in the market place”. Overall, consumer socialisation refers specially to the
process of learning consumer related skills, knowledge, and attitudes, and also focuses
particularly on young consumers’ various patterns of cognition and behaviour (Choi &
Ferle 2004; John 1999; Moschis & Moore 1979).
At the beginning of the 1970s, the study of socialisation became widespread and started
getting the attention of the marketing community (John 1999). At the same time, the
issue of consumer socialisation became the focus of researchers (Moschis & Churchill
1978; Ward & Wackman 1974), and contributions of early researchers led to a new
generation of researchers in the field.
So far, scholars have applied the consumer socialisation perspectives, which addressed
how individuals learn to be consumers (Lueg & Finney 2007). Further, researchers
(Moschis 1985; Moschis & Moore 1979) also explored a wide range of topics,
reflecting children's growing sophistication as consumers including their knowledge of
products, brands, advertising, shopping, pricing and decision-making strategies.
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However, the field of consumer socialisation has not reached its potential due to its
reliance on stage development theories which limit both the variables and subjects of
inquiry.
So far consumer socialisation researches are typically based on two models of human
learning: a) the cognitive developmental model, and b) the social learning model (John
1999; Lueg & Finney 2007). The cognitive developmental model attempts to explain
the formation of consumer knowledge, skills, and behaviours as a function of qualitative
changes in cognitive development stages. The social learning model attempts to explain
the formation of consumer knowledge, skills, and behaviours as a function of
interactions between socialisation agents and individuals in different social settings
(Moschis & Moore 1979).
However, in the extant literature, consumer socialisation has been defined as a complex
process (Choi & Ferle 2004; Lueg & Finney 2007) that continues from early childhood
to advanced age. The outcomes of consumer socialisation are observed differently in the
various stages of young consumers (John 1999). John (1999) also addressed that these
stages are characterised along a number of dimensions that capture important shifts in
knowledge development, decision-making skills, and purchase influence strategies:
Perceptual Stages (3-7 years): The perceptual stage is characterised by a general
orientation towards the immediate and readily observable perceptual features of the
marketplace, but due to constraints in encoding the message and information, individual
experiences rarely act as rational consumers.
Analytical Stage (7-11 years): In the analytical stage, enormous changes occur in
cognitive and social knowledge. In this stage kids develop their consumption related
knowledge and skills rapidly. Further, the ability to analyse multidimensional stimuli
brings vast changes in the decision making skills of teenaged children.
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Reflective Stage (11-16 years): The reflective stage is characterised by significant
development in several dimensions of cognitive and social development. On the one
hand, in this stage, consumer decisions are made in a more adaptive manner depending
on the situation and task. On the other hand, influencing friends and family members in
purchasing decisions became quite common at this stage.
Since 1970, the issue of consumer socialisation has become an interesting area for the
consumer behaviourists and researchers. Gradually the perspectives of consumer
socialisation have been developing by conceptual models and theories. Moschis and
Churchill (1978), as well as Moschis and Moore (1978) pioneered one of the conceptual
models of consumer socialisation which is mostly adopted by other researchers for
subsequent studies (John 1999; Lueg & Finney 2007). This model specified and
transferred the issues of socialisation and proposed five variables that constitute: (a) age
or life cycle position, (b) social structure constraints affecting learning are antecedents
to the socialisation, (c) the socialisation agent, (d) the type of learning processes
involved in socialisation, and (e) the content or criterion behaviour (learning properties,
i.e. cognition, attitude and values). This model particularly demonstrates the
significance of socialisation agents and the learning processes between the learner and
the agents.
Figure 2.3 Conceptual Model of Consumer Socialisation (Source: Moschis & Churchill
1978)
Antecedent Socialisationes Outcomes
Social structural variable
Age or life cycle position
Learning properties
Agent-learner relationships • Modelling • Reinforcement • Social Interaction
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Age or life cycle: Age or life cycle position refers to a person’s life time period during
which learning occurs, and it is also used to index a person’s cognitive development of
life cycle stages.
Social Structural Variables: Social structural variables are factors such as social class
and gender, which help to locate the learner within his/her social environment, where
learning takes place.
Socialisation Agents: Brim and Wheeler (1966) mentioned that the socialisation agents
can be any person or an organisation that is involved in the socialisation, because of
frequency of contact with the individual and control over the reward and punishment
given to the individual. Family, peers, school, and media are the most basic consumer
socialisation agents of teenagers (Dotson & Hyatt 2005; Moschis & Churchill 1978).
Learning Processes: Churchill and Moschis (1979) referred to the learning process
as the way in which the learners acquire specific values and behaviours from
socialisation agents based on interaction with them. This learning process can be
classified: as a) modelling, which is also known as observational learning, and involves
imitation of agent’s behaviour, b) reinforcement that involves either reward (positive
reinforcement) or punishment (negative reinforcement) and c) social interaction, which
is less specific and involves the combination of modelling and reinforcement (Moschis
& Churchill 1978).
Content of Learning: Learning properties refer to a variety of consumer-related
cognition and behaviour that embraces the concept of consumer behaviour, such as
attitude toward the commercials and spending for brands.
Schiffman et al. (2005) also mentioned consumer socialisation has two distinct
components: On one hand, socialisation directly related to consumption, such as the
acquisition of skills, knowledge, and attitude concerned with budgeting, pricing, and
brand attitudes. On the other hand, socialisation indirectly related to consumption, such
as the underlying motivation that spurs youth to buy their desired product. Usually, the
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direct component of consumer socialisation is the area of the consumer behaviourist,
who has broader goals of understanding all aspects of consumer behaviour. On the other
hand, the indirect component of consumer socialisation specific to individual product
categories is of more interest to marketers, who want to understand why people buy
their offers.
Unfortunately, extant research on consumer buying decisions traditionally dealt with
adult consumer behaviour and comparatively minor attention was given to the young
consumers’ buying decision process (Moschis & Moore 1979). Recently, a number of
researchers (Dotson & Hyatt 2005; Moore et al. 2002) have contributed to this area.
Particularly, advertising and the affects of media have got the attention of the
researchers to understand the young consumer socialisation (Banks & Gupta 1980;
Dotson & Hyatt 2005). These days young consumers are also acquiring appropriate
consumer related skills, behaviour orientations, knowledge, and attitude to participate
effectively in the market place (Cram & Ng 1999). So, teenaged children have become a
new focus for the researchers (Chan & McNeal 2006a; Dotson & Hyatt 2005).
Marketers are also considering these consumers as a profitable segment to explore
(Dammler 2005).
2.7 Learning Theories
Being social creatures, consumers are involved with environmental learning.
Prominently, Brim and Wheeler (1966) named this learning, ‘socialisation’, by which a
person acquires knowledge and skills that make him or her more or less able member of
the society. Most of the leading socialisation research in extant literature is grounded by
learning theories (Cram & NG 1999; Moschis & Moore 1979; Moschis & Churchill
1978).
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The social learning theory is a stem from several theories including neo-skin-nerian,
neo-hullian, and learning theory (Moschis & Churchill 1978). Social learning is a part
and parcel of the socialisation, which employs the basic explanatory concepts of
learning theories: operant and classical, conditioning, negative and positive
reinforcement, punishment, extinction, suppression, generalisation, discrimination and
others (Windmiller, Lamber & Turie 1980). Most of these learning processes were
conducted experimentally either by ‘stimulus-response’ or ‘trial and error’ methods.
Bandura and Walters (1970), pioneer learning theorists, proposed that learning could
also be transferred by imitation or observation. Pope, Brennan and Voges (2007) noted
from prior researchers indicating that the content of consumer learning can be broken
down into two categories, a) directly relevant learning (directly relevant aspects of
consumer learning are those that are necessary if purchase and use are actually to take
place) and b) indirectly relevant learning (it means everything that has been learned that
motivates purchase and use behaviour).
However, Windmiller, Lamber and Turie (1980) mentioned that social learning theory
is a product of learning theory, which in turn developed out of the behaviouristic
movement in psychology. They also addressed that learning theories consist of
empirical laws that relate the properties of observable events (stimuli) to those of
subsequent observable behavioural responses. Before this stage, most of the theories of
social learning were laboratory based, and in particular, experimented on animals and
were therefore inadequate in explaining human social behaviour properly. Later on,
social learning theories were revised and ‘liberalised’ by learning theorists. Moreover,
the extant social learning theories provide the understanding about why and how a child
learns to become like other members of their society. Initially, most of the theories are
triggered by stimulus-response analysis of behaviour and a tension-reduction approach
in studying the problem of motivation, though this basic orientation has at times been
integrated with a more cognitive approach (Lueg & Finney 2007).
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Surprisingly, most of the social learning theorists neglected genetic or developmental
pre-formation or in other words, they ignored ‘inner’ factors in contrast to ‘outer’
determinants. McLaughlin (1971) one of the leading learning theorists pointed out that
the key concept of social learning theories are that behaviour learned in interpersonal
situations and is linked to the needs that require for their satisfaction the mediation of
other people. Social learning theorists (Dotson & Hyatt 2005; Lueg & Finney 2007)
therefore had recourse to a new concept; they hypothesised that a great deal of human
learning takes place through observation and imitation, though imitation is not
necessarily deliberately taught. Moschis and Churchill (1978) renowned socialisation
theorists have studied the conditions under which such imitation occurs followed by the
extent of the influence of a ‘model’ on the learner, and the extent to which it is
necessary to hypothesise intervening variables such as needs, motives, expectancies or
other cognitive processes to account for their experimental findings.
While discussing the issue of learning processes of teenagers’ mediation, instrumental
training, and modelling are considered the most common techniques to
influence teenagers’ socialisation (Lueg & Finney 2007; Moschis & Churchill 1978).
Particularly, most of the social learning theorists today tend to deal directly with the
way in which imitation contributes to the child’s socialisation. In social learning
theories imitation is discussed in terms of the relationship of the child with an actual or
symbolic model and the model’s personal qualities or role attributes. Particularly,
learning through imitation is known as vicarious learning or modelling, which is an
important way of consumers’ learning. With this form of learning, it is not necessary for
consumers to experience a reward or punishment directly in order to learn. Instead they
can observe the outcomes of others’ behaviour and adjust their own accordingly.
Krugman (1962) proposed in the passive learning theory that consumers involvement
with media and exposure to media helps in their indirect learning process. Dotson and
Hyatt (2005) also mentioned that this type of learning is transmitted through repeated
exposure of socialisation agents or certain behaviour shown by role models both in low
and high involvement situations.
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By introducing the concept of imitation, social learning theory moved to a position in
which it explicitly uses cognitive mediating processes in its explanatory repertoire
(Bandura 1986). These cognitive mediation processes indicate that perception, attention,
coding, thinking or memorising are some of the mediators interposed between stimulus
and response. The whole learning process is comprised of not only cognitive mediators,
but also by solid observation. Cognitive learning theory also added that observational
learning occurs when people watch the action of others and note the reinforcements
they receive for their behaviours - learning occurs as a result of vicarious rather than
direct experience. This type of learning is a complex process. People store these
observations in memory as they accumulate knowledge, perhaps using this information
at a later point to guide their own behaviour. The following diagrams show the
components of observational learning.
Figure 2.4 Components of Observational Learning (Source: Solomon 2004)
Overall, the concepts of learning and social learning theories have been applied to the
analysis of many aspects of human behaviour and later on to consumer behaviour. In
particular, the notion of shaping consumer behaviour has led to many practical
applications that also include the study of consumer socialisation.
Attention The consumer focuses on a model’s behaviour
Retention The consumer retains this behaviour in memory
Observational learning The consumer acquires and performs the behaviour earlier demonstrated by a model
Production processes The consumer has ability to perform the behaviour
Motivation A situation arises where in the behaviour is useful to the consumers
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2.8 Agents of Consumer Socialisation
It has already been mentioned that being a social creature, consumers’ learning takes
place in society and the environment. Similarly, consumers learn some basic
consumption related knowledge, skills and ideas from different socialisation agents that
influence their consumer socialisation (Kamaruddin & Mokhlis 2003; Shim 1996). A
socialisation agent may be a person or an organisation directly involved in socialisation
because of frequency of contact with the individual, primacy over the individual,
control over rewards, and punishment given to the individual (Churchill & Moschis
1979). Furthermore, socialisation agents inevitably transmit norms, attitudes,
motivations and behaviour to the learner and socialisation is assumed to be taking place
during the course of the person’s interaction with different agents in various social
settings.
Furthermore, Moschis (1988) stated a socialisation agent may communicate certain
information to the learner through various mechanisms: Firstly, by performing certain
acts, an agent may consciously or subconsciously communicate certain norms and
expectations. Secondly, a socialisation agent may influence the consumer behaviour of
others by using various reinforcement mechanisms, both positive and negative, in
attempting to communicate to others certain desires. Finally, socialisation agents may
affect the consumer behaviour of the learner through overt communication processes,
often referred to as the ‘social interaction’ mechanism.
Generally, most of the researchers agreed on certain socialisation agents who influence
human behaviour as consumers. Various researchers (Chavda, Haley & Dunn 2005;
Dotson & Hyatt 2005; Lueg & Finney 2007; Moschis & Moore 1979) identified family
(parents), peer groups, schools, and mass media as the four major consumer
socialisation agents. In addition, some other researchers identified religious institutions
and community as consumer socialisation agents (Berns 1997; Lloyd 1985).
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These socialisation agents play a tremendous role to develop a human being as a mature
person. Similarly consumer socialisation agents bring basic knowledge about
consumption that helps consumers to develop analytical ability and assist them to act as
a consumer in the market place (Granhaug & Venkatesh 1986; Vandell 2000). The basic
socialisation agents have been found to exert both informative as well as normative
influences on consumers (Choi & Ferle 2004). However, the role of various consumer
socialisation agents may vary in different cultural and social settings. Therefore,
significance of consumer socialisation agents has great value for the future researchers
and market practitioners.
2.8.1 Family (Parents)
In the extant literature family is considered as one of the important agents in the
socialisation (Moschis & Moore 1979; Neeley 2005). Particularly, parents as an integral
part of family are the most important role player in this process (Dotson & Hyatt 2005).
Grusec and Devidov (2007) mentioned the necessity of parents in this process is
considered for the following reasons: Firstly, children and parents are part of a biosocial
system that functions to protect offspring and to ensure that they are able to deal with
demands of social life. Secondly, the strong human need for interrelatedness plays a
substantial role in the socialisation and opportunities for such interrelatedness abound in
the parent-child relationship, as parents protect, nurture, and express affection and
warmth to their offspring. Thirdly, in most societies parents are formally assigned the
role of primary agents of socialisation. Fourthly, practical reasons facilitate parents’
motivation to socialise their children given that they must live in close proximity to
these children and that the lives of all are more comfortable when there is some
agreement about the nature of appropriate behaviour. Finally, parents are in a position
in which they can control resources available to their children as well as manage their
environments to ensure that they are either protected from or forewarned about
undesirable influences. The study of family process and children’s development was
focused mainly by the behaviourism and psycho-analytic theories (Maccoby 1992). In
the behaviourism theory, parents are considered as teachers and children are learners.
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Parents also set the behavioural agenda for their children and teach them accordingly.
Further, parents set contingent behaviour for their children to discriminate various
situations. However, parental socialisation research is typically mentioned within social
learning theories that suggest that parents may use relationships with children to fulfill
their own emotional and social needs (Carlson, Laczniak & Walsh 2001).
Socialisation, often deals with adult-initiated processes by which children acquire the
habits and values congruent with their culture (Carlson, Laczniak & Walsh 2001). They
also added that parents may influence teenaged children by nurturing parent child
relationships, conveying values, social achievement, and directly controlling children’s
behaviour within a culture that develops teenagers’ rational, socially desirable and even
effective consumption related behaviour (Moschis & Moore 1979)
Being a socialisation agent, parental communication with their teenaged children has
been suggested in various socialisation researches with significant weights, which are
generally viewed as being composed of two underlying orthogonal dimensions: a)
socio-oriented, and b) concept-oriented communication, that monitor and control the
children’s consumption related activities (Bristol & Mangleburg 2005a; Caruana &
Vassallo 2003; Moschis 1981; Neeley 2005). On one hand, socio-oriented
communication focuses maintenances of harmonious social relations and defence to
parental authority. On the other hand, concept-oriented communication stresses
acquisition of information and children’s problem solving abilities. When these two
orthogonal dimensions are combined into a typology, then four distinct patterns of
family communication emerge (Bristol & Mangleburg 2005a; Carlson, Grossbart &
Stuenkel 1992; Caruana & Vassallo 2003): a) protective family communication pattern
(high socio-oriented communication and low concept-oriented communication) that
stress obedience and conformity on the part of children with little concern for
developing children’s problem solving abilities, b) consensual family communication
pattern (high socio-oriented communication and high concept-oriented communication)
that encourage children to develop their own views, but to do so without challenging
parental authority, c) pluralistic family communication pattern (high concept-oriented
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communication and low socio-oriented communication) that encourage children to
develop their own views of the world without placing constraints on children, and
finally d) laissez-faire family communication (low patterns concept-oriented
communication and low socio-oriented communication) that reveal little parent- child
communication. The following Table 2.1 shows the pare-children communication
pattern addressed in consumer socialisation researches:
Table 2.1 Parent-Children Communication Patterns (Source: Chan & McNeal
2003)
Socio-oriented communication
Low (mean <=3.0) High (mean>3.5)
Low
(mean<=3.0)
Concept-oriented
communication
High
(mean>3.0)
Moreover, Moschis (1985) noted that for the following reasons parental communication
and styles with children are very important in the consumer socialisation: First, children
imitate and observe from their parents through conscious and subconscious
communication. Second, parents may influence the consumer behaviour of children by
various reinforcement mechanisms, both positive and negative. Finally, through social
interaction process children learn consumption related behaviour from parents. The
following diagram shows the link socialisation, communications, and offspring
outcomes.
Laissez-Faire
Little communication with children;
Little parental impact on
consumption
Protective
Stress vertical relationships;
Obedience and social harmony;
Children have limited exposure to
outside information
Pluralistic
Stress horizontal relationships; Issue-
oriented communication; Children
are encouraged to explore ideas and
express opinions
Consensual
Maintain control over children’s
consumption; Frequent
communication with children about
consumption
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Diagram 2.1 Links among Socialisation, Communications, and Offspring Outcomes
(Source: Carlson, Grossbart & Stuenkel 1992).
Parental socialisation Communication pattern Outcomes in children
Further, parental coaching helps their teenagers to acquire certain consumption related
skills: Firstly, consumer affair knowledge refers to the cognitive development of the
human being as a consumer to understand the basic practices in market. Secondly,
consumers’ response to buy any product from the market in a desirable way, and finally
materialism; which refers to the inclination towards the money for personal happiness
and social progress. Moschis (1985) one of the pioneer consumer socialisation
researchers also indicated in his research that teenaged children learn consumption
related behaviour from their parents and this learning occurs through direct and indirect
influences by their parents. Neeley (2005) also mentioned that parents influence
consumer socialisation directly by instruction and indirectly by the observation of teens.
Direct effects of family are grouped into three categories: a) the content of learning
(what young people learn from their parents without reference to specific
communication process, cognitive or overt), b) the effects of various types of family
communication processes (how the family influences consumer learning), and c) the
effects of specific structures and pattern of overt family communication process.
Indirect effects of family influences viewed by the parental exposure towards media
usage and parental views about materialism. Overall, parents influence the consumer
socialisation of their teenaged children in a couple of ways: Firstly, children observe the
parental conversation, attitudes, and pattern of expenses towards purchasing behaviour.
In this way parents act as role models for their children. Secondly, the interaction
between parents and children also transmits the consumption knowledge and that affects
both the parties (Geuens, Pelsmacker & Mast 2002). However, family structures and
patterns are changing differently in some societies. On one hand, parental separation
and family stress significantly influences teenagers’ knowledge, attitudes, and
behaviour regarding consumption behaviour. On the other hand, parental professional
business also makes their teenaged children independent and mature consumer (Geuens,
Pelsmacker & Mast 2002).
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2.8.2 Peer Group (Friends)
In the social sciences, peers have traditionally been viewed as important social force
acting on adolescents (French, Pidada & Victor 2005). Peers also have been considered
as one of the most important socialisation agents in the teenagers’ socialisation (Bush,
Smith, Martin 1999; Kamaruddin & Mokhlis 2003). According to Elkin and Handel
(1972), peer group as a socialisation agent has certain distinctive characteristics: a) it is
made up of members who have about the same age status, b) within the peer group the
members have varying degrees of prestige and power, c) the peer group is centred on its
own concern and d) in peer group, long-run socialising implications are largely
unintentional. However, Lloyd (1985) identified the following functions of peers and
friends in the socialisation:
• Replacement for family support: In absence of parents, friends provide certain
supports to their peers.
• Stabilising influence: In the midst of the many changes that take place during
adolescence, the peer group provides an anchor (as do parents).
• Social status: Group membership confers social status. Not being a member may
be associated with social stigma.
• Source of self–esteem: Group membership is a sign of peer acceptance.
Adolescents who are positively evaluated by their peers have higher self-esteem
than youth who are less positively evaluated.
• Source of behavioural standards: Peers influence on teenage children decision-
making. In homes, where parents do not get along. or where parents are
unavailable, peer groups assume more importance.
• Source of security: To some degree peer groups protect teenage children from
demands, which parents or other adults attempt to impose on them.
• Opportunities for role-taking and feedback: Participation in group activities
about life, sex, etc., provide opportunities for trying out different roles,
practicing skills important in adulthood, and getting feedback about how one’s
ideas, feelings, and behaviour appears to others.
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• Opportunity for modelling: Especially in those cases where parents cannot be
useful role models for their teenage children, peers can serve as important
models of behaviour.
Moreover, Lloyd (1985) added that peers may also be a source of challenge, conflict,
victimisation, and rejection. Various adolescents’ researchers (French, Pidada & Victor
2005) refer to the term ‘intergenerational influences’ (measured by frequency and
nature of interaction with friends) that shows peers and friends transmit, information,
beliefs, and resources to their groups and friends. As a socialisation agent, peers have
been found to exert both informative and normative influences on teenaged consumers.
Normative influence is reflected in a consumer's willingness to conform to the
expectations of others (Lachance, Beaudoin & Robitaille 2003). Whereas, informational
influences are reflected in a tendency to learn about products and brands from others or
acquire consumption-related knowledge based on the observation of the behaviour of
others (Choi & Ferle 2004).
Different research of consumer socialisation, considered friends as the most powerful
and important aspect of the peer group (French, Pidada & Victor 2005; Strong &
Eftycia 2006). The significance of friendship is measured by different dimensions such
as: a) friendship closeness, b) instrumental aid, c) enhancement of worth, and d)
exclusivity and extensivity of social contact (French, Pidada & Victor 2005). According
to French, Pidada and Victor (2005), friendship is viewed on the basis of
individualism/collectivism or interdependence/independence from the various cultural
points of view. However from the theoretical perspective, the oldest arguments about
the effects of peer relations can be found in psychoanalytic models (Bukowski,
Brendgen & Vitaro 2007). According to them, the impact of peers would be seen during
the adolescent process of individualisation, whereas adolescents restructure their
childhood relationships with their parents and strive to achieve qualitatively different
relationships with peers. More prominently, social learning theory suggested that peer
group and friends are instrumental in shaping an individual’s behaviour (Bush, Smith &
Martin 1999). Social learning perspective suggests that through modelling and
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observational learning, children acquire skills and behaviours during interactions with
family members that carry over to their peer relationships (Dotson & Hyatt 2005).
Furthermore, social comparison theory added a new dimension that teenagers need to
evaluate some of their perceived consumption related knowledge acquired from their
parents, by comparing it with the knowledge of other persons who are likely to have
similar value perspectives about consumption such as the peer group and friends
(Dotson & Hyatt 2005).
However, peers’ communication through the social interaction mechanism is less
specified as to the exact type of learning involved. It may involve a combination of
spoken (reinforcement) or unspoken (modelling) messages that peers share with each
other (Lueg & Finney 2007; Mcleod & O’ keefe 1972). Teenagers’ communication with
their peers and friends is defined as overt peer-adolescent interaction concerning goods
and services (Lueg & Finney 2007). Being consumers, peers and friends possess
consumption knowledge that influences the consumer socialisation of teenagers (Choi
& Ferle 2004). Williams and Burns (2001) mentioned that peers have found to influence
affective or expressive aspects of consumption and to be instrumental in teenagers’
consumption behaviour. Peers and friends also influence teenagers’ attitudes towards
advertised products and brand sensitivity, and response to retail shoppers’ offers
(Byoungkwan, Salmon & Hye-Jin 2007; Lachance, Beaudoin & Robitaille 2003;
Williams & Burns 2001). On the contrary, Moore and Bowman (2006) indicated that
peer groups and friends are also influencing deceptive expenditure and bad cash
management forces that are associated with materialism and antisocial behaviour.
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2.8.3 Schools
In the current literature, school is considered as a very important socialisation source for
teenaged children. School is not only important for academic purposes but also to
develop a social setting for teenaged children. Educational institutions have the role of
educating and socialising citizens so that teenaged children can be productive members
of the society. Lloyd (1985) mentioned that schools have the following general
functions in a society: a) caretaking and managing students, b) teaching required skills
and knowledge, c) transmitting cultural values, beliefs, and tradition, and d) sorting,
classifying, and evaluating students. Though objectives of educational institutions are
primarily academic in nature, pre-schools and later schools also help develop social
values of children (Wentzel & Looney 2007).
However, in many respects schools provide social experiences that are highly similar to,
and overlap with, those provided by families, the broader community, and peer groups.
Since there are no distinctive theories and socialisation models proposed in the context
of schools, social learning theory and the available models of socialisation studies are
also considered in this regard. However, research on family socialisation that also
approaches schools suggested at least three general mechanisms, whereby social
resources and experiences might influence competent functioning (Wentzel & Looney
2007). Firstly, the structure and general feature of social contexts afford opportunities
and resources that can directly support or hinder competence development. Secondly,
ongoing social interactions teach teenaged children about themselves and what they
need to do to become accepted and competent members of their social world. Within
the context of these interactions; teenaged children develop a set of values and
standards or behaviour and goals they strive to achieve. Finally, the qualities of
teenagers’ social relationships are likely to have motivational significance. When
considered with respect to educational settings, these mechanisms reflect the nested
quality of teenage children’s experience at school.
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Further, teenaged children’s social interaction and dyadic relationships with teachers
and peers in schools describe the more proximal contexts that can influence students’
social and behavioural adjustment. However, as mentioned earlier, the existing
consumer socialisation studies mainly adopted two theoretical models: a) the cognitive
developmental model, and b) the social learning model. The applications of these
models are also observed in the perspective of schools. Teenagers’ cognitive
development includes formatting consumption related knowledge, skills and behaviour
that are shared and developed in schools at different qualitative stages. On the other
hand, teenagers’ social learning processes explain the formation of consumption related
knowledge, skills, and behaviour as a function of interactions with teachers and
classmates in schools. The social learning model implies that the more interaction
between the socialising agents and the individuals, the more likely learning will take
place. As children enter into the school; get the opportunity to mix up with classmates
and start to be influenced by the environment at school (Chan 2006; Kim & Baylor
2006).
According to Bennett (1995), school is the most common place for young teens to
exchange their views, norms, and beliefs, meeting new friends, learning and attending
extra curricular activities. In particular, class mates at school not only instigate the
teenagers’ excessive demand for toys and junk food but are also responsible for some
antisocial behaviour (Lloyd 1985). However, to socialise the teenaged children about
social norms and values, school structure (e.g., level of education, school size) and
course curricula at school play a significant role (Lachance & Choquette-Bernier 2004).
Interestingly, schools are focusing in their business curricular on how to use treasure
goods, develop attitudes regarding frugal use of resources, self –sacrifice to protect
property, discouragement of regrading public, and private goods wastage. Moreover,
these days schools are teaching consumption, expenditure, and economics as text
contents and children start to believe the production of goods is hard work, resources
are scarce, and to protect the benefit of the nation, that ultimately improves teenagers’
consumer behaviour (Stampfl, Moschis & Lawton 1978). Moreover, moral education
about consumption is also getting importance in the text contents (Chan 2006).
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2.8.4 Other Socialisation Agents
2.8.4.1 Religious Institutions
Various socialisation agents such as; family, school, peers and media have got the
maximum attention of consumer socialisation researchers (Dotson & Hyatt 2005;
Kamaruddin & Mokhlis 2003). According to the ecological concept of Berns (1997)
however, religion is a part of a ‘marco system’, that also play a significant role in the
socialisation of teenagers. Lloyd (1985, p. 128) defined religion as a “unified system of
beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, uniting into a single moral community all
those that adhere to those beliefs and practices”. Every religion has certain implications
on the socialisation that influences the pattern of gender roles, marriage, divorce, sexual
behaviour, and childrearing. Most importantly, basic beliefs and attitudes towards
society are formed by religion (Lam & Shi 2008). Moreover, religion code affects one’s
dress, dietary habits, including alcohol consumption, health care, and social interaction
(Berns 1997). These days in various researches, it is also shown that religious beliefs
render the fair business practices (Lam & Shi 2008). Berns (1997) also mentioned that
religion helps people to have an identity and gives meaning to their lives. On one hand,
many religious activities reflect pride and celebration. On the other hand, a code of
religious belief also discourages excessive wastage of resources and that helps people
not to get involved with undesirable materialistic practices (Flouri 1999). Groome
(2007) also suggested that a coalition between family and school about religious
education provide better results.
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2.8.4.2 Community
The ecological points of consumer socialisation studies defined the community or
neighbourhood on a smaller scale, but as the main micro system in which children learn
by doing (Berns 1997). The term ‘community’ is derived from the Latin word for
fellowship. Berns (1997) further mentioned that community is more than a group of
people living in the same neighbourhood, city or town under some common laws; it is
also a group of people having fellowship, friendly association, mutual sharing, and
common interests. Berns (1997) also added that the need for community is
psychological, practical, and economical, which also serves the following functions: a)
production, distribution, and consumption, b) socialisation, c) social control d) social
participation, and e) mutual support which plays a significant role in the socialisation of
teenaged children. Community critically socialises human beings in terms of cultural
and social exchange relationships. Community can also have an informal social support
system of the family–relatives, friends and neighbours, who can be counted on to help
in crisis.
2.8.5 Media
As a consumer socialisation agent, the media has got the maximum attention of
researchers in current consumer socialisation research (Bartlett, Griffith & Baddian
2008; McNeal & Ji. 1999). Potter (2005, p. 16) has been defined media as the
“technological means of disseminating the message”. Katz (2006) mentioned media as a
means to convey a specific kind of information. He also added that media mainly
fulfills two basic purposes, a) entertainment and b) information that eventually
socialises consumers. In particular, advertising and editorial program content of the
mass media provides knowledge and guidance that helps consumers’ behavioural
development. Moreover, the mass media educates children about new brands and
products as well as how to use them (McNeal & Ji. 1999). These days, the media is not
only helping to develop social norms and values (Arnett 1995; Attewell, Suazo-Garcia
& Battle 2003; Orlik 2000), but also developing teenagers’ consumption related skills
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(e.g., attitudes towards shopping and brand product purchase behaviour) (Lachance,
Beaudoin & Robitaille 2003; McNeal & Ji. 1999). Furthermore, the media helps in the
socialisation through entertainment, information, identity formation, and cultural
identification (Arnett 1995). Arnett (1995) also identified a key aspect of media
socialisation that is the main difference between the media and other socialisation
agents, which is, teenagers are mostly bound to adopt other socialisation agents, but
they can choose their preferred media. However, it is important to note that teenagers’
media preferences are also affected by the economic and social structure of society
(Choi & Ferle 2004).
From theoretical perspectives; consumer socialisation by media is predominantly
explained by social learning theory. Social learning theory conceptualises the idea of
modelling that involves imitation either through a conscious attempt to emulate the
socialisation agent (e.g., media) or because the agent’s behaviour is the most salient
alternative open to a person (Lueg & Finney 2007). This type of learning process has
also been referred to as observational and imitation learning (Bandura 1977; Lueg &
Finney 2007). Further, social learning theory states that socialisation agents are
instrumental in shaping an individual’s attitude and behaviour (Cram & NG 1999).
Furthermore, the usages of displacement and cultivation theories are observed in the
process of consumer socialisation by media in the current literature of consumer
socialisation. The displacement theory states that cognitive development of teenaged
children does not depend on the amount of TV viewing, but rather on content of TV
(Anderson et al. 2001; Chernin 2005). On the contrary, cultivation theory suggests that
frequent TV viewing increases the likelihood of the adoption of expressed values and
beliefs that ultimately alter viewers’ behaviour (Brown 1993; Brown & Steele 1995).
Cultivation theory mainly suggests that teenagers’ learning from TV is strongly
associated with the volume of watching and involvement with TV (Gruber & Thau
2003).
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Recently, electronic media has got maximum attention from researchers, rather than
other media (Bellafante 1995; Bloxham & Prieb 2007), and is becoming the most
important agent into teenagers’ socialisation (Kamaruddin & Mokhlis 2003; Moschis &
Moore 1979). Electronic media are the media that utilize electronics or
electromechanical energy to enable the end user (audience) to access the content. TV in
particular has got maximum attention from various consumer socialisation researchers
(Banks & Gupta 1980; Dotson & Hyatt 2005). In the extant literature, TV has been
addressed not only for children’s’ development, but also for developing their
consumption related behaviour (Chan 2006, Russell, Norman & Heckler 2004).
Though the use of TV is varied on the basis of requirements, the basic function of the
TV is to socialise people as social beings, as well as to cognitively develop consumers
(Banks & Gupta 1980; Churchill Jr & Moschis 1979; Moschis & Moore 1982). On the
one hand, the massive use of TV has brought fabulous informational opportunities for
consumers (Anderson et al. 2001). On the other hand, TV is also accused for expediting
excessive expenditure and an unhealthy lifestyle (Chan, Zhang & Wang 2006; Reading
2008; Yavas & Riecken 1990). Teenagers’ attitudes towards the consumption behaviour
are also affected by TV (Russell, Norman & Heckler 2004). Furthermore, consumption
related values that include materialism and desire towards product consumption are also
influenced by TV (Fletcher 2006; Gruber & Thau 2003).
The impact of TV on consumer socialisation is generally viewed from different
perspectives. Many studies have reported several negative consequences of TV viewing;
including increases in obesity, attention deficit problems, aggression, and decreases in
several measures of academic achievement (Alarcon 2004; Anderson et al. 2001). In
contrast, other studies have shown that some types of TV programming are associated
with teenagers’ developmental outcomes (Keith 1986; Sotirovic 2005). Most
importantly the outcome of TV depends on the content and program vehicle (program).
However, parental control, peers' influences, gender and social class differences,
also have an important role in the consumer socialisation through TV (Belk 1991;
Fujioka & Austin 2002; Keith 1986; López-Sintas & García-Álvarez 2006).
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2.9 Media Type
The term media covers a wide range of variety and a broad line that includes television
(TV), newspapers, magazines, and radio (Katz 2006). So far, electronic and printed
media are considered as mainstream media by various researchers (Mcquil 1987; Potter
2005). Further, internet, mobile phone and community radio are considered as
alternative media (Senevirante 2007). Today's electronic and printed media, including
billboards, coupons, and advertisements are also utilised in the form of specialised
media (Katz 2006).
Table 2.2 Classification of Media (Source: Rahman 2006)
Print Media Electronic Media
Magazines-consumer, Farm, Business Television, broadcast, cable, syndication
spot
News papers-National, Local Radio-Network , Local
Outdoor bill board Internet
Direct mail
Yellow page
Mcphee (2004) addressed that the past 10-15 years have seen enormous shifts in the
way people interact with mass media, especially with visual media. On the one hand,
magazines and newspapers have always been under their readers’ control, and readers
choose what to read. On the other hand, TV is more passive, and TV networks decide
what programs to air, and when. Recently, due to technological advances (e.g., DVR,
Satellite channel), it is viewers who have become the program schedulers to see what
and when to watch (Katz 2006). So, either way, media would be differentiated as
controlled (e.g., Magazine, News papers) and non-controlled (TV, Radio) (Katz 2006).
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Further, Mcphee (2004) differentiates media as hot media and cool media: a) A hot
media is one in which a single sense is extended in high definition, (e.g., with a lot of
data). According to the above definition; photographs, printed text, and radio are
characterised by high definition. Hot media, by providing information in detail, are low
in participation, since the audience does not have to ‘fill in’ missing information. b) A
cool media is one where little information is provided to a particular sense (e.g., speech,
telephone, cartoons, television, and computer). They are characterised by low definition
since the audience has to fill in a lot of information like in a conversation or telephone
call, when interpreting a cartoon or when piecing together a picture from the pixels on a
television or computer screen. However, each of the major media type has got
distinctive features shown on Table 2.3:
Table 2.3 Features of Various Media (Source: Kotler et al. 2007)
Medium Advantages Limitations
Newspapers Flexibility, timeliness, good
local market coverage, broad
acceptance, high believability
Short life, poor reproduction
quality, small ‘pass-along’
audience
Television (TV) Combines sight, sound and
motion, appealing to the senses,
high attention, and high reach.
High absolute cost, high clutter,
fleeting exposure, less audience
selectivity.
Radio Mass use, high geographic and
demographic selectivity, low
cost.
Audience presentations only,
lower attention than television,
non-standardised rate structure,
fleeting exposure.
Magazines High geographic and
demographic selectivity,
credibility and prestige, high
quality reproduction, long life,
good ‘pass-long’ readership.
Long ad purchase lead times
some waste circulation, no
guarantee of position.
Online High selectivity, immediacy,
interactive capabilities, easy to
measure number of exposures.
Demographically skewed
audience, audience controls
exposure, less effective at
conveying emotional message.
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2.9.1 Television
In the current research of consumer socialisation, TV has got the maximum attention of
researchers among other media types. Moreover, TV has been identified as the most
important consumer socialisation agent compared to other media in the consumer
socialisation (Bearison, Bain & Daniele 1982; Cogdon 2007; Dotson & Hyatt 2005).
TV has been considered as the most exciting electronic media since 1950, but initially,
the affects of TV used to be viewed negatively on child development (Abelman 2004).
Recently, TV has been portrayed as an educational tool for pro-social learning (Burke
2005; Troseth, Saylor & Archer 2006). Being an educator, TV certainly affects the
consumer socialisation of teenagers and helps them to act as consumers in the market
(Tufte 2003). The role of TV as a consumer socialisation agent has been widely
researched in the consumer socialisation (Yavas & Riecken 1990; Sullivan et al. 2007).
In particular, outcome variables of the consumer socialisation (e.g., consumption related
cognition, attitude, values) are addressed by the researchers, which are the result of
involvement with TV. So far, consumer socialisation researchers have addressed that
involvement with TV which develops teenagers’ consumption related cognition
(Bartlett, Griffiths & Bardin 2008; Ward & Wackman 1974), influences consumption
related attitudes (Hastings & Aitken 1995) and transmits consumption related values
(Chan 2003; Kamineni 2005).
Overall, as one of the major media types, TV has a significant affect on teenagers’
consumer socialisation in both developed and developing countries (Bhosale & Gupta
2006; Chan 2003). Although, the role of TV in consumer socialisation has not been
addressed adequately in the context of developing countries.
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2.9.2 Media Vehicle
Media vehicles are specific media within each general media type such as specific
magazines, TV shows or radio programs (Kotler et al. 2007). For example, TV vehicles
include programs such as Big Brother, American Idol, and Amazing Race. Whatever
the medium is, the media vehicle is always telecasted or published to focus on a
particular market segment (audience) (Bushman 2005; Churchill Jr & Moschis 1979).
Katz (2006) mentioned that media vehicles socialise consumers, either by providing
information or entertainment, which are the most common features for any media
vehicle. In particular, a TV vehicle contains a variety of programs like Sesame Street
(informational), American Idol (interactive and entertainment), and Big Brother (reality
show), that are highly popular in the teenaged market (Anderson et al. 2001; Stanley
2003).
TV plays a significant role in teenagers’ social, emotional, and physical development
(Sotirovic 2005) and the TV vehicle particularly socialises teenaged children through
verbal messages and visual cues (Englis, Solomon & Olofsson 1993). Informational TV
vehicles (e.g., Sesame street) help teenaged children to develop social norms, values,
and academic achievement (Anderson et al. 2001). On the one hand, TV vehicles help
teenaged children’s’ cognitive development through information processing skills,
analytical abilities, and creativity (Abelman 2004). On the other hand, street shows like,
‘Intervention’ instigate teenagers’ antisocial behaviour. In particular, some TV vehicles
like ‘America Idol’, ‘Big Brother’ are attracting the attention of teenagers these days,
that also increase and influence teenagers consumption related behaviour (Arnett 1995;
Burke 2005). Currently, interactive shows like 'American Idol' and 'Celebrities Talk
Show' in TV are new sensations that connect the audience directly and provoke
teenagers’ consumption behaviour (Englis, Solomon & Olofsson 1993; Levy &
Nebenzahl 2006). Moreover, musical programs, life style shows and particularly reality
shows are the key sources of teenagers’ consumption imagery (Englis, Solomon &
Olofsson 1993).
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2.9.3 TV Vehicle - Reality TV (RTV)
Reality TV (RTV) is a generation of TV programming which presents purportedly
unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and features
ordinary people instead of professional actors. The concept of reality TV (RTV) is quite
contemporary in the electronic media. In the 1992 MTV, the USA experimentally
broadcasted RTV first, and at that time, was known as a documentary program. In fact,
the growth of RTV is in its early stages (Deziel 2004). Therefore, not much academic
work has been found in literature (Yoon & Garma 2006). In this research, mostly text
books, news paper articles, interviews of media experts, and the information from the
media websites were considered to discuss the concept and impact of RTV. The
following Table 2.4 shows the classification of RTV.
Table 2.4 Classification of reality TV (RTV) (Source: reality tv.com 2008)
A) Documentary-Style 1) Special living environment: Some
documentary-style programs place cast members,
who in most cases previously did not know each
other and stay in an artificial living environment
for competition.
2) Celebrities: Another subset of fly-on-the-
wall-style shows involves celebrities. Often these
show a celebrity going about their everyday life:
examples include The Anna Nicole Show, The
Osborne’s.
3) Professional activities: Some documentary-
style shows portray professionals either going
about day-to-day business or performing an entire
project over the course of a series. No outside
experts are brought in (at least, none appear on
screen) to either provide help or to judge results
(e.g., Miami Ink, American Chopper).
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B) Elimination/Game Shows 1) Dating based competition: Dating-based
competition shows follow a contestant choosing
one out of a group of suitors (e.g., Rock of Love)
2) Job Search: In this category, the competition
revolves around a skill that contestants were pre-
screened for. Competitors perform a variety of
tasks based around that skill, are judged, and are
then kept or removed by a single expert or a panel
of experts (e.g., Apprenticeship)
3) Fear Centric: fear-centric shows place people
in situations or locations aimed at generating
emotions of fright, panic, or revulsion (e.g., Fear
Factor).
4) Sports: These programs create a sporting
competition among athletes attempting to
establish their name in that sport (e.g., The
Ultimate Fighter).
5) Talent Hunt show: Another type of reality
TV is "reality-competition", or so-called "reality
game shows", in which participants are filmed
competing to win a prize, often while living
together in a confined environment. In many
cases, participants are removed until only one
person or team remains, who/which is then
declared the winner. Voting is done by the
viewing audience, the show's own participants, a
panel of judges, or some combination of the three
(e.g., American Idol, Big Brothers).
C) Others Self-improvement/makeover, Renovation, Dating
shows, Talk shows.
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So far, teenagers are the fastest growing viewers and are considered to be the prime
audience of RTV (Tedesco 2007). Mellor (2003) also addressed that since 2000, RTV is
the top preference of teenagers.
RTV is also considered to be a source of joy, entertainment, and happiness in teenagers’
daily life (Mellor 2003). On the contrary, some critics are observing that the craze of
RTV is not like it was in its early stages (Tedesco 2007) and teenagers are not as keen
on RTV programs anymore. However, TV channels are still bombarded by the various
RTV programs. In particular, musical talent hunt programs and interactive realty games
shows are the most popular among teenagers (e.g., American Idol, Close Up
Bangladesh, Who Wants to be a Millionaire) (Berman 2008; Tedesco 2007). Initially,
mostly celebrities were the participants of RTV, but recently the trend has changed and
ordinary people are the prime focus of RTV (Hibberd 2005). In fact the reality is,
teenagers are still big followers of RTV celebrities and have emotional attachment to
them (Dolliver 2006; Idato 2007).
However, the affect of RTV has received a mixture of appreciation and criticism. At the
participants’ end, RTV has the potential to turn its participants into national celebrities
at least for a short period. This is the most notable in talent-search programs such as the
'Idol' series, which has spawned music stars in many of the countries in which it has
aired, as viewer teenagers are taught some knowledge, skills, and values by the RTV
that affects their life-style, including consumption behaviour (Dolliver 2006;
Middendorp 2008). RTV is also maturing the teenagers as consumers regarding their
tastes, preferences, and brand item selection (Mellor 2003). It has also been observed
(Berman 2008; Keenan 2008; Scardino 2005) that teenagers are quite keen on new hair
styles, dress design, outfits, cosmetics and the body image of RTV celebrities. RTV also
influences the sense of accomplishment and freedom of teenagers as consumers, while
they take their purchase decisions (Adams, Sutherland & Johnson 2007; Schwartz,
Newsome & Mathieson 2007). To some extent, some popular RTV (e.g., Biggest
Looser) helps teenagers to understand real life problems and help them to find out the
possible solutions (Dale 2007). Moreover, RTV develops creativity and rationality of
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teenagers as consumers (Johnson, Cohen & Brook 2007). Further, it is not unlikely that
some teenaged participants express their desire to become celebrities of RTV and want
to make it their career (Armstrong 2006; Mellor 2003). Interestingly, some parents
believe RTV is a good educator to guide their children and they really appreciate
information based RTV (Pursell & Hibberd 2007; Robinson 2005). Also, some RTV
celebrities like Opera Winfrew is influential even in the national level (Lowry 2008).
On the contrary, critics blame RTV for bringing unwanted situations into consumers’
lives (Yoon & Garma 2006). Critics are also indicating that RTV is badly affecting
teenagers’ social and consumption behaviour. Unfortunately, much of the RTV shows
excessive sexual content negatively, which affects teenagers’ outfits, hair styles, and
cosmetics purchase decisions (Idato 2007). Moreover, RTV involvement really hampers
participants' academic careers (Middendorp 2008; Wilder 2008). Unfortunately, RTV is
also accused of showing violence, conflict, and sexual tension that also triggers
teenagers’ aggressive and anti-social behaviour (Dubecki, Goodings & Mathieson
2008). Even the life style of RTV celebrities instigates the alcohol and drug
consumption of teenagers (Mcwhirter 2007). However, the gimmick of RTV is still on
and a lot of newspapers, websites, and channels are covering this unscripted new trend
of TV genres (Frutkin 2008).
It has already been mentioned that RTV is a new generation of TV programming.
Recently, RTV has got attention of viewers because of its special features like program
layout (Frutkin 2008), reward options for audience and participants (Bown 2008),
format (James 2007), various content (Lundy & Jacobson 2008) and nature of
participation (Jacobs 2008). These key features make RTV different than other general
TV programs. Unlike traditional TV programs, in RTV not only celebrities but also
ordinary people, often teenagers’, are participants. Also, unlike traditional TV
programs, mostly two-way communication is observed between RTV and its audience
(James 2007). This interactive nature of RTV, as opposed to traditional non-interactive
types, ensures greater involvement of audience who are often teenagers. Widespread
use of reward systems in RTV, coupled with its content which are often varied and
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close to participants day-to-day life, i.e., ‘reality competition’, ‘reality game shows’,
ensure greater audience involvement with RTV. Unscripted nature of RTV, as opposed
to traditional scripted ones, also makes it more dramatic and realistic to its audience.
The fact that RTV is often live also makes it more realistic and ensures greater audience
involvement than traditional TV. As viewers and participants, teenagers gain
consumption related knowledge, skills, and values through different content and their
interaction with RTV (Dolliver 2006; Middendorp 2008). RTV also influence teenagers
as consumers regarding their tastes, preferences, and brand item selection (Mellor
2003). Past researches show (Berman 2008; Keenan 2008; Scardino 2005), teenagers
are quite keen on new hair styles, dress design, outfits, cosmetics and the body image of
RTV celebrities, as viewers can join in the live shows. RTV also influence teenagers’
sense of accomplishment (Adams, Sutherland & Johnson 2007; Schwartz, Newsome &
Mathieson 2007). This happens due to widespread use of ‘contests’ and ‘rewards’ for
participants in RTV. Participation and wining rewards in these contests often provide
the sense of accomplishment to the teenagers’. To some extent, some popular RTV
(e.g., Biggest Looser) helps teenagers to understand real life problems close to their
hearts and help them to find out the possible solutions (Dale 2007). Overall, RTV has
more options than ordinary TV programs to influence teenagers’ involvement in it and
thereby influence their consumer socialisation. Generally, the set of identifiable
components associated with RTV that are based on current literature are given bellow:
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Table 2.5 Domain of RTV Observables and Their Dimensions (Developed for this
Research)
Domain of RTV Observables Dimensions
A) Participants
Not only celebrities but also ordinary people are
participants of RTV. Sometimes mature people are
also observed in the RTV shows along with
teenagers (Jacobs 2008; Schrobsdorff 2008)
1) Celebrities & Ordinary people
B) Content
Content of RTV is quite varied and has got a
mixture of responses from the media critics
(Lundy & Jacobson 2008)
1) Suspense
2) Violence
3) Sexually appealing
4) Talent hunt program
5) Information
C) Format
Mostly two way communication
is observed between RTV and it’s audience while
others are of a one way type (James 2007)
1) Interactive
2) Non-interactive
D) Reward System
Teenagers have keen interest in the reward given
in the RTV. It might be a monetary or non-
monetary reward (Bown 2008; Driscoll 2007)
1) Gift item
2) Prize money
E) Program layout
Mostly anchor and participants play major role in
RTV which is not directed through script (Frutkin
2008).
1) Non scripted
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2.10 Conclusion
In the above sections of this chapter, literatures of parent and immediate disciplines
linked to consumer socialisation have been addressed. Furthermore, theoretical grounds
of consumer socialisation research were discussed, followed by the role of various
consumer socialisation agents, which are mainly discussed in the extant literature from
the perspective of developed countries. So far, media as one of the consumer
socialisation agents has got the maximum attention of researchers in the current
consumer socialisation research. Particularly, the role of TV as a consumer socialisation
agent has been widely researched. Overall, TV commercials (TVC) and the different
content of TV programs are mostly considered while conducting consumer socialisation
research, which has been rarely examined from the perspective of developing countries
(Bhosale & Gupta 2006; Choi & Ferle 2004). Recently, RTV has become hugely
popular among teenagers and they have involvement with different RTV shows.
However, as a new generation of TV vehicle, RTV has never been focused on as a
consumer socialisation agent in the current literature of consumer socialisation (Yoon &
Garma 2006). Furthermore, RTV as a consumer socialisation agent has so far been
overlooked in consumer socialisation research, not only in developing countries, but
also in developed countries (Deziel 2004). Moreover, Yoon and Garma (2006)
addressed that there is no empirically tested model of consumer socialisation by RTV in
current literature. The following chapter will primarily address how TV, particularly
RTV, does affect consumer socialisation of teenagers in the context of a developing
country.
It has been addressed that teenagers’ involvement with RTV is largely observed in
developed countries (Berman 2008). There is also anecdotal evidence that suggests that
teenagers in developed countries are big followers of different life-style based shows;
celebrities’ talk shows and talent hunt shows that affect their consumption related
behaviour (Cajueiro 2008; Lowry 2008). Teenagers in developed countries have higher
accessibility and various options of using different media than their developing
countries counterparts. So, they show a relatively higher involvement with RTV
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through different sources of media because of it’s interesting content (e.g.,
documentaries, game shows, celebrity talk shows, lifestyle shows, talent hunt shows)
(Lundy & Jacobson 2008). On the other hand, teenagers in developing countries are
getting involved with electronic media, particularly TV (Bhosale & Gupta 2006; Nath
2006). More recently, teenagers in developing countries are showing their involvement
with RTV (Rahman 2008). So, RTV as one of the consumer socialisation agents can be
considered in consumer socialisation research.
In this chapter, the parent and immediate disciplines have been discussed and their
relevance to this research has been analysed. Furthermore, the role of the media has
been discussed specifically to help understand the consumer socialisation of teenagers
by TV. Particularly, as one of the latest TV vehicles, the role of RTV has been
focused on conceptualising the issues of consumer socialisation. In the next chapter, the
current literature relevant to the key constructs of this research will be discussed,
analysed and a proposed conceptual model developed.
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Chapter 3 Conceptual Framework and Hypotheses
3.1 Introduction
In the previous chapter, the parent and immediate disciplines of consumer
socialisation have been discussed and analysed. The key focus of this chapter will be to
develop a conceptual model of consumer socialisation by RTV and how as a consumer
socialisation agent, RTV affects the consumer socialisation of teenagers in the context
of a developing country. Furthermore, the role of social structural variables will be
addressed to understand their role in the consumer socialisation.
3.2 Involvement with Media
The focus of this research is to assess the impact of teenagers’ involvement with RTV
on their consumer socialisation. Zaichkowsky (1985) defined involvement as “A
person’s perceived relevance to the object based on inherent needs, values, and
interest”. So, teenagers may get involved in watching, thinking and participating in
RTV for getting fun, pleasure and in the process develop consumption related
knowledge and skills.
Zaichkowsky (1985) defined involvement as, “a person’s perceived relevance to the
object based on inherent needs, values, and interest.” This definition can be applied to
RTV studies. Literature also indicates that a person can be involved with advertisements
(Krugman 1966) and RTV (Yoon & Garma 2006). In media research, involvement
pertains to media users’ relationships with the message conveyed by media or with
media (Levy & Windahl 1984), media personalities (Rubin & Perse 1987), or other
media users (Rubin & Step 1997). Rubin and Perse (1987) conceptualised media
involvement as “cognitive, affective, and behavioural perceptions during and because of
exposure” (p. 247). To understand involvement, one needs to understand the audience
and the role of involvement between media motive and media effects (Perse 1998).
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Involvement and Audience activity: Lin (1993) explained that audience activity is a
construct describing audience’s involvement when using the media. Activity is mostly
manifested in people’s media motives, selectivity, and involvement with the message
provided by media (Blumer 1979). Levy and Windhal (1984) focused on three types of
activity: a) selective before exposure, b) involvement during exposure, c) and use after
exposure. Diagram 3.1 shows the links between ‘Media Motives, Involvement and
Media Use and Effects.
Diagram 3.1 Links between Media Motives, Involvement and Media Use and Effects
(Perse 1990a, 1990b)
Media motives Involvement Media use and effects.
Media involvement as a mediator: Several researchers have investigated relationships
between media motives, involvement, and effects. Perse (1990a) found instrumental
viewing motivation positively related to elaboration, whereas ritualistic viewing
motivation positively related to engaging in distracting behaviour. Perse (1998) also
found instrumental motivation predicted cognitive and affective involvement (e.g.,
positive reactions) with television viewing. In line with this thinking and research, the
relationship between media motives, cognitive and affective involvement, and media
use and outcomes can be linked and illustrated as follows (Perse 1990a, 1990b).
Diagram 3.2 shows the links between Media Motives, Cognitive and Affective
Involvement, Media Use and Outcomes.
Diagram 3.2 Links between Media Motives, Cognitive and Affective Involvement,
Media Use/Effects (Source: Perse 1990a, 1990b)
Media motives Cognitive and affective involvement Media use/ effects.
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3.2.1 Involvement with Reality TV (RTV)
The idea of RTV originated from documentary TV programs and the growth of RTV is
still in its early stage (Biressi 2005; Deziel 2004; Hill 2005). However, RTV has got the
serious attention of teenagers because of it’s interesting content (e.g., documentary,
game show, celebrity talk show, lifestyle show, talent hunt show) (Lundy & Jacobson
2008). Furthermore, the nature of participants (e.g, ordinary people, celebrities) (Jacobs
2008), format (e.g., interactive, non interactive) (James 2007), and reward system (e.g.,
prize money, gift items) (Driscoll 2007), makes RTV different and exclusive from other
TV programs.
However, on theoretical grounds, cultivation theory suggests that frequent viewing with
TV increases the likelihood of the adoption of expressed values and beliefs that will
ultimately alter teenagers’ actual behaviour (Gruber & Thau 2003). Moreover, higher
consumption of TV viewing brings greater changes in values, beliefs, and resulting
behaviour. In fact, cultivation theory starts with the idea that people who watch TV for
many hours a day think differently about the social reality than people who rarely or
never watch TV (Nacos 2000). Cultivation theorists suggest that TV programming
cultivates a mainstream world view that reflects and perpetuates the social view
(Hetsroni & Tukachinsky 2006; Nacos 2000).
So far, researches on consumer socialisation in the context of RTV have been rarely
examined (Yoon & Garma 2006). Therefore, scale items in this research have been
adopted mostly from current research findings on consumer socialisation by media in
general Table 3.2.
As mentioned earlier, cognition, attitudes, and value formation towards consumption
are the three key constructs of the consumer socialisation of teenagers. In the following
sections, these three constructs have been discussed in relation to the involvement with
RTV.
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3.3 Key Constructs of Consumer Socialisation
In the extant literature it has been generally agreed that consumption related cognition,
attitude, and values are the common outcome components of the consumer socialisation
(Chan 2003; Moschis & Moore 1979; Schmoll et al. 2006). Generally, the consumer
socialisation is mostly examined from the perspectives of vicarious learning, cultivation
and displacement theories.
From theoretical perspectives, consumer socialisation by the media, particularly TV, is
predominantly explained by social learning theory. Social learning theory
conceptualises the idea of modelling that involves imitation, either through a conscious
attempt to emulate the socialisation agent (e.g., media), or because the agent’s
behaviour is the most salient alternative open to a person (Lueg & Finney 2007).
According to social learning theory socialisation agents are instrumental in shaping an
individual’s attitude and behaviour (Cram & NG 1999; Moschis & Churchill 1978).
Furthermore, usages of displacement and cultivation theories are observed in the
process of consumer socialisation by the media in the current literature of consumer
socialisation. According to displacement theory teenagers’ exposure to TV content
expedites their cognitive development (Anderson et al. 2001; Chernin 2005). On the
contrary, cultivation theory suggests that the consumer socialisation takes place due to
involvement with the media (Brown 1993; Brown & Steele 1995). Cultivation theory
mainly suggests that teenagers’ learning from TV is strongly associated with the volume
of watching and involvement with TV (Gruber & Thau 2003).
Overall, extant literature and consumer socialisation research identifies three elements
of the consumer socialisation, like socialisation agents (e.g., family, media), social
structural variables (e.g., social class, gender) and outcomes (e.g., cognition, attitude,
values) (Shim 1996; Moschis & Churchill 1978). According to these theoretical and
conceptual findings, RTV is considered to be a socialisation agent and other social
structural variables such as social class differences, gender differences, parental control
and peer group influences are instrumental in shaping an individual’s consumption
related cognition, attitude and values outcomes (John 1999; Kamaruddin & Mokhlis
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2003; Lueg & Finney 2007).
So, in this research, cognition (through knowledge and skills), attitudes formation, and
values formation towards the consumption have been identified as 3 key outcome
constructs of the consumer socialisation of teenagers. In the following section, these 3
outcome constructs have been discussed in relation to their involvement with RTV.
Figure 3.1 Outcomes of Consumer Socialisation
3.3.1 Cognition
Cognition is defined as “knowledge that is acquired by a combination of direct
experience and information from various sources” (Schiffman et al. 2005, p. 617).
Wagner (2008) has defined cognition as the mental processes involved in gaining
knowledge and comprehension, including thinking, knowing, remembering, judging,
and problem solving. So, consumption related cognition can be conceptualised as the
mental processes involved in gaining knowledge and comprehension; including
thinking, knowing, remembering, judging, problem solving and skill development
regarding products and brands consumption (Bartlett, Griffiths & Badian 2008; Bush,
Martin & Bush 2004; Moschis & Moore 1978). Famous psychologist Piaget believed
that cognitive development occurs in the different stages of children exclusively as
observed in different researches (John 1999; Solomon 2004) like, a) limited: bellow the
age of 6, children do not employ storage and retrieval strategies. b) cued: children
between the ages of 6 and 12 employ this strategies, but only when prompted and c)
strategies: children 12 and older spontaneously employ storage and retrieval strategies.
However, other psychologists did not agree with this cognitive development stage
exclusively, rather they think cognitive development takes place throughout the life
cycle.
Outcomes of consumer socialisation
Consumption related cognition
Consumption related attitude
Consumption related values
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3.3.1.1 Consumption Related Cognition Development by Television (RTV
Involvement)
The cognitive development of teenaged children is significantly affected by electronic
media, particularly Television (TV) (Anderson et al. 2001; Bearison, Bain & Daniele
1982). These days, teenagers are highly involved with the different content of TV and
various TV vehicles (Acevedo-Polakovich et al. 2005; Choi & Ferle 2004). The extant
literature has indicated that TV plays a vital role in teenagers’ cognitive development
(Abelman 2004). Moreover, teenagers’ cognitive development through TV has been
explored from a social perceptive as well as from the context of consumer socialisation
(Bearison, Bain & Daniele 1982; Dotson & Hyatt 2005).
Theoretically, cognitive development as an outcome of teenagers’ socialisation by the
media is mainly explained from the perspectives of displacement theory, cultivation
theory and observational learning theory. According to displacement theory the
cognitive development of teenaged children does not depend on the amount of TV
viewing but rather on the content of TV (Anderson et al. 2001). From the findings of
different research on displacement theory, Chernin (2005) noted that as children spend
more time watching TV, they spend less time participating in more ‘valuable’ activities.
On the contrary, cultivation theory suggests that frequent TV viewing increases the
likelihood of the development of consumption related cognition that ultimately alters
viewers’ behaviour (Brown 1993; Brown & Steele 1995). Cultivation theory mainly
suggests that teenagers’ learning from TV is strongly associated with the volume of
their watching and involvement with TV (Gruber & Thau 2003). Furthermore, cognitive
development of the consumer through the media also has been discussed by social
learning theory, particularly by observational learning theory (Gruber & Thau 2003).
Observational learning theory posits that people learn from observing others’ behaviour
and practice accordingly if rewarded and reinforced (Bandura 1977; Ward &
Rivadeneyra 1999). In particular, teenaged children through observation or by imitating
their favourite characters from TV develop their consumption related knowledge, ideas
and skills that influence their consumption related behaviour (Lueg & Finney 2007;
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Moschis & Churchill 1978).
The influences of TV on the cognitive development of teenaged children are viewed by
researchers as very significant (Bearison, Bain & Daniele 1982; Brand & Greenberg
1994). Abelman (2004) noted that young and talented children watch significantly more
TV per week and are engaged in more active and selective tele-viewing. Furthermore,
their information processing capacity, creativity, and narrative skills are viewed as a
result of involvement with TV (Zimmerman & Christakis 2005). Research findings
indicate that not only is the time given to TV, but also the TV content is significant for
the cognitive development of teenaged children (Abelman 2004; Zimmerman &
Christakis 2005).
TV as a consumer socialisation agent consolidates consumption related knowledge,
skills, capacity and consumer role perception in to the consumer socialisation. In
particular, teenagers’ information seeking experiences about various products and
services are triggered by the TV (Eastin 2005). Furthermore, TV provides information
about the market condition which creates teenagers’ awareness and helps their recalling
capacity of various products and brands (Bartlett, Griffiths & Badian 2008; Ward &
Wackman 1974). TV not only develops product and brand recalling capacity of
teenagers but also develops product and brand recognition ability (Zuckerman, Ziegler
& Stevenson 1978). It is also likely that teenagers get product usage instruction from
TV (Moschis & Moore 1978). Furthermore, Moschis and Moore (1978) added that TV
provides a clue to understand the cost benefit analysis of using any product and brand
that sometimes help teenagers’ consumption decisions.
In this research, involvement with RTV is considered as an antecedent variable of
teenagers’ consumption related cognition development. As one of the most
contemporary forms of TV vehicles, RTV brought a lot of exclusive features with it
(e.g., nature of participants, content, format, rewards, program layout) (Bown 2008;
Frutkin 2008; Lundy & Jacobson 2008; Jacobs 2008; James 2007). Therefore, the more
teenagers’ involvement in it, it is expected the more it will lead to their consumption
related cognitive development. In particular, from the perspective of cultivation theory,
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teenagers’ involvement (e.g., time spent, attention, likings) with RTV may develop their
consumption related cognition, as RTV shows provide product related knowledge and
help to recall and understand product usage instructions (Ward & Wackman 1974;
Zuckerman, Ziegler & Stevenson 1978). The same can be said of TV shows in general.
Furthermore, from the perspective of displacement theory, various content of RTV (e.g.,
informational, entertainment) may also influence teenagers’ brand related knowledge,
consumption related skills and activities. Discussion in this section on cognition
theories and specifically cognitive development occurs as a result of vicarious rather
than direct experience, and through a process of imitating the behaviour of others called
modelling. Therefore, imitating the role models from RTV and observing different
contents, as well as getting involved in RTV are assumed to be the solid ground of
teenagers’ cognitive development that may reflect their consumption related behaviour.
Furthermore, teenagers’ interest towards electronic media, particularly TV, is observed
in developing countries (Bhosale & Gupta 2006; Nath 2006). As mentioned earlier,
previous research, though mostly developed country based, shows that TV directly
affects teenagers’ consumption related cognition (Bartlett, Griffiths & Bardin 2008;
Ward & Wackman 1974). Similarly, development of consumption related cognition by
TV is also expected among teenagers of developing countries. Furthermore, there is
teenagers’ involvement in TV in developing countries (Chan 2003; Nath 2006).
Accordingly, for this research we can hypothesise that:
H1: There is a positive impact of RTV involvement on consumption related
cognition.
Since the research on consumer socialisation within the context of RTV is rarely
examined, the domain of scale items to measure consumption related cognition has been
mostly adopted from current research findings on consumer socialisation research by
the media.
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3.3.2 Attitude
In psychology, attitude is defined as a “psychological tendency that is expressed by
evaluating a particular entity with some degree of favour or disfavour” (Eagly &
Chaiken 2007, p.1). Solomon (2004) referred to attitude as the lasting general
evaluation of people (including one self), objects or issues. Eagly and Chaiken (2007,
p.5) also added as attitude, “an evaluative judgement or affective or evaluative
response”. Current definitions of attitude possess some key features like evaluation,
attitude to object, and tendency (Eagly & Chaiken 2007). Attitude towards the act of
buying is the perceived consequences of purchase which is heavily discussed in
consumer behaviour discipline (Solomon 2004). Overall, consumption related attitude
can be conceptualised as an enduring combination of motivational, emotional,
perceptual and cognitive process with respect to imitation, fashion, inspiration and
product placement (Hirschman & Thompson 1997; Russell, Norman & Heckler 2004;
Schmoll et al. 2006).
However, from theoretical grounds, according to social learning theory teenagers’
attitude is an outcome of the socialisation where the individual is viewed as a passive
participant in the learning process (Bush, Smith & Martin 1999). Attitude is also viewed
as an inner tendency of human beings that can be expressed implicitly and explicitly
(Eagly & Chaiken 2007). Neal, Quester & Hawkins (2004) identified three components
of attitude from existing research: a) cognitive component (an attitude consists of a
consumers’ beliefs and knowledge about an object), b) affective component (a
consumers’ feelings or emotional reaction to an object), and c) behavioural component
(the tendency of the attitude holder to respond in a certain manner towards an object or
activity). However, the formation of attitudes through affective, cognitive, or
behavioural processes establishes associations that are linked to the attitude object and
can become part of the mental residue that is attitude. These associations can reflect one
or a mixture of the affective, cognitive, and behavioural precursors of attitude (Eagly &
Chaiken 2007).
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3.3.2.1 Consumption Related Attitudes Influenced by Television (RTV
Involvement)
The current literature of consumer socialisation reveals that teenagers’ attitudes are
highly influenced by TV (Barr & Hayne 1999; Eagly & Chaiken 2007; Russell, Norman
& Heckler 2004). TV influences a wide range of attitudinal domains that include from
macro issues (e.g., environment, economics) to particular consumption related events
(e.g., product evaluation) (Haron, Paim & Yahaya 2005). Moreover, teenagers’ attitudes
towards health issues, lifestyle and personal life are also influenced by TV (Banks &
Gupta 1980). TV also plays a vital role in influencing teenagers’ attitudes toward daily
life events, and to a greater extent, in consumption related behaviour (Bush, Martin &
Bush 2004; Donohue 1975). Generally, teenagers’ attitudinal development as a result of
involvement with TV is viewed from a social perspective followed by the context of
consumer socialisation (Banks & Gupta 1980; Hastings & Aitken 1995).
From theoretical grounds, social learning theory indicates that TV is one of the
important socialisation agents that causes teenagers’ attitudinal development and
influences their behavioural intentions (Haron, Piam & Yahaya 2005; Bush, Martin &
Bush 2004). Social learning theory mainly highlighted the observational learning of
teenagers from TV that influence teenagers’ consumption related attitude (Lueg &
Finney 2007; Sullivan et al. 2007). These attitudinal and behavioural intentions are
considered as an integral output of socialisation (Bush, Martin & Bush 2004; Moschis
& Moore 1979). According to social learning theory; teenagers mostly observe from
socialisation agents and develop their perceptions followed by particular actions (John
1999; Moschis & Moore 1979; Moschis & Churchill 1978). Furthermore, from the
perspective of displacement theory, teenagers watch various content and role models on
TV. In particular, the content shown on TV, and celebrities are the key sources of
teenagers’ attitudinal development (Hastings & Aitken 1995; Kocher & Lalos 2008;
Sullivan et al. 2007). Teenagers’ consumption related attitude development is also
viewed from the perspective of cultivation theory. Cultivation theory suggests that the
higher involvement with TV brings greater changes in values, beliefs, and resulting
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behaviour (Hastings & Aitken 1995; Harrison & Cantor 1997; Nacos 2000). Therefore,
teenagers’ consumption related attitude can be explained through their involvement
with TV.
So far, various researchers (Choi & Ferle 2004; Churchill & Moschis 1979) noted that
teenagers’ attitude towards consuming products and services in the market places are
largely influenced by the knowledge acquired through TV. TV as a consumer
socialisation agent also influences teenagers’ perceptions about fashion, style and
clothing behaviour (Lachance, Beaudoin & Robitaille 2003; Russell, Norman &
Heckler 2004). Furthermore, teenagers’ tendency to imitate any particular role model on
TV is also influenced by TV (Russell, Norman & Heckler 2004). It is also very
common that TV celebrities create fashion consciousness among teenagers (Russell,
Norman & Heckler 2004). Even perceptions towards an attractive figure like celebrities
(e.g., slim, muscle, plastic surgery), are also triggered by TV (Wan & Faber 2003).
Moreover, teenagers’ desires towards product consumption or views on prohibiting any
unethical products are also influenced by TV (Kocher & Lalos 2008; Sullivan et al.
2007).
On the contrary, researchers often blame TV for its negative effects on teenagers’
attitudinal development (Abelman 2004). In particular, there is disagreement regarding
the credibility of information provided by TV (Barkin 2006). Various content of TV
through different vehicles is often accused of distorting teenagers’ attitudes towards the
consumption practice that includes eating disorder, unhealthy life style and excessive
expenditure. Further, previous research linked the positive relationship between TV
advertisements and unhealthy consumption habits that lead to a positive perception
towards prohibited items (Hastings & Aitken 1995; Schmoll et al. 2006). Further,
repeated exposures of unethical products (e.g., cigarette, alcohol) on TV create interest
as well as excessive thin models in different life style shows also trigger teenagers’
association with unhealthy life style (Hastings & Aitken 1995; Lawrie et al. 2006).
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In this research, involvement with RTV is considered as an antecedent variable of
teenagers’ consumption related attitudinal development. As one of the most
contemporary forms of TV vehicles, RTV has brought a lot of exclusive features into it
(e.g., nature of participants, various content, format, rewards, program layout) (Bown
2008; Frutkin 2008; Lundy & Jacobson 2008; Jacobs 2008; James 2007) Therefore,
with more teenagers’ involvement in it, it is expected it will lead to their development
of consumption related attitudes. In particular, from the perspective of cultivation
theory, teenagers’ involvement (e.g., time spent, attention, likings) with RTV may help
develop their fashion consciousness and motivate them to imitate RTV celebrities
(Mellor 2003; Scardino 2005). Furthermore, from the perspective of displacement
theory, various content of RTV (e.g., life style shows, celebrity fashion shows) may also
influence teenagers’ perception towards using products and brands (Idato 2007; Stevens
2007). However, most of this learning occurs as a result of vicarious, rather than direct
experience, and through a process of imitating behaviour of others called modelling.
Therefore, imitating the role models from RTV and observing different content as well
as getting involved in RTV are assumed to be grounds of teenagers’ consumption
related attitudinal development.
Furthermore, teenagers’ interest towards electronic media, particularly TV is observed
in developing countries (Bhosale & Gupta 2006). As mentioned earlier, previous
research, though mostly developed country based, shows that TV directly affects
teenagers' consumption related attitudes (Hirschman & Thompson 1997; Schomoll et al.
2006). Similarly, development of consumption related attitudes through TV is also
expected among teenagers of developing countries. Furthermore, there is teenagers’
growing involvement with TV in developing countries (Chan 2003; Nath 2006).
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In this research, teenagers’ consumption related attitudinal development was addressed
from the perspective of TV involvement. As previously identified, teenagers' attitude
formation towards consumption is one of the outcomes of their consumer socialisation.
Discussions in this section also show that researchers in the field agree that an attitude
has three components: cognition (knowing), affect (feeling) and behavioural intension
(doing). An intention to behave in a certain way is influenced by teenagers’ knowledge
and feeling towards the object, and a liked spokesperson can enhance teenagers’
feelings towards the object. Furthermore, a common and effective approach to changing
attitude is to focus on the cognitive component.
Accordingly, based on the above discussion, for this research we can hypotheses that:
H2: There is a positive impact of RTV involvement on consumption related
attitude.
H3: There is a positive impact of consumption related cognition on consumption
related attitude.
The extant literatures of consumer socialisation have so far, hardly made any
contribution regarding consumption related attitude development through RTV
involvement. Therefore, scale items to measure consumption related attitude are mostly
adapted from current research findings on consumer socialisation by the media.
Consumption related attitude is a vital outcome of the consumer socialisation, which is
one of the vital constructs in this research, and in the proposed model. Furthermore, the
interrelationships between consumption related cognition and attitude are assumed in
this research.
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3.3.3 Values
Schiffman et al. (2005, p. 637) defined values as “relatively enduring beliefs that serve
as guides for what is considered ‘appropriate’ behaviour and are widely accepted by the
members of the society”. Values are widely held beliefs about what is acceptable and/or
desirable (Neal, Quaster & Hakins 2004). So, consumption related values can be
conceptualised as shared beliefs among group members as to what behaviours are
desirable or undesirable toward products, prohibited product consumption, materialism
and anti-social behaviour. Blackwell, et al (2007) also added values as the terminals
(goals) or instrumental (behaviour) beliefs of individuals. However, in various
socialisation research learning has been addressed as part and parcel of socialisation
(Chan 2003; John 1999; Moschis & Moore 1979). The process by which people develop
their values, motivations and habitual activities called socialisation. This learning
develops individuals’ values that are also considered as an outcome of socialisation
(Chan 2003; Moschis & Churchill 1978).
However, various researches (Homar & Kahale 1988; McCarty & Shrum 1993)
indicated that theoretical contributions of values are mediated by attitude. McCarty and
Shrum (1993) showed the interrelationship among values, attitude and behaviour. They
also indicated that attitude plays a mediating role in the value-behaviour relationship.
Moreover, McCarty and Shrum (1993) conferred that values have an indirect affect on
behaviour: Values influence attitude, and attitude in turn influences behaviour.
Blackwell et al. (2007) summarised from current literature that like attitude, values
represent consumer beliefs about life and acceptable behaviour. Unlike attitude, values
transcend situations or events and are more enduring because they are more central in
the personality structure. Values are particularly important in the need recognition stage
of consumer decision making. However, values are enduring motivations or the ‘ends’
people seek in their lives. In a sense, Marketing often provides the ‘means’ to reach
these ends.
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3.3.3.1 Consumption Related Values Transmitted by Television (RTV
Involvement)
According to Saint-Cyr (2003), TV exists in the value system of an individual that is
also reflected in their consumption related behaviour. In the extant literature, it is
found that TV transmits not only moral values, norms and social codes, but also
develops consumption related values of individuals (Chan 2003; Kamineni 2005).
Overall, Saint-Cyr (2003) addressed that TV helps to shape the opinions, beliefs and
values of an individual, which ultimately leads to their consumption related behaviour.
Most of the studies of the role of the media in the socialisation are based on cultivation
theory and social learning theory (Gruber & Thau 2003). In particular, Gerbner’s
cultivation theory is one of the most crucial and widely applied theories addressing the
effect of media on beliefs and values (Gerbener 1990; Morgan & Shanahan 1998).
According to Gerbener (1990), “cultivation means the specific independent contribution
that a particularly consistent and compelling symbolic stream makes to the complex
process of socialisation and enculturation” (P.249). Cultivation theory particularly
suggests that frequent viewing increases the likelihood of the adoption of expressed
values and beliefs that ultimately adjust actual behaviour. From the perspective of
cultivation theory, children’s higher rate of TV consumption viewing brings greater
change in consumption related values and beliefs and resulting consumption relating
behaviours (Gruber & Thau 2003). Furthermore, social learning theory posits that
teenagers learn from observing others’ behaviour that influences their values and beliefs
(Bandura 1977; Ward & Rivadeneyra 1999). In particular, observing TV characters and
different content affects teenagers’ passive learning that ultimately influences their
consumption related values (Bushman 2005; Russell, Norman & Heckler 2004).
Teenagers’ consumption related values are also examined from the perspectives of
displacement theory (Gruber & Thau 2003; Clark, Nabi & Emily 2007). Teenagers’
interest towards consuming new brands, product consumption imagery and pester
power are largely addressed as a result of involvement with TV (Chan 2003; Malthouse
& Calder 2007).
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Teenagers’ values towards consuming products and services in the market-place are
largely influenced by knowledge acquired through TV (Gruber & Thau 2003). On the
one hand, personal values systems affect TV consumption habits (McCarty & Shrum
1993). On the other hand, TV also shapes the consumption values of consumers (Burke
2005). Saint-Cyr (2003) mentioned that overall consumption values of teenagers are
largely transmitted by TV these days, and that has both pros and cons. In particular,
teenagers’ material values are largely influenced by the content and products shown on
TV (Shrum, Burroughs & Rondfleisch 2005; Chan & Prendergast 2007). Teenagers’
interest in getting the best and latest products shown on TV, as well as their desire to
have more pocket money from parents, are considered to measure teenagers' material
values (Chan 2003). Moreover, teenagers often use their pester power to get a particular
product shown on TV (Chan 2003; Ghani 2005).
However, TV’s role in influencing teenagers’ consumption related values can be
negative as well (Peterson et al. 2007). Chan (2003) mentioned that the grey side of
materialism has been treated as negative values connected to possessiveness, envy, and
lack of generosity, greed and jealousy. Moreover, beliefs towards deceptive
expenditure, such as consuming unethical products (e.g., cigarette, alcohol) are strongly
triggered by TV (Bristol & Mangleburg 2005b). Further, various researchers (Burke
2005; Gruber & Thau 2003; Hennessy 2006) also found that TV is responsible for
teenagers’ anti-social behaviour that includes aggression, violence and distorted
consumption behaviour (e.g., scanty outfits, eating disorders, provocative clothing).
Furthermore, TV is accused of transmitting irrelevant cultural values among
teenagers which also triggers their consumption related values (Zhang & Harwood
2002).
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In this research, involvement with RTV is considered as an antecedent variable of
transmitting and developing consumption related values among teenagers. It has already
been mentioned that RTV offers lot of exclusive features (e.g., nature of participants,
various content, format, rewards, and program layout) (Bown 2008; Frutkin 2008;
Lundy & Jacobson 2008; Jacobs 2008; James 2007). Therefore, with more teenagers’
involvement in it, it is expected that it will lead to their consumption related values. In
particular, from the perspective of cultivation theory, teenagers’ involvement (e.g., time
spent, attention, participation) with RTV may develop their consumption related values.
Information based RTV shows different products and brands that might influence
teenagers’ desire towards consuming new brands and their overall sense of materialism
(Chan 2000; Ghani 2005). Furthermore, the rewards system of RTV has great appeal to
teenagers which might influence their sense of materialism (Gould & Gupta 2006).
Displacement theory also states that various content of RTV (e.g., elimination game
shows, lifestyle shows) may also influence teenagers’ interest towards prohibited
products (Gruber & Thau 2003; Hastings & Aitken 2005), since lot of prohibited items
(e.g., alcohol, cigarettes) are placed on lifestyle based game shows. However,
teenagers’ consumption related values are mostly transmitted by TV through
observation and the passive learning method. Teenagers mostly feel attached to
celebrities of RTV, and get influenced by their fashion, style and personalities (Bush,
Martin & Bush 2004; Berman 2008; Scardino 2005). Therefore, imitating the role
models from RTV and observing different content, as well as getting involved in RTV,
are assumed to be solid ground for influencing and transmitting consumption related
values among teenagers.
Teenagers’ interest towards the media and the growth of electronic media is observed in
developing countries (Bhosale & Gupta 2006; Nath 2006). As mentioned earlier,
previous research, though mostly developed country based, shows that TV directly
affects teenagers’ consumption related value development (Burke 2005; Peterson et al.
2007). Similarly, consumption related values transmitted by TV are also expected
among the teenagers of developing countries. Furthermore, there is teenagers’
involvement with TV in developing countries (Bhosale & Gupta 2006; Nath 2006). As
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previously identified, values formation on consumption is an outcome of the consumer
socialisation of teenagers. From the discussion in this section, it can be established that
values are the enduring beliefs that serve as guide for what is considered appropriate
behaviour, in this case consumption behaviour, by the society. Moreover, values
influence consumers’ attitudes and attitudes in turn, the consumer behaviour.
Accordingly, based on the existing literature, for this research, we can hypothesise that:
H4: There is a positive impact of RTV involvement on consumption related values.
H5: There is a positive impact of consumption related values on consumption
related attitude.
In this research, the domain of scale items to measure consumption related values have
been mostly adapted from current research on consumer socialisation by the media.
Consumption related values are a vital outcome of the consumer socialisation, which is
one of the critical constructs in this research. Furthermore, the interrelationships
between consumption related values and attitude are assumed in this research.
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3.4 Social Structural Variables in Consumer Socialisation
The roles of various social structural variables are observed while studying consumer
socialisation research. In particular, parental control (Chan & McNeal 2006b; Cogdon
2007), peer group influences (French, Pidada & Victor 2005), gender differences
(Yavas & Riecken 1990; Jung & Peterson 2007) and social class differences
(Kamaruddin & Mokhlis 2003; Shim 1996) are mostly considered to be social structural
variables in current consumer socialisation research. However, like any other domain of
consumer socialisation research, these social structural variables are largely examined
from the perspectives of developed countries. In particular, the role of these social
structural variables has not been addressed either in developing or in developed
countries, in relation to RTV involvement, to understand the consumer socialisation of
teenagers. In the following sections, the above mentioned social structural variables are
discussed to understand their role on consumer socialisation and to develop a model of
consumer socialisation by RTV.
3.4.1 Peer Group Influences on RTV Involvement of Teenagers
In the extant literature, peer groups, particularly friends, are considered to be one of the
crucial socialisation agents that play a significant role in the teenaged consumer
socialisaion process (Churchill & Moschis 1979; French, Pidada & victor 2005).
Moreover, various researchers indicated that peer groups play an important role in
teenagers’ media usage and involvement, which ultimately affects their consumer
socialisation (Lueg & Finney 2007). It has been shown in various consumer
socialisation researches that teenagers’ media usage behaviour is highly influenced by
their peers (Lueg & Finney 2007, Moschis & Moore 1979). However, compared to
parental control of teenagers’ media involvement, peer group influences on the same
has received less attention from researchers, particularly in developing countries.
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Within the limited range of current literature, peer groups influence on teenagers’ media
consumption are measured by reinforcement, modelling, motivation, co-viewing and
mediation (Edward & Grantham 2009; Nathanson 2001). Peer communication is
conceptualised as encouragement or approval of certain behaviour and intention, either
spoken (reinforcement) or unspoken (modelling) messages, which peers send to each
other. Peer communication also influences teenagers’ attitudes toward the TV vehicle
and content, which leads to the development of their material values and provides social
motivation for consumption (Bush, Smith & Martin 1999). Moreover, teenagers’
shopping behaviour through media (e.g., e-shopping) is largely influenced by their
peers’ reinforcement and modelling (Lueg & Finney 2007). According to Bush, Smith
and Martin (1999), reinforcement happens when peers encourage making purchases
through TV and the internet. Also, teenagers seek advice from their peers about buying
through the media (e.g., internet). Furthermore, modelling can indirectly influence
teenagers’ media usage by their peers’ media consumption behaviour, as they want
to have some attachment with their peers (Edward & Grantham 2009).
Peer groups serve the function of social comparison, self-evaluation, and co-learning
(Lloyd 1985), influencing teenagers’ motivation of media usage. Motivation occurs
when an individual is exposed to an external or internal stimulus, and is then pulled or
pushed in a direction to act upon the stimulus. Peers as co-learners play a role of
extrinsic motivation for using any particular media. Additionally, teenagers with similar
values tend to reinforce each other through supporting, sharing of resources, and
clarifying tasks for each other. These processes guide a teenagers’ motivation to act
while using any media.
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As already mentioned, peer group influence on teenagers’ media involvement is a
relatively less researched area. Adolescence is a period where peers' influence is strong
and growing, so there should be evidence of them in viewing behaviour. Perhaps then,
communication research would benefit from a construct such as peer mediation that
would capture the interaction that peers have with one another regarding media.
Overall, as a mediating factor, peers play a significant role between the media and
teenagers. Peers' mediation can be found through media discussion with peers, peers co-
viewing and perception of peers’ attitudes towards the media (Lueg & Finney 2007;
Nathanson 2001).
As a developing county, Bangladesh is a country with a large population. A large
number of teenagers socialise with their peers and friends, either in school or within
the community. Furthermore, teenagers of Dhaka city have involvement with TV (Nath
2006). Accordingly, based on the above discussion, the following hypothesis is made
for this research.
H6: There is a positive impact of peer groups influences on teenagers’ RTV
involvement.
So far, researches on peer group influence on teenagers’ TV have been mostly carried
out in developed countries or western cultural settings (Lueg & Finney 2007).
Therefore, scale items to measure peer group influences on teenagers’ media (TV)
involvement for this research has been mostly adapted from current literature. In this
research, peer group influences on teenagers’ RTV involvement is considered not only
as a construct but also as one of the social structural variables in this research.
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3.4.2 Parental Control on RTV Involvement of Teenagers
As has been already discussed (Sections 2.8.1 and 2.8.5) in the extant literature of
socialisation, parents and media have got the maximum attention of researchers. Among
diverse types of media, however, electronic media have got the greater attention of the
researchers in this field (Lachance, Beaudoin & Robitaille 2003; Zhang & Harwood
2002). TV has been considered to be the most influential consumer socialisation agent
among all media (Moscardelli & Liston-Heyes 2005). It has also been established by the
researchers that parents play a mediating role on teenagers’ media consumption habits
(Hennessy 2006; Keith 1986; Shifrin 2006). These days’ teenaged children have
involvement with a variety of media but still parents play a significant role in
influencing teenagers’ media consumption habits, which ultimately affect their
consumer socialisation. Though parental control on teenagers’ media usage has received
attention, but very little attention has been given by researchers about the outcome of
this parental media mediation process (Bulck & Bergh 2000).
From a theoretical point of view, the role of the media in relation to teenaged children’s
development and parental control on teenagers’ media usage are defined from various
perspectives. Various researches (Jordan 2004) have identified the theory of ecological
perspective to understand the role of the media in children’s development. In particular,
the micro-system perspective of ecological theory focuses on the role of the media and
the family’s domestic environment in children’s' development (Jordan 2004).
Furthermore, according to the exo-system perspective of ecological theory, parental
stresses might encourage or discourage the use of the media in a particular way.
Parents also socialise their teenaged children through the way they communicate
regarding TV involvement and that in turn also influences teenagers’ socialisation
(Chan & McNeal 2006c; Cogdon 2007; Fujioka & Austin 2002). The existing literature
indicates that family communication patterns are closely related to the parental control
on the media that influences teenagers’ media usage behaviour (Carlson Grossbart &
Stuenkel 1992). Family communication patterns provide a way of assessing the
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interaction between parents - children and their media consumption behaviour (Chan &
McNeal 2003). Family communication patterns can also be conceptualised through two
dimensions like ‘socio–orientation’ and ‘concept-orientation’ (Chan & McNeal 2003).
The first dimension, socio-orientation, measures vertical or relationship-oriented
patterns of communication and puts emphasis on parental control and the children’s
deference to authority. The second, concept-orientation, measures issue-oriented
communication and focus on the establishment of an independent evaluation of an issue
by the children. These two family communication patterns may be expanded into four
categories (e.g., protective, pluralistic, consensual, laissez–faire) (Bakir, Rose &
Shoham 2005; Fujioka & Austin 2002).
Moreover, Carlson, Lacznik and Walsh (2001) categorised parental style as ‘warm vs
hostile’, and ‘restrictive vs permissive’, which are also supported by some other
researchers (Bakir, Rose & Shoham 2005; Fujioka & Austin 2002). On the basis of the
parental communication dyad, pluralistic (low socio–oriented and high concept-
oriented) and consensual parents (high socio–oriented and high concept-oriented)
discuss and share various TV content and vehicles with their children. Whereas, laissez-
faire (neither concept nor socio oriented) and protective family communication patterns
(low concept-high socio-oriented) reveal the least bilateral communication between
parents and children (Carlson, Lacznik & Walsh 2001; Chan & McNeal 2003).
Overall, Moschis (1981) noted that the influence of socio-oriented communication
structures appear to be indirect, by influencing TV viewing motives, which in turn
affect the development of materialistic orientations. On the other hand, concept-oriented
family communication structures apparently lead to differential exposure to media,
which in turn may lead to consumer knowledge; the influence does not appear to be
direct. However, consumer activity relates strongly to concept-orientation, suggesting a
direct family impact on such behaviours. Overall, parental communication styles affect
the teenagers’ media consumption habits, which ultimately develop the teenagers’
consumption related behaviour (Isler, Topper & Ward 1987; Wiman 1983).
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On the one hand, consumer socialisation of teenagers’ through media depends on
parental style. On the other hand, teenagers’ perception about parental attitudes towards
the media also affects their involvement with the media (Carlson, Laczniak & Walsh
2001). Various researchers have found that mothers play the most important gate
keeping role regarding the time, content, and programs of TV (Carlson, Laczniak &
Walsh 2001; Chan & McNeal 2003). Furthermore, Carlson, Laczniak and Walsh (2001)
mentioned that mothers’ verbal interaction about TV and co-viewing, along with giving
an opinion, monitoring, and the controlling of TV, varies across cultures. Fujioka and
Austin (2002) indicated that the parental mediating role has a huge impact on teenagers’
media usage behaviour. Parent-child discussion patterns related to the media are often
referred to as parental mediation, defined as, the active discussion of the TV content
with the child (Fujioka & Austin 2002). Parental mediation can also be distinguished as
a) positive mediation (parental endorsement of TV message and content), b) negative
mediation (parental counterarguments or contextualisation of TV messages).
Interestingly, from the teenagers point of view; parental media mediation particularly,
mothers’ TV mediation is portrayed as mothers’ TV co-viewing frequency, mothers’
opinions about TV shows, and mothers’ knowledge about TV (Carlson, Laczniak &
Walsh 2001). Overall, parents have four major routes by which they can modify the
effects of television messages like, a) making restrictions on a child’s TV viewing, b)
active mediation via critical discussion of television messages with a child, c) the
general style of communication patterns that exist within the family and d) the example
parents set as models for children to imitate (Fujioka & Austin 2002).
Researchers (Cardoza 2002; Kuhl 2006) have diverse views about parental control on
media in developed and developing countries. However, like any other socialisation
research, parental control in developing countries teenagers’ media usage is also
generally less researched (Cardoza 2002). Comparatively, parents in developed
countries consider TV as an affective academic and entertainment tool for their
children, also, they give their teenaged children more freedom to use various media
(Kuhl 2006) than their developing countries' counterparts. Interestingly, co-viewing and
verbal interaction between parents and children are largely observed in developed
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countries while watching TV (Carlson, Grossbart & Stuenkel 1992; Kim & Shin 1996).
On the contrary, in developing countries, parental control on TV is measured by
encompassing mediation, regulation, restriction, criticism, reinforcement, rules (explicit
and implicit), and censorship (Cardoza 2002). Due to social and cultural reasons, most
of the developing countries' teenaged children are sheltered by their parents (Cardoza
2002). Most of the time parents in developing countries decide for their children what to
watch and when (Kennedy 1996). Furthermore, parents provide moderate control over
TV programs and content selection, followed by escaping sensitive issues (e.g. sexual
content, violence) shown on TV (Cardoza 2002). Consequently, teenagers of
developing countries follow parental direction regarding involvement with TV more
than their counterparts in developed countries (Cardoza 2002). Accordingly, based on
the above discussion, for this research, the following hypothesis may be developed:
H7: Parents through communication, mediation and instruction positively
influence teenagers’ RTV involvement.
So far, researchers on parental control of teenaged children’s media usage have been
mostly carried out in developed countries or western cultural settings (Barkin 2006;
Fujioka & Austin 2002). For this research, scale items to measure the parental control of
teenagers’ media (TV) involvement have been mostly adapted from current literature.
Parental control on teenagers’ RTV involvement is considered not only as a construct,
but also as one of the social structural variables in this research.
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3.4.3 Gender Differences of Teenagers and RTV Involvement
As one of the social structural variables, gender issues have received major
attention from researchers in consumer socialisation (Belk 1991; Kamaruddin &
Mokhlis 2003). As children grow up, they start considering the media a vital source of
information and entertainment that ultimately influences their consumption related
behaviour (Belk 1991). On the one hand, the media influences teenagers’ socialisation.
On the other hand, teenagers’ perception and values connect themselves with various
media (Anderson et al. 2001; Yavas & Riecken 1990). Similarly, teenagers’ gender
differences affect the nature and level of their involvement with various media. The
socialisation outcome of media involvement also varies due to gender differences of
teenagers (Chang 2006; Jung & Peterson 2007).
In the extant literature, TV has been considered a vital consumer socialisation agent in
the consumer socialisation, but by and large, it has been viewed from the perspective of
TV commercial (TVC) (Schomoll et al. 2006; Wolin 2003). The reciprocal relationship
of gender differences with TV Involvement are largely overlooked in the consumer
socialisation research (Bushman 2005). However, researchers have started focusing
lately on teenagers’ involvement with TV that affects the consumer socialisation (John
1999; Tiggemann 2005).
Among the electronic media, TV has got the maximum attention of the consumer
socialisation researchers. Teenagers’ tastes and preferences towards involvement with
TV vary due to gender differences. Various theories like ‘comparison theory’
and ‘mood management theory’ discuss the boys' and girls' involvement differences
towards the media (Jung & Peterson 2007; Knobloch-Westerwick 2007). Comparison
theory focuses on teenagers’ upward and downward comparison with others regarding
beauty consciousness and body image, which is largely influenced by TV. On the
contrary, Mood management theory conceptualises selections of media messages as
motivated by affect optimisation goals, which is originally called the theory of affect-
dependent stimulus arrangement. Its theoretical claims which pertain to enhancement of
both emotions and moods regarding media involvement vary due to gender differences.
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However, research findings reveal that boys and girls show their involvement
differences towards various media. In particular, boys prefer more violence and musical
TV programs (Tufte & Halling 2002; Tiggemann 2005). Also, boys generally have
a higher inclination toward non-academic programs. Further, athletes in TV programs
provide a sense of body image to the teenaged boys (Jung & Peterson 2007; Tiggemann
2005). On the other hand, teenaged girls are strong followers of life style based shows
(e.g., style and fashion related shows, glamour based reality shows) which create their
beauty consciousness as well as influence their sense of sexual appeal (Clark &
Tiggemann 2006; Harrison & Cantor 1997; Lawrie et al. 2006). Interestingly, teenaged
girls process more information from TV than boys (Mangleburg & Grewal 1997), but
show lower responses towards the marketing stimuli from TV (Kamaruddin & Mokhlis
2003; Schmoll et al. 2006). Teenaged girls also show greater interest towards academic
programs, non-violent content and drama shows on TV (Tiggemann 2005). However,
Tiggemann (2005) also addressed that girls show similar interest in musical programs
like boys. Overall, teenagers’ gender differences have a large impact on TV
involvement (Anderson et al. 2001; Yavas & Reichken 1990). Boys are
inclined towards action and fantasy, while girls lean towards romance, gossip, and
glamour in TV programs (Grimes et al. 2004). Overall, sports based programs are
preferred by the teenagers followed by musical and drama serials (Cardoza 2002;
Kennedy 1996). Table 3.1 shows the teenagers’ involvement towards different TV
programs that vary due to gender differences.
Table 3.1 Comparison between Boys and Girls’ Involvement with TV shows (Source:
Tiggemann 2005)
Nature of TV Shows Boys Girls
Total TV viewing (hrs per
week)
24.5 21.1
Sports 5.0 1.7
Information 1.2 0.7
Soaps 1.6 3.8
Music Video 1.3 2.2
Entertainment 14.6 12.2
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Research shows variations in their tastes and preferences towards TV programs also
influence teenaged boys and girls’ socialisation differently. As mentioned earlier, TV
commercial (TVC) has so far got the most research attention to understand the affect of
the media on teenagers’ consumer socialisation (Brand & Greenberg 1994; Donohue
1975; Gorn & Florsheim 1985; Rossiter 1979). Teenagers’ preference towards the
model, TV personalities, brand consumption attitudes, and information provided by
advertisements (TVC) are perceived differently due to gender differences (Jung &
Peterson 2007; Mangleburg & Grewal 1997; Suri & Phillip 2004). Moreover, learning
from TVCs and their influence on the consumer socialisation (e.g., purchasing brand
items, demand for fashionable apparel, reading the product label) varies between boys
and girls as addressed by different researchers (Kamaruddin & Mokhlis 2003;
Mangleburg & Grewal 1997).
Teenagers’ consumption related behavioural outcomes affected by TV also reflect
differences between boys and girls. Differences are also observed in teenagers’
consumption related cognition through development of product information processing
capacity, product recalling capacity, the influence of role models, and development of
consumption related skills from TV (Jung & Peterson 2007). Furthermore, teenaged
boys and girls perceive the products and services differently displayed on TV, which
leads to their consumption related attitude (Jung & Peterson 2007; Kamaruddin &
Mokhlis 2003). Moschis and Churchill (1978) also mentioned that teenaged boys and
girls respond differently towards consuming products and expressing their desire
towards the social motivation for consumption.
Based on the limited research conducted in developing countries so far, it can be
concluded that teenagers show different levels of involvement with the media than their
developed countries' counterparts (Cardoza 2002; Nath 2006). However, media
accessibility determines the teenagers’ preferences towards media consumption
behaviour in developing countries (Nath 2006). In particular, teenagers irrespective of
their gender have more or less similar access to media in urban areas which are not
observed in rural areas in developing countries (Nath 2006). However, in developing
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countries, boys enjoy slightly more access to TV than girls (Nath 2006). Accordingly,
based on the above discussion, for this research, the following hypothesis may
be developed:
H8: There is a difference between male and female teenagers’ involvement with
RTV and its effect on their consumer socialisation.
3.4.4 Social Class Theories
Social class differences, as a vital social structural variable, have received major
attention from researchers in consumer socialisation research (Durham 1999; Granhaug
& Venkatesh 1986). Therefore, social class differences of teenagers have also been
considered in this research, to explore their impact on the consumer socialisation.
Social class is defined as the hierarchical division of a society into relatively distinct
and homogeneous groups with respect to attitude, values and lifestyle (Neal, Quester &
Hawkins 2004). Furthermore, this attitude, values and lifestyles differ between the
members of different social classes (Hoyer & Maclnnis 2007). Social class as a
construct relates to various dimensions of social position, which includes power,
prestige, and economic well being (Conger & Dogan 2007). Social classes are not
formal groups with a strong identity, but rather loose collections of individuals with
similar life experiences. Social class structures are important because they strongly
affect norms and values, and therefore behaviour. Given that members of a social class
interact regularly with each other (both formally and informally); people are more likely
to be influenced by individuals in their own social class than by those in other classes.
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Social class cannot be measured directly, but indicators of social class status are
typically perceived by tangible (e.g., income, occupation, education) and intangible
factors (e.g., lifestyle, ties and political connections (Pope, Brennan & Voges 2007).
Historically, the most widely used index, W. Lloyd Warner’s Index of status
characteristics (ISC) is a method of measuring social class that evaluates occupation,
source of income, house type and location of home. The ISC is based on the following
socio-economic indicators: a) occupation (ranging from unskilled workers to
professional), b) source of income (range from public relief to inherited wealth) c)
education (no academic education to graduate) and, d) dwelling area (ranging from
slums to expensive areas).
According to Solomon et al. (2007), measuring of social class is a complex and difficult
task because of following reasons:
a) Most measurement of the social classes was designed to accommodate the
traditional nuclear family, with a male wage earner in the middle of his career
and a female full time homemaker. Such measures have trouble accounting for
two income families, young singles living alone, or households headed by
women, which are so prevalent in today’s society.
b) Another problem with measuring social class is attributable to the increasing
anonymity of our society. Earlier studies relied on the reputation method in
which extensive interviewing was done within a community to determine the
reputations and backgrounds of individuals. This approach is virtually
impossible to implement in most communities today.
c) The accuracy of questionnaires relies largely on the interviewers’ judgement,
especially regarding the quality of the respondent’s neighbourhood. These
impressions are in danger of being biased by the interviewer’s own
circumstances, which may affect his or her standard of comparison.
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d) Assigning any group of people to a social class while they may not be equal
in their standing in all of the relevant dimensions. A person might come from a
low status ethnic group, but have a high status job, whereas another may live in
a fancy part of town but may not have finished high school.
Most countries have different kinds of social class structure depending on its relative
prosperity. For example, compared with the USA, Japan and Scandinavia have an even
larger and more predominant middle class with a much smaller group above and below.
In the developing countries, most of the concentrations are in the middle and lower
classes. In China, as one of the relatively affluent developing countries, 130 million
people belong to the middle class and will grow to 400 million within the next 10 years.
Interestingly, the upper classes in most societies are more similar to each other then
they are to other classes within their own countries because the upper classes tend to be
more cosmopolitan and international in orientation.
3.4.4.1 Social Class Differences of Teenagers and their RTV Involvement
In the extant literature of socialisation, social class has been considered as one of the
major social structural variables (Kamaruddin & Mokhlis 2003; Shim 1996). Social
class has also been considered while proposing conceptual models of consumer
socialisation (Moschis & Churchill 1978; Moschis & Moore 1979). Moreover, social
class is considered as mediating factor that affects the socialisation outcomes (Bradley
& Corwyn 2002; Conger & Dogan 2007). Generally, the nature of socialisation and its
affects vary in terms of social class and cultural variations (Kamaruddin & Mokhlis
2003).
Socialisation researchers so far have been contributing towards the relationship between
the media and adolescent together, but very few of them carried the issue of teenagers’
media usage from the perspective of social class differences (Durham 1999). However,
from a theoretical perspective, gratification theory (media and ways of life model)
discusses how audience selection of TV content depends on whether it is satisfying their
informational and entertainment needs (López-Sintas & García-Álvarez 2006), and
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ecological theories reveal the ideas regarding the affect of the socio-economic status of
teenagers and its relationship with the way the media impacts on the consumer
socialisation of teenagers (Erametsa 1990; Mark 1998). These theories either describe
the socio-economic status of teenagers reflecting their media consumption behaviour, or
how different media are perceived in different social classes. These days, sociologists
are also researching the social class differences of teenagers and their media
consumption habits, which are extending the knowledge of socialisation (López-Sintas
& García-Álvarez 2006). Generally, teenagers’ social class is measured by their
occupation and education (Erametsa 1990). Interestingly, from the point of view of
media consumption habits, social class is also measured by the educational level and
income level of teenagers (López-Sintas & García-Álvarez 2006).
So far, teenagers’ involvement with TV from the perspective of social class
differences is relatively less researched (Lachance, Beaudoin & Robitaille 2003;
Tiggemann 2005). Within the last few decades, various researchers (Erametsa 1990;
Granhaug & Venkatesh 1986; Mark 1998; Van Eijck 2001) have found teenagers’
social class differences as a determinant variable of teenagers’ TV involvement, which
in turn affect their socialisation. Furthermore, Erametsa (1990) mentioned that media
content and vehicle selection is also influenced by different social class, because values,
appreciation, and consumption habits vary between social classes. In addition,
teenagers’ involvement with the media in different social classes is measured by
accessibility, affordability, availability and home environment (Griswold, Mcdonnell &
Wright 2005).
Interestingly, López-Sintas and García-Álvarez (2006) mentioned that social class status
can also be stratified by media consumption habits and choice (e.g., TV fans, occasional
film goers, light film goers, film fans, audio-visual fans). Social-class differences of
teenagers strongly affect their preferences in selecting particular content and vehicles of
TV (Mark 1998). Robinston et al. (2004) mentioned that the academic status of
teenagers significantly influences their TV program selection. TV usage preferences
also vary between different social classes, not only for informational purposes, but also
for entertainment purposes (López-Sintas & García-Álvarez 2006).
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Teenagers’ social class differences reflect their TV usage behaviour in terms of vehicle
and content selection (Traeen, Nilsen & Stigum 2006; Van Eijck 2001). Researchers
have found that upper-class teenagers are culturally much more conscious regarding
various media than their lower social class counterparts (Van Eijck 2001). Teenagers
from a middle class social background also show more impulse interest towards various
media (Butsch 2001). In particular, TV is observed as an important medium for the
middle class teenagers to meet their informational and entertainment needs (Butsch
2001). However, the findings of media preferences of the middle class teenagers often
vary. Lopez-Sintas and Garcia-Alvarez (2006) found that middle class teenagers with
moderate income and education show interest towards TV. On the other hand, Shim
(1996) mentioned that upper-middle class teenagers show their inclination towards
reading magazines more than watching TV. Butsch (2001) observed those middle-class
norms as ‘work, activity and self-betterment,’ and the middle-class ‘work ethic’ results
in ‘less TV and a larger proportion of realistic, non-entertaining, self-betterment
programs.’ Middle class teenagers also show interest in libraries, home diversion, and
lecture studies, followed by involvement with cultural activities (Van Eijck 2001).
It is also supported by various researchers from the perspectives of developed countries,
that middle class teenagers have less inclination towards TV than their lower social
class counterparts (Butsch 2001; Dubow, Huesmann & Greenwood 2007). Furthermore,
teenagers from lower social classes show interest in TV content selection and TV
vehicle preferences (Butsch 2001; White 1995). Teenagers from the working class
mostly watch TV for entertainment purposes which also influences their consumption
fantasies (Butsch 2001). Greenberg (1974) also mentioned that teenagers from the lower
social class also prefer too much violence, sexual content and offensive language used
by the TV personalities. Moreover, teenagers from the lower social class consider
media to be a status symbol (Butsch 2001). Butsch (2001) also identifies middle social
class teenagers as the ‘reality group’ (mature users) and teenagers from the lower social
class as ‘fantasy group’ (immature audiences).
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Teenagers’ social class background differences not only influence teenagers’ nature of
involvement with TV, but also affect their consumption socialisation. Generally,
teenagers from the middle social class have higher academic and economic status than
their lower social class counterparts. Moreover, they have higher access to different
media than their lower social class counterparts. Therefore, they understand and process
information better than their lower social class counterparts’ (e.g., social information,
consumption related information) (Durham 1999; Robinston et al. 2004). As a result,
the outcome of the consumer socialisation, such as consumption related cognition,
attitude and values, take different shapes between the two social classes (Granhaug &
Venkatesh 1986). According to Graunhaug and Venkatesh (1986), buying decision
styles, saving patterns and motives for product consumption are part of the cognitive
and affective development that also vary between the two social classes due to different
media exposure. Teenagers’ consumption related attitudes and values are also closely
related to their parents' resource allocation for their teenaged children, whereas media
influences teenagers’ expenditure patterns. Furthermore, consumption related values
such as eating habits, household goods consumption, and dietary habits also vary
between the two social classes due to media exposure (Mark 1998; Robinson 2004).
Shim (1996) also identified some reverse affects of TV on the consumer socialisation,
such as utilitarian, social/conspicuous and undesirable orientation that also vary due to
social class differences.
Most countries have different kinds of social class structures depending on the relative
prosperity of a particular country. Income, occupation, house type, education and
dwelling area are the most common determinants to define social class, both in
developed and developing countries. Social class differences affect the media usage of
developing countries' teenagers differently where most of the concentrations are
observed in middle and lower social classes. Recently, growth of both the middle class
and media is observed in developing countries (Bhosale & Gupta 2006; Nath 2006).
Furthermore, they mostly keep themselves updated, with higher access to a wide range
of local and foreign TV channels. Whereas, due to a low literacy rate, teenagers of the
lower social class show low interest in reading magazines and newspapers (Nath 2006).
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H9: There is a difference between middle and lower social class teenagers’
involvement with RTV and its effect on their consumer socialisation.
3.5 Conclusion
In this chapter, the relevant literatures concerning the parent and immediate disciplines
for this research have been evaluated. Based on this evaluation, some key hypotheses
have been developed. Also, a proposed model, as shown in Figure 3.2 has been
developed considering the hypotheses. On the basis of the extant literature of consumer
socialisation research, ‘RTV Involvement’ has been considered as a connecting
construct between socialisation outcome and social structural variables in the proposed
model. Whereas, ‘Peer group influences on RTV involvement’ (Section 3.4.1) and
‘Parental control on RTV’ (Section 3.4.2) and are considered as social structural
variables. Furthermore, ‘Consumption related cognition’ (Section 3.3.1.1),
‘Consumption related attitude’ (Section 3.3.2.1), and ‘Consumption related values’
(Section 3.3.3.1) are examined as an outcome of the consumer socialisation. Table 3.2
below shows domains of multi-item measurement scales of the key outcome constructs
and social structural variables identified throughout the literature review above. From
the existing literature review, a number of variables are identified that were useful to
test the hypotheses for this research. Furthermore, these variables were tested to develop
the proposed model.
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Figure 3.2 Proposed Model of the Consumer Socialisation of Teenagers’ by RTV
(CSRTV)
H6 H1 H3
H7 H2 H2
H8 H5
H4 H5
H9
Table 3.2 List of Constructs, Domains and Scale Items Adapted from Literature
Constructs Domains Scale Items Cognition
(Consumption related cognition)
a) Product knowledge
b) Consumer role perception
c) Purchasing intentions
d) Information processing
e) recalling capacity
f) consumption related skills
(Bartlett, Griffiths & Badian
2008; Bush, Martin & Bush
2004; Moschis & Moore
1978; Zuckerman, Ziegler &
Stevenson 1978; Ward &
Wackman 1974)
1) RTV make me aware about
particular brands
2) I understand product usage
instruction from RTV
3) RTV helps me to recall about
certain products
4) RTV helps me to recognise
particular products and brands
5) RTV helps me to decide what
brands to buy
6) RTV is a good way to learn
about what products/bands are
available in market
7) The opinion of my favorite
RTV celebrities influence me to
say positive things about products
or brands to other people
8 ) RTV helps me to do value
analysis (compare price and
benefit of brands) before buying
Peer group influences
Parental control
Gender differences
RTV Involvement
Consumption related cognition
Consumption related attitude
Consumption related values Social class differences
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Attitude (Consumption related attitude)
a) Fashion
b) Imitation
c)Inspiration from media
personalities
d) Attitude towards product
placement
(Hirschman & Thompson
1997 Lawrie 2006; Russell,
Norman & Heckler 2004;
Schmoll et al. 2006).
1) I get fashion tips from RTV
2) I like the product shown on
RTV
3) I often buy clothing styles that I
have seen in RTV
4) My favorite RTV celebrities
make me fashion conscious
5) I want to get good figure like
RTV celebrities (e.g. slimmer,
muscular)
6) Thin models in RTV creates my
interest (e.g., plastic surgery, diet
habit, figure shape)
7) I see my favorite RTV celebrity
as my idol
8) I would like to have lunch with
my favorite RTV celebrity
9) I feel very strongly about
banning unethical products (e.g.,
tobacco, beer, alcohol) shown in
RTV
Values (Consumption related values)
a) Desire towards products
b) Prohibited product
consumption
c) Materialism
d) Antisocial behaviour
(Chan 2003; Ghani 2005;
Gruber & Thau 2003; Wyllie,
Zhang & Casswell 1998)
1) I like to own the newest things
shown on RTV
2) I like to own the best things
shown on RTV
3) It is better to have more
allowance from parents to buy the
brand shown on RTV
4) I often request my parents to get
the products shown on RTV
5) I often request my parents to get
the products shown on
advertisements in RTV shows
6) Some RTV shows promote use
of prohibited items (e.g., alcohol,
cigarette) among teenagers
7) Consumption of prohibited
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items (e.g., alcohol, cigarette)
makes life more fun and exciting
8) I like the sexually appealing
outfit worn by RTV participants
and judges
Peers group influences a) Reinforcement
b) Modelling
c) Extrinsic motivation
d) Peer co-viewing
e) Peers mediation
(Edward & Grantham 2009;
Lueg & Finney 2007;
Nathanson 2001)
1) My friends and I talk about
content of RTV shows (e.g.,
entertainment, sex, information)
2) My friends and I watch often
RTV together
3) My friends think the content of
RTV shows can provide useful
information
4) My friends think content of
RTV are entertaining
5) My peers encourage me to send
SMS to RTV
6) My peers’ opinions on RTV
shows are important to me
7) My friends and I participate
together live on the RTV shows
Parental control on TV a) Parental communication
styles
b) Parental opinion
c) Co-viewing
d) Parental knowledge
(Carlson, Laczniak & Walsh
2001; Chan & McNeal 2003;
Fujioka & Austin 2002; Rose,
Bush & Kahle 1998)
1) I talk to my parents about RTV
content
2) My parents and I discuss about
RTV show selection
3) My parents and I watch RTV on
weekdays
4) My parents and I watch RTV
during weekends
5) My parents know what I watch
on RTV
6) My parents think some content
at RTV are really bad for
teenagers
7) My parents turn off channel
while unsuitable contents are
shown on RTV
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8) My parents prohibit me to
watch certain RTV shows
RTV Involvement a) Information search
b) Time spent, likings
c) Attention
d) Desire towards RTV
(Dolliver 2006; Higie &
Feick 1989; Pecheux &
Derbaix 2002; Perse 1998;
Yoon & Garma 2006)
1) I watch RTV
2) I pay close attention when I
watch RTV
3) I read about RTV in news
papers
4) I regularly vote to RTV (e.g.,
SMS, Phone)
5) I would attend a public
appearance if my favorite RTV
character from the show were
there
6) I imagine how I would act in a
similar situation shown on RTV
7) I watch other programs that
include contestants from the RTV
show
8) I wish I could be on RTV
shows
9) RTV is just like real life
10) I would like to participate in
RTV if I like it.
11) RTV provides me a lot of
information
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Chapter 4 Research Methodology
4.1 Introduction
In the previous chapter an extensive review of the literature involving the parent and
immediate disciplines of consumer socialisation as well as the focus topic of this
research, role of reality TV (RTV) as a consumer socialisation agent of teenagers, and
some other relevant topics has been conducted. This has helped to establish the
importance of the research objectives for this study and led to the development of
specific hypotheses. This chapter will describe and justify the methodology selected to
collect and analyse the data to address the research objectives and test the underlying
hypotheses. In this research both qualitative and quantitative methods were used.
Qualitative research was conducted to help refine the constructs and respective
measurement variables that have been developed based on the literature review, and
quantitative methods to test the constructs. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM)
technique was used to test the constructs and confirm the model of consumer
socialisation of teenagers in a developing country by RTV.
The methodological objective of this research was to identify how TV Vehicle, RTV as
a consumer socialisation agent, influence the teenagers’ consumer socialisation.
Further, the objective was to assess the effects of socio-structural variables like; social
class differences and gender differences of teenagers on the consumer socialisation.
Parental control and peers group influences on the role of RTV as a consumer
socialisation agent also were examined.
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4.2 Justification of the Methodology - Quantity or Quality
The metaphor of the ‘paradigm wars’ described by Gage (1989) is undoubtedly
overdrawn, as ‘wars’ paint a picture of confrontation. In building and testing new
theories, paradigm differences can be resolved through the emergence of a new
paradigm, more informed and sophisticated than any existing one. A paradigm is a basic
set of beliefs that guide action (Guba 1990, p.17). It represents a worldview that defines,
for its holder, the nature of the ‘world’, the individual's place in it, and the range of
possible relationships to that world and its parts. A paradigm encompasses three
elements: ontology, epistemology, and methodology. a) ontology (ontology raises basic
questions about the nature of reality), b) epistemology (epistemology asks, how do we
know the world? What is the relationship between the inquirer and the known?), and c)
methodology (methodology focuses on how we gain knowledge about the world).
Questions of methods are secondary to questions of paradigm, not only choices of
method but in ontologically and epistemologically fundamental ways (Guba & Lincoln
1994). Guba and Lincoln (1994) identified four competing paradigms in informing and
guiding inquiry: positivism, postpositivism, critical theory, and constructivism.
Undoubtadely, the positivist and postpositivist paradigms provide the backdrop against
which other paradigms operate.
Conventional positivist social science applies four criteria to disciplined inquiry:
internal validity, the degree to which findings correctly map the phenomenon in
question; external validity, the degree to which findings can be generalised to other
settings similar to the one in which the study occurred; reliability, the extent to which
findings can be replicated, or reproduced by another inquirer, and objectivity, the extent
to which findings are free from bias. Postpositivism represents efforts of the past few
decades to respond in a limited way to the most problematic criticisms of positivism.
The positivist and postpositivist views have recently come under considerable attack
(Guba & Lincoln 1994), supporting arguments that these paradigms are unable to deal
adequately with the issues surrounding the etic, emic, nomothetic, and idiographic
dimensions of inquiry. Too many local (emic), case-based (idiographic) meanings are
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excluded by the generalising (etic) nomothetic (Denzin & Lincoln 1994), positivist
position. At the same time, the nomothetic, etic approaches fail to address satisfactorily
the theory-and value-laden nature of facts, the interactive nature of inquiry, and the fact
that the same set of ‘facts’ can support more than one theory.
Constructivism (Guba & Lincoln 1994) or interpretivism (Perry 1995; Schwandt 1994),
adopts relativist ontology, a transactional epistemology, and a hermeneutic, dialectical
methodology. The inquiry aims of this paradigm are oriented to the production of
reconstructed understandings, wherein the traditional positivist criteria of internal and
external validity are replaced by the terms trustworthiness, and authenticity. Proponents
of positivism and postpositivism still dominate the scene. But, over the past decade, it
has become more and more possible for proponents of critical theory and constructivism
to achieve acceptance with the growing acceptability of ‘qualitative’ dissertations.
Method is context specific. From historical perspective, there has been heavy emphasis
on quantification in science. Scientific maturity is commonly believed to emerge as the
degree of quantification found within a given field increases. This view of science
focuses on efforts to verify (positivism) or falsify (postpositivism) a priori hypotheses,
most usefully stated as mathematical (quantitative) propositions or propositions that can
easily converted into precise mathematical formulas expressing functional relationships.
There exists a widespread conviction that only quantitative data are ultimately valid, or
of high quality (Schreast 1992).
The intraparadigm problems offer a weighty challenge to conventional methodology,
but could be eliminated, or at least ameliorated, by greater use of qualitative data.
However, the findings of qualitative research are misused when they are regarded as
conclusive and are used to make generalisation to the population of interest (Colwell
1990; Gabriel 1990). It is sound research principle to view qualitative and quantitative
research as complementary, rather than in competition with each other (Burrell &
Morgan 1979; Hunt 1991).
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Seldom is enough known about a marketing problem or situation for the researcher to
be able to proceed directly to the design of a structured study yielding representative
and quantifiable results. As has been stated in the literature review in the previous
chapter, most of the researches on consumer socialisation of teenagers have been
conducted in the developed countries that discourage the use of existing constructs and
their measurement variables for the purpose of this research. While some measurement
items and constructs have been identified through the literature review, reported in the
previous chapter, it has also been established that these constructs and their
measurement items are not directly applicable to a developing country without some
refinement. Consequently, it is important to become mindful about complexity of
research problem on hand and identify likely methodological problems.
Qualitative method was primarily used to refine the constructs and their multi-item
measurement scales that may be adapted to a developing country. The combination of
multiple methods, empirical materials, perspectives, and observers in a single study is
best understood, then, as a strategy that adds rigour, breadth, and depth to any
investigation (Flick 1992). “Because different ‘lenses’ or perspectives result from the
use of different methods, often more than one method may be used within a project so
the researcher can gain a more holistic view of the setting” (Morse 1994, p. 224).
“Increasingly, quantitative researchers seem dissatisfied with purely quantified results
and are turning to supplementary qualitative analyses, while qualitative researchers
have become less defensive about their modes of analysis and more open to working
with quantitative researchers on research projects. Sometimes, they combine
quantitative methods with their qualitative ones” (Strauss & Corbin 1994, p.277-78).
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4.3 Research Procedure
4.3.1 Qualitative
Qualitative research is used in many separate disciplines. It does not belong to a single
discipline. Nor does qualitative research have a distinct set of methods that are entirely
its own. Qualitative research is inherently multi-method in focus (Brewer & Hunter
1989).
Initially this research involved qualitative research to understand the perspectives of
consumer socialisation of teenagers in a developing country. So far, significant
researches (Shoham & Dalakas 2003; Moschis & Moore 1979; Vakratsas & Ambler
1999) have been conducted particularly in the developed countries to understand
consumer socialisation of teenagers. Unfortunately, the applicability of their findings is
unknown in a developing country like Bangladesh. This eliminates the direct
application of existing constructs for the purpose of this research. In the previous
chapter of this thesis; research problem, objectives, constructs and some measurement
variables were identified from existing literature, based on previous consumer
socialisation researches in developed countries. These needed further refinement to
make them appropriate for a developing country. Also, exploratory research is used
when researchers must define the problem more precisely; identify relevant course of
action, and gain additional insights before an approach can be developed (Malhotra
2003; Tufte & Halling 2002).
A variety of qualitative methods can be used for exploratory purposes. These methods
are less structured and more intensive than standardised questionnaire based interviews,
and result in context specific information, which is directly relevant to attitudes, rather
than remote from actual behaviour (Johansson & Nonaka 1987). In this research, a
focus group interview (FGI) method was used for exploratory purposes.
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4.3.1.1 Sampling for Qualitative Research
A good informant is one who has the knowledge and experience the researcher requires,
has the ability to reflect, is articulate, has the time to be interviewed, and is willing to
participate in the study (Morse, 1986, 1991). Patton (1990) provides guidelines for
sampling and suggests that the logic and power behind purposeful selection of
informants is that the sample should be information rich. Patton (1990) suggested three
types of sampling: a) extreme or deviant case sampling is used to select participants
who exemplify characteristics of interest, b) intensity sampling has less emphasis on
extremes but emphasises selection of participants who are authorities about a particular
experience, and c) maximum variety sampling is the process of deliberately selecting a
heterogeneous sample and observing commonalities in their experiences. For this
research intensity sampling and maximum variety sampling were used with the view to
finding out shared patterns of commonalities among the participants experiences
regarding RTV involvement and its effects on their consumer socialisation. To ensure
this, it was considered that all the 20 FGI participants have concepts and ideas about as
well as involvement with RTV. During the participant selection process teenagers’ who
watch RTV for at least for an hour in a week were considered. Where as, maximum
variety sampling was ensured by choosing participants from two different social classes
(e.g., middle, lower), different age groups within the broad category of teenagers, and
gender (e.g., boys, girls).
4.3.1.2 The Focus Group Interviews (FGI)
The interview is the favourite methodological tool of the qualitative researcher.
Interviewing has a wide variety of forms and a multiplicity of uses. In this research,
FGIs were conducted. Focus group is an interview technique that is conducted in an
unstructured and natural manner by a trained moderator among a small group of
respondents (Fontana & Frey 1994). The main purpose of focus groups is to gain
insights by listening to a group of people from the appropriate respondents about issues
of interest to the researchers. “Unstructured interviewing provides a greater breadth than
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the other types, given it’s qualitative nature” (Fontana & Frey 1994, p. 365).
Unstructured interviewing techniques have been reported extensively in the literature
(Lofland & Lofland 1984).
Malinowski (1989) captures the differences between structured and unstructured
interviewing. The former aims at capturing precise data of a code-able nature in order to
explain behaviour within pre-established categories, whereas the latter is used in an
attempt to understand the complex behaviour of members of society without imposing
any prior categorisation that may limit the field of inquiry.
In this research, to gain further insight and understanding on the research problem, two
separate FGIs involving 10 teenagers in each were conducted among Bangladeshi
teenagers representing urban middle and lower social classes of Dhaka city (capital of
Bangladesh). These FGIs were conducted in the respective campuses of two different
schools e.g., with lower social class teenagers in Nilkhet School and middle social class
in Udayan School, both based in Dhaka. A flyer for volunteers (Appendix 2) was
circulated among the potential participants and consent from each participant was taken
using a consent form (Appendix 4). During the time of respondent selection,
participants from 13-19 years representing class 5 to 11 were considered and both the
focus groups had equal representation of the gender. The first focus group was
conducted at Nilkhet School on 16th July 2009 between 12:00 noon to 3:00 pm at the
school common room and the second focus group was conducted at Udayan School on
23rd July between 12:00 to 3:00 pm at the school common room. A UWS Research
Committee approved research protocol providing background information about the
research (Appendix 3) was distributed among the participant at the beginning of the
FGIs. During these FGI sessions participants were encouraged to describe events; draw
linkages, and give explanations about their consumer socialisation by their involvement
in RTV. Particularly, respondents were asked to name different RTV shows and their
features. Teenagers’ involvements with different RTV shows also were addressed. Most
importantly, how teenagers connect different ideas, clues and information from RTV for
getting knowledge about product, recalling and usages brands were the focus of
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discussion. Similarly, how RTV celebrities and various features of RTV affect
teenagers’ consumption related attitude and values were explored.
Both the FGIs were moderated by this researcher. During conducting the FGIs; a pre-
developed discussion guideline (Appendix 5) was used. As the study progressed,
insights of the researcher about consumer socialisation of teenagers increased, making
the process exciting as ‘what is going on’ finally become clearer and more obvious.
Both the FGI’s were audio recorded with prior approval from each participant and
following the ethics protocol (a discussion of ethical issues follows in section 4.4).
Audio recording was used as a method of recording the discussion because of the
following advantages of its use:
1. Provides a completely accurate record of what each respondent said.
2. Frees the interviewer to listen and respond more rapidly.
3. Allows better voice modulation and hence better development of rapport between
interviewer and interviewee.
Further, hand written notes were taken to record statements and non-verbal gestures
e.g., nodding to indicate agreement or disagreement of others participants’ comments
regarding RTV relating to consumer socialisation. These FGIs were conducted in local
language (Bengali) which is also this researcher’s native language. So, no difficulties
were faced while transcribing the interview sessions from the audio tapes.
The recorded information from the FGIs were coded and classified for qualitative
analysis by the researcher. Participant boys were identified as ‘B’ and girls as ‘G’ from
both the social groups and then were given numeric identifiers. Each participant’s
comments were then coded with reference to their individual identifier number (Table
5.3).
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Findings of these FGIs were quite important to refine and further develop the constructs
and identified variables making them more relevant for Bangladesh. This also helped to
properly identify the data that were needed to address the research problem, objectives,
and hypotheses.
4.3.1.3 Ensuring Rigour
There are numerous methods of ensuring rigour in qualitative work. The major methods
for ensuring rigour are intricately linked with issues of reliability and validity. In
qualitative research the main methods to ensure this are criteria of adequacy and
appropriateness of data and verification of data with informants (Morse 1994).
In this study criteria of adequacy and appropriateness were established. In qualitative
research, adequacy refers to the amount of data collected, rather than to the number of
subjects, as in quantitative research. Adequacy is attained in this research by ensuring
that sufficient data have been collected and there is saturation as well as variations are
both accounted for and understood. Appropriateness refers to selection of information
according to the theoretical needs of the study (Morse 1994). In this research FGI
samples were purposefully drawn from only those teenagers who are experienced RTV
viewers, who watch RTV at least one hour a week and have involvement in it.
As a further test of validity, the outcomes of the discussions as they were becoming
evident were presented to the participants for discussion and review. Often informants
are able to confirm immediately the accuracy and validity of the study, and sometimes,
offer additional information (Glaser 1978). In both the FGI sessions of this research, the
outcomes of the discussions on consumer socialisation by RTV were presented to the
participants towards the end of the sessions with the help of a white board. Participants
were then asked to make comments on addressed variables related to RTV involvement
and its affects on consumer socialisation. Participants’ comments on different variables
and how they are related with other variables were audio taped as well as noted.
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4.3.1.4 Data Management and Analysis
Application of data management methods during the study is essential for the success of
the study. In this research, audio tapes and hand notes were transcribed, corrected and
edited before analysis. Transcripts and notes must be easily retrieved, easily cross-
referenced, and easily separated from and linked with their original sources.
The data was analysed using content analysis method (Weber 1990). This method is
often theory driven e.g., theory determines what to look for (Weber 1990). In this
research the conceptual model, its constructs and variables developed through the
literature review were the basis for what to look for in the FGI data. Looking at the
transcripts the themes and how these themes relate to each other were identified
analysing each sentence spoken by the participants. The themes were systematically
assigned numeric codes. What respondents talk about most were noted.
How data are stored and retrieved is the heart of data management. In this research,
coding of the data gathered at the qualitative stage was done immediately after each
FGI, importance of which has been emphasised by Strauss (1987). Werner and
Schoepfle (1987) noted that a system needs to be designed prior to actual data
collection, and stressed the importance of a clear indexing system. In this research, the
two groups were coded as 1 (lower social class) and 2 (middle social class). Participant
boys were coded as B and girls as G followed by numerical number to identify each of
them. So, record of discussions at FGI sessions can be traced later on to relevant
participants for reporting purposes.
Miles and Huberman's (1994) definition of data analysis contains three linked sub
processes: data reduction, data display, and conclusion/verification. With data
reduction, the potential universe of data is reduced in an anticipated way on the basis of
research objectives and instruments (Miles & Hubermans 1994). In this research, once
actual field notes, FGI tapes became available, data summaries, coding, finding themes,
clustering, and writing summaries were done manually for selection of data that was
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relevant to the conceptual model and its constructs earlier developed through literature
review. Data display, defined as an organised, compressed assembly of information that
permits conclusion drawing, was the second part of analysis. This was done by
summarising the findings (Fischer & Wertz 1975) and developing matrices with text
(Miles & Huberman 1994) with each cell representing a construct and the cell contents
their respective variables.
Figure 4.1 Qualitative Data Analysis Process (Source: Miles & Huberman 1994)
Conclusion drawing and verification involve the researcher in interpretation: drawing
meaning from display data. The tactics used in this research, ranged from the use of
comparison/contrast, noting of patterns and themes, clustering and checking results with
respondents (Miles & Huberman 1994).
4.3.2 Need for Quantitative Research
In this research, qualitative method has been used to refine the measurement variables
that were earlier identified through literature review making them relevant to a
developing country. The limitations of the qualitative methods are: (1) The results are
not necessarily representative of what would be found in the population, and hence are
not project able, and (2) There is typically ambiguity in the results (Aakar & Day 1990).
Data collection
Data display
Data reduction
Conclusions drawing/ verification
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In view of these shortcomings as well as to test and validate the conceptual model and
its constructs developed through literature review quantitative method was used.
4.3.3 Scale Development and Confirmatory Factor Analysis
As recommended by Churchill Jr. (1979), a widely used process for developing
measurement scales in Marketing involves the following steps:
1) Defining theoretical constructs (Austin, Plouffe & Peters 2005)
2) Generating a list of items from literature and/or qualitative research that relate to
these constructs (Attewell, Suazo-Garcia & Battle 2003; Austin, Plouffe &
Peters 2005) and
3) Purifying these measures using exploratory factor analysis (Sweeney & Soutar
2001) and coefficient alpha (Chan & Prendergast 2007).
In this research all of the above steps were followed and the third step was
supplemented with confirmatory factor analysis (Bristol & Mangleburg 2005b; Shrum,
Burroughs & Gainesville 2005)
The use of multi-item scales to measure a construct is considered superior to single item
scales as it increases reliability and decreases measurement error (Churchill Jr.1979).
These sets of items are generally reflective in that they all measure the same theoretical
construct. Coefficient alpha was used to measure the reliability (Malhotra & Peterson
2006) of the scale at exploratory factor analysis (EFA) stage. Exploratory factor
analysis was considered a test of dimensionality, with the aim to produce a set of items
that reflect a single underlying factor or construct. Purifying the set of indicators is an
iterative process whereby indicators with low factor loading are dropped (Conway &
Huffcutt 2003; Garver & Mentzer 1999; Hair et al. 1998).
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This traditional approach has since been expanded with the confirmatory factor
analysis. Confirmatory factor analysis using AMOS was carried out to give a truer
estimation of reliability and formally test the uni-dimensionality of a scale (Hoyle
1995). It is therefore considered a more rigorous scale development procedure that was
followed.
4.3.4 Constructs, Domains and Scale Items
In this research, six constructs are addressed from current literature to develop a model
of consumer socialisation by RTV. Furthermore, domains and scale items relating to
respective constructs also been addressed to develop and test the above mention model.
These constructs including the domains and scale items are adopted from the current
literature of consumer socialisation by media and later on refined through exploratory
research. These domains and measurement scales items of respective constructs are
mentioned in the following sections.
4.3.4.1 RTV Involvement
In this research impact of RTV on consumer socialisation of teenagers has been
measured by teenagers’ involvement in it.
Zaichkowsky (1985) defined involvement as “a person’s perceived relevance to the
object based on inherent needs, values, and interest.” This definition can be applied to
RTV studies. Literature also indicate that a person can be involved with advertisements
(Krugman 1962), and RTV (Yoon & Garma 2006). In media research, involvement
pertains to media users’ relationships with message conveyed by media or with media
(Levy & Windahl 1984), media personalities (Rubin & Perse 1987), or other media
users (Rubin & Step 1997). Rubin and Perse (1987) conceptualised media involvement
as “cognitive, affective, and behavioural perceptions during and because of exposure”
(p. 247). To understand involvement, one needs to understand audience and role of
involvement between media motive and media effects (Perse 1998).
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Various researchers have agreed and proposed different domain of scale items to
measure the involvement with media. Liking (e.g., watching RTV, reading about RTV)
is one of the common domains to measure the involvement with RTV (Pecheux &
Derbaix 2002; Yoon & Garma 2006). Yoon and Garma (2006) added that involvement
with RTV is also measured by how much time audience spend to watch different shows
relating to RTV celebrities. Furthermore, amount of attention given to RTV is
considered as a measurement domain of RTV involvement (Perse 1998; Yoon & Garma
2006). Interestingly, audience desire to attend RTV shows also indicates their
involvement with it (Dolliver 2006). At the qualitative stage of this research, teenagers
from both the groups including boys and girls have shown desire to watch RTV shows
on web, though none of them have regular access of it. On the contrary, involvement
with RTV is not only addressed as a source of fun and fantasy but also as a source of
information (Higie & Feick 1989). On the basis of above discussion following Table 4.1
shows the domains of scale items to measure RTV involvement.
Table 4.1 Domain of Scale Items of RTV Involvement
Construct Domain of Scale Items
RTV involvement Time spent, Likings, Attention, Desire
towards RTV (Dolliver 2006; Higie &
Feick 1989; Pecheux & Derbaix 2002;
Perse 1998; Yoon & Garma 2006)
4.3.4.2 Consumption Related Cognition
Cognition is defined as “knowledge that is acquired by a combination of direct
experience and information from various sources” (Schiffman et al. 2005, p. 617).
Wagner (2008) has indicated cognition as the mental processes involved in gaining
knowledge and comprehension; including thinking, knowing, remembering, judging,
and problem solving. So, consumption related cognition can be conceptualised as the
mental processes involved in gaining knowledge and comprehension; including
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thinking, knowing, remembering, judging, problem solving and skill development
regarding products and brands consumption (Bartlett, Griffiths & Badian 2008; Bush,
Martin & Bush 2004; Moschis & Moore 1978).
In the current literature, researchers have agreed and proposed different domain of scale
items to measure consumption related cognition. Product knowledge (e.g., information
about product, recognising product, brands) is considered as one of the vital domains to
measure consumption related cognition (Bartlett, Griffiths & Badian 2008; Zuckerman,
Ziegler & Stevenson 1978). Bartlett, Griffiths and Badian (2008) also added that
developing awareness about products and brands are also considered as product
knowledge that measure consumption related cognition. At the focus groups discussions
sessions, teenagers addressed very strongly that advertisement shown in RTV also give
them products and brands ideas. Furthermore, consumer learning capacity is an
important measurement scale of product knowledge (Ward & Wackman 1974).
Zuckerman, Ziegler and Stevenson (1978) also added that recognising and recalling
capacity is vital domains to measure consumption related cognition. Consumer’s
purchasing intention is also viewed as domain of measurement variables in this regard
(Bush, Martin & Bush 2004). Teenagers’ also responded towards RTV sponsoring
brands were quite positively that reflecting teenagers’ purchasing intentions found from
focus groups discussions. Consumers’ role perception (e.g., understanding instruction,
developing creativities) considered as a domain to measure consumption related
cognition (Moschis & Moore 1978). RTV shows also develop teenagers’ creativity
regarding their fashion and style consciousness that are addressed from the focus groups
discussions sessions. On the basis of above discussion following Table 4.2 shows the
domains of scale items to measure consumption related cognition.
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Table 4.2 Domain of Scale Items of Consumption Related Cognition
Construct Domain of Scale Items
Cognition (Consumption related
cognition)
Product knowledge, Consumer role
perception, Purchasing intentions,
(Bartlett, Griffiths & Badian 2008; Bush,
Martin & Bush 2004; Moschis & Moore
1978)
4.3.4.3 Consumption Related Attitude
Attitude is defined as a “psychological tendency that is expressed by evaluating a
particular entity with some degree of favour or disfavour” (Eagly & Chaiken 2007, p.1).
Solomon (2004) referred attitude as lasting general evaluation of people (including one
self), objects or issues. Eagly and Chaiken (2007, p.5) also added as attitude “an
evaluative judgment or affective or evaluative response”. Current definitions of attitude
posses some key features like evaluation, attitude object, and tendency (Eagly &
Chaiken 2007). Overall, consumption related attitude can be conceptualised as an
enduring combination of motivational, emotional, perceptual and cognitive process with
respect to imitation, fashion, inspiration and product placement (Hirschman &
Thompson 1997; Lawrie 2006; Russell, Norman & Heckler 2004; Schmoll et al. 2006).
Existing literature shows that perception towards fashion (e.g., fashion tips from RTV,
liking fashion) is a domain to measure consumption related attitude (Russell, Norman &
Heckler 2004). Further, imitation of RTV celebrities’ behaviour also is a domain of
consumption related attitude development (Russell, Norman & Heckler 2004). Lawrie
et al. (2006) added that audience attitude towards TV celebrities body image can be
considered as a domain for consumption related attitude measurement. Harrison and
Cantor (1997) agreed with the mentioned measurement domain and pointed that
audience likings towards TV celebrities’ attractive figure also indicate measuring
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consumption related attitude. Further, emotional attachment towards RTV celebrities
also considered while measuring consumption related attitude (Hirschman & Thompson
1997). Apart from that emotional attachment with RTV celebrities, perception towards
the product placement (e.g., perception towards unethical product showing) are also
noted to measure consumption related attitude (Schmoll et al. 2006). In this research,
teenagers from both focus groups have mentioned that they prefer multinational brands
to buy if is shown by RTV. On the basis of above discussion following Table 4.3 shows
the domains of scale items to measure consumption related attitude.
Table 4.3 Domain of Scale Items of Consumption Related Attitude
Construct Domain of Scale Items
Attitude (Consumption related attitude) Imitation, Inspiration from media
personalities, Attitude towards product
placement (Hirschman & Thompson 1997;
Lawrie 2006; Russell, Norman & Heckler
2004; Schmoll et al. 2006).
4.3.4.4 Consumption Related Values
Schiffman et al. (2005, p. 637) noted values as “relatively enduring beliefs that serve as
guides for what is considered ‘appropriate’ behaviour and are widely accepted by the
members of the society”. Values are widely held beliefs about what is acceptable and/or
desirable (Neal, Quaster & Hakins 2004). So, consumption related values can be
conceptualised as shared beliefs among group members as to what behaviours are
desirable or undesirable towards products, prohibited product consumption, materialism
and anti-social behaviour.
In the extant literatures, sense of materialism (e.g., desire towards best things, newest
things) has been found as one of the most common domains to measure consumption
related values (Chan 2003). Kamineni (2005) also referred to materialism as a crucial
domain of measuring consumption related values which are strongly influenced by
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media. Sense of materialism also triggers desire towards consuming particular products.
Various researchers (Ghani 2005; Hastings & Aitken 1995) considered desire towards
particular product consumption as a domain to measure consumption related values as
well. Hastings and Aitkens (1995) also supported this domain by adding consumption
fantasy to measure consumption related values which are highly influenced by RTV. On
the contrary, consumption related values are also measured by belief towards prohibited
product consumption (e.g., beliefs towards drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes)
(Wyllie, Zhang & Casswell 1998). On the basis of above discussion following Table 4.4
shows the domains of scale items to measure consumption related values.
Table 4.4 Domain of Scale Items of Consumption Related Values
Construct Domain of Scale Items
Values (Consumption related values) Desire towards products, Prohibited
product consumption, Materialism (Chan
2003; Ghani 2005; Wyllie, Zhang &
Casswell 1998)
4.3.4.5 Parental Control
These days’ teenaged children have involvement with varieties of media but still parents
play significant role to influence teenagers’ media consumption habit that ultimately
affects their consumer socialisation. Particularly, parental control on teenagers’ media
usage can be defined from the contexts of parental communication styles, parental
opinion, co-viewing, parental knowledge (Carlson, Laczniak & Walsh 2001; Chan &
McNeal 2003; Fujioka & Austin 2002; Rose, Bush & Kahle 1998). Generally, parental
control can be conceptualised as parental communication pattern, mediation style,
influence and instruction capacity to their children (Bakir, Rose & Soham 2005; Barkin
et al. 2006; Cardoza 2002; Fuzioka & Austin 2002).
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Various researchers have identified different domains of scale items to measure parental
control on teenagers’ media, particularly TV involvement. Parental knowledge (e.g.,
knowledge about RTV shows, perception about content) about TV is most commonly
identified domain to measure parental control on teenagers’ TV usage (Carlson,
Lacznaik & Walsh 2001; Cardoza 2002). Rose, Bush and Kahle (1998) also identified
parental knowledge as a vital domain to measure parental control on RTV involvement
of teenagers. Furthermore, parental communication pattern is considered as a crucial
measurement domain which is agreed by various researchers (Carlson, Lacznaik &
Walsh 2001). Fujioka and Austin (2002) also mentioned that communication pattern
between teenagers’ and their parents could be expressed through discussion about TV
shows and selection process of TV shows. Furthermore, researchers have pointed out
that parental opinion regarding RTV show selection and they putting restriction on their
children watching RTV also are vital issues in this regard (Carlson, Lacznaik & Walsh
2001). Interestingly, co-viewing between parents and teenaged children are widely
accepted by the researchers to measure parental control on teenagers’ RTV usages
behaviour (Chan & McNeal 2003). On the basis of above discussion following Table
4.5 shows the domains of scale items to measure parental control on RTV involvement.
Table 4.5 Domain of Scale Items of Parental Control on TV
Construct Domain of Scale Items
Parental control on TV
Parental communication styles, Parental
opinion, Co-viewing, Parental knowledge.
(Carlson, Laczniak & Walsh 2001; Chan
& McNeal 2003; Fujioka & Austin 2002;
Rose, Bush & Kahle 1998).
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4.3.4.6 Peer Group Influence
Various researchers indicated that peer groups particularly friend play an important role
on teenagers’ media usages and involvement that ultimately affects their consumer
socialisation (Lueg & Finney 2007). It is shown in various consumer socialisation
researches that teenagers’ media usage behaviour is highly influenced by their peers
group influences (Lueg & Finney 2007, Moschis & Moore 1979). However, peer group
influences can be defined form the perspectives of reinforcement, modelling, extrinsic
motivation, peer co-viewing, peers mediation (Edward & Grantham 2009; Lueg &
Finney 2007; Nathanson 2001)
According to current literatures, peers group reinforcement (e.g., taking advice from
friend to use media) regarding media has been most commonly identified domain to
measure peer group influences (Lueg & Finney 2007). Edward and Grantham (2009)
also agreed with the domain of peer group reinforcement along with teenagers’ extrinsic
motivation by their peer group to use any media. Most commonly, teenagers
participated in the focus groups discussions regularly talk and discuss about RTV shows
with their friends. Teenagers’ also consider their peer group perception towards TV
shows (e.g., entertaining, useful) influence their involvement with RTV (Nathanson
2001). Overall, peer group play a mediating role (e.g., watching TV shows together,
discussing about TV shows) in teenagers’ mind regarding involvement with media and
particularly RTV (Nathanson 2001). On the basis of above discussion Table 4.6 shows
the domain of scale items to measure peer group influences on RTV involvement.
Table 4.6 Domain of Scale Items of Peers Group Influences
Construct Domain of Scale items
Peer group influences Reinforcement, Extrinsic motivation, Peer
co-viewing, Peers mediation (Edward &
Grantham 2009; Lueg & Finney 2007;
Nathanson 2001)
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4.3.4.7 List of Constructs, Domains and Scale Items
So far, researches on consumer socialisation in the context of RTV have been rarely
examined (Yoon & Garma 2006). Therefore, scale items in this research have been
adapted mostly from current research findings on consumer socialisation by media in
general. The following table (4.7) shows the constructs, domains and scale items that
are adapted from the current literature:
Table 4.7 List of Constructs, Domain and Scale Items
Constructs Domains Scale Items Cognition
(Consumption related cognition)
a) Product knowledge
b) Consumer role perception
c) Purchasing intentions
d) Information processing
e) recalling capacity
f) consumption related skills
(Bartlett, Griffiths & Badian
2008; Bush, Martin & Bush
2004; Moschis & Moore
1978; Zuckerman, Ziegler &
Stevenson 1978; Ward &
Wackman 1974)
1) RTV make me aware about
particular brands
2) I understand product usage
instruction from RTV
3) RTV helps me to recall about
certain products
4) RTV helps me to recognise
particular products and brands
5) RTV helps me to decide what
brands to buy
6) RTV is a good way to learn
about what products/bands are
available in market
7) The opinion of my favorite RTV
celebrities influence me to say
positive things about products or
brands to other people
8 ) RTV helps me to do value
analysis (compare price and benefit
of brands) before buying
Attitude (Consumption related attitude)
a) Fashion
b) Imitation
c)Inspiration from media
personalities
d) Attitude towards product
1) I get fashion tips from RTV
2) I like the product shown on RTV
3) I often buy clothing styles that I
have seen in RTV
4) My favorite RTV celebrities
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placement
(Hirschman & Thompson
1997 Lawrie 2006; Russell,
Norman & Heckler 2004;
Schmoll et al. 2006).
make me fashion conscious
5) I want to get good figure like
RTV celebrities (e.g. slimmer,
muscular)
6) Thin models in RTV creates my
interest (e.g., plastic surgery, diet
habit, figure shape)
7) I see my favorite RTV celebrity
as my idol
8) I would like to have lunch with
my favorite RTV celebrity
9) I feel very strongly about
banning unethical products (e.g.,
tobacco, beer, alcohol) shown in
RTV
Values (Consumption related values)
a) Desire towards products
b) Prohibited product
consumption
c) Materialism
d) Antisocial behaviour
(Chan 2003; Ghani 2005;
Gruber & Thau 2003; Wyllie,
Zhang & Casswell 1998)
1) I like to own the newest things
shown on RTV
2) I like to own the best things
shown on RTV
3) It is better to have more
allowance from parents to buy the
brand shown on RTV
4) I often request my parents to get
the products shown on RTV
5) I often request my parents to get
the products shown on
advertisements in RTV shows
6) Some RTV shows promote use
of prohibited items (e.g., alcohol,
cigarette) among teenagers
7) Consumption of prohibited items
(e.g., alcohol, cigarette) makes life
more fun and exciting
8) I like the sexually appealing
outfit worn by RTV participants
and judges
Peers group influences a) Reinforcement 1) My friends and I talk about
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b) Modelling
c) Extrinsic motivation
d) Peer co-viewing
e) Peers mediation
(Edward & Grantham 2009;
Lueg & Finney 2007;
Nathanson 2001)
content of RTV shows (e.g.,
entertainment, sex, information)
2) My friends and I watch often
RTV together
3) My friends think the content of
RTV shows can provide useful
information
4) My friends think content of RTV
are entertaining
5) My peers encourage me to send
SMS to RTV
6) My peers’ opinions on RTV
shows are important to me
7) My friends and I participate
together live on the RTV shows
Parental control on TV a) Parental communication
styles
b) Parental opinion
c) Co-viewing
d) Parental knowledge
(Carlson, Laczniak & Walsh
2001; Chan & McNeal 2003;
Fujioka & Austin 2002; Rose,
Bush & Kahle 1998)
1) I talk to my parents about RTV
content
2) My parents and I discuss about
RTV show selection
3) My parents and I watch RTV on
weekdays
4) My parents and I watch RTV
during weekends
5) My parents know what I watch
on RTV
6) My parents think some content
at RTV are really bad for teenagers
7) My parents turn off channel
while unsuitable contents are
shown on RTV
8) My parents prohibit me to watch
certain RTV shows
RTV Involvement a) Information search
b) Time spent, likings
c) Attention
d) Desire towards RTV
(Dolliver 2006; Higie & Feick
1) I watch RTV
2) I pay close attention when I
watch RTV
3) I read about RTV in news papers
4) I regularly vote to RTV (e.g.,
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1989; Pecheux & Derbaix
2002; Perse 1998; Yoon &
Garma 2006)
SMS, Phone)
5) I would attend a public
appearance if my favorite RTV
character from the show were there
6) I imagine how I would act in a
similar situation shown on RTV
7) I watch other programs that
include contestants from the RTV
show
8) I wish I could be on RTV shows
9) RTV is just like real life
10) I would like to participate in
RTV if I like it.
11) RTV provides me a lot of
information
4.3.5 Scale Evaluation
A multi-item scale should be evaluated for accuracy and applicability (Greenleaf 1992).
This involves an assessment of reliability, validity, and generelisibility of the scale.
Reliability refers to the extent to which a scale produces consistent results if repeated
measurements are made (Perreault & Leigh 1989). In more formal terms, reliability is
the degree to which a set of two or more indicators shares in their measurement of a
construct. The indicators of highly reliable constructs are highly inter-correlated,
indicating that they are all measuring the same latent construct. As reliability decreases,
the indicators become less consistent and thus are poor indicators of the latent construct.
Approaches for assessing reliability include the test-retest, alternative forms, and
internal consistency methods. In this research the internal consistency method was used.
To assess the internal consistency reliability, a popular approach, coefficient alpha was
used, at the exploratory factor analysis stage. Coefficient Alpha “A measure of internal
consistency reliability, which is the average of all possible split-half coefficients
resulting from different splitting of the scale items” (Malhotra 2003, p. 282).
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Validity is the ability of a construct's indicators to measure accurately the concept under
study. Validity is measured to a great extent by the researcher, because the original
definition of the construct or concept is proposed by the researcher and must be
matched to the selected indicators or measures. The validity of a scale also may be
defined as the extent to which differences in observed scale scores reflect true
differences among objects on the characteristic being measured, rather than systematic
or random error (Malhotra 2003). Perfect validity requires that there be no measurement
error. Researchers may assess content validity, criterion validity, or construct validity.
Construct validity includes convergent, discriminant, and nomological validity. In this
research, scales were tested for convergent and discriminant validity. Convergent
validity is the extent to which the scales correlate positively with other measures of the
same construct. This was achieved as 1) the model receives a satisfactory level of fit,
and 2) the regression co-efficient (factor loadings) of all the indicators are statistically
significant, e.g., greater than twice its standard error (Anderson & Gerbing 1998; Dunn
et al. 1994). Where as, discriminant validity estimates the degree to which a measure
does not correlate or converge with other constructs from which it is supposed to be
different. This was achieved as the co-efficient alpha of all the constructs was above
.70. The value of average variance extracted for all constructs were very close to or
exceeding 0.50 also indicates discriminant validity. There were also no significant cross
loading of individual variables.
Validity does not guarantee reliability, and vice versa. A measure may be accurate
(valid) but not consistent (reliable). Also, it may be quite consistent but not accurate.
Thus validity and reliability are two separate but interrelated conditions.
Generalisability refers to the extent to which one can generalise from the observations
at hand to a universe of generalisations. Traditionally, reliability methods can be viewed
as single-facet generalisibility studies. A test-retest correlation is concerned with
whether scores obtained from a measurement scale are generalisable to the universe
scores across all times and places of possible measurement. Even if the test-retest
correlation is high, nothing can be said about the generalisability of the scale to other
universes.
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4.3.6 Questionnaire - the Research Instrument
The first step in questionnaire design was to specify the information or plan what to
measure. The answer for this question in this research has come from the extensive
literature review and focus group based qualitative research done earlier. Those two
steps helped to identify the constructs and variables to understand the role of RTV as
consumer socialisation agent of teenagers. Special care has been taken to translate the
desired question content into words that respondents clearly and easily understand.
Deciding on question wording is perhaps the most critical and difficult task in
developing a questionnaire. If a question is worded poorly, respondents may refuse to
answer it or answer it incorrectly. The first condition, known as item non-response, can
increase the complexity of data analysis (Omura 1983). The second condition leads to
response error. Unless the respondents and the researcher assign exactly the same
meaning to the question, the results will be seriously biased (Morgan 1990). To avoid
these problems, Malhotra (2003) recommends the importance of using ‘ordinary’ words
that have clear meanings, expressing statements both in positive and negative terms and
avoiding the inclusion of assumptions and estimates. In this research, a structured
survey instrument was developed to facilitate this. Pilot survey was then conducted
using the draft survey instrument among 20 Bangladeshi teenagers to establish content
validity of the survey instrument and focused to evaluate and determine the applicability
of questionnaire in Bangladesh. The questionnaire was tested; revised and than
finalised. Academic experts in the field were also consulted before finalising the
instrument. The final questionnaire was designed on the basis of the results of the pre-
test and the observations, comments, and recommendations of the academic experts.
The final instrument was developed in English, which was than translated to Bengali
(local language) and retranslated to English. The Bengali version was administered for
data gathering purposes. Mostly closed ended questions were used.
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4.3.7 Sample and Sample Size
Information about the characteristics of a population may be obtained by conducting
either a sample or a census. Budget and time limits, large population size, and small
variance in the characteristic of interest favour the use of a sample.
In this research both qualitative and quantitative data was gathered from Bangladesh, a
typical developing country. In Bangladesh, 23% of total population falls is the 10-19
age groups, which is the largest segment of the country’s population (Quraishi, Bhuiya
& Mohammad 2004). Rapid growth of media and teenagers’ involvement with various
media is also observed in Bangladesh, particularly in Dhaka (Nath 2006). Teenagers in
Dhaka city have high involvement with electronic media, TV (Nath 2006). This was the
primary reason why data for this research has been collected from the teenaged children
population representing urban middle and lower social classes of Dhaka city. Also, the
concentration of the middle class population of Bangladesh is mainly in urban areas
(Islam 2005).
Target population for the study was the urban teenagers (13-19 age groups) representing
both genders. However, due to non-availability of a sample frame of the research
population, use of simple random probability sampling was particularly difficult.
Instead a multi-stage stratified sampling method was used. Accordingly, the research
was conducted in the two different schools representing two social classes of Dhaka city
corporation (municipal) area, which has the largest concentration of urban population of
the country with many working class slum dwellers. A map showing all the suburbs and
slums within the city was collected from the corporation. From this map, the entire
middle social class suburbs as well as lower social class slums were identified and listed
(Appendix 14). From list of middle class suburbs one suburb and from the list of lower
social class slums one slum area were randomly selected through lottery. This was done
by putting the names of each of the suburbs in a separate piece of paper which were
then folded and put in a basket and one piece of paper drawn. Same process was
followed for the other group (slums). There was one school in the selected suburb and
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the slum, both of which were selected for the survey. Teenaged students from each of
the selected schools were further stratified into two genders. Using class lists, all
students from the 13-19 age groups representing academic classes 5 to 11 of the two
schools were identified. At Udayan school there were 360 such students and at Nilikhet
school there were 350 representing both genders. A total of 200 students were than
selected from each school through lottery using student identification numbers and
contacted in their respective classes. A total of 400 respondents were surveyed with
equal representation of each social class and genders.
Social class cannot be measured directly but indicators of social class status are
typically perceived by tangible factors (e.g., income, occupation, education) (Pope,
Brennan & Voges 2007). In this research, respondents’ social class was verified by
using composite variable technique (Pope, Brennan & Voges 2007). Historically, the
most widely used index is W. Lloyd Warner’s Index of status characteristics (ISC) is a
method of measuring social class that evaluates occupation, income, house, education
and location of home. The ISC is based on the following socio-economic indicators that
have been used to verify the respondents’ social status in this research:
• Occupation (lower class mostly blue collar, whereas middle class mostly white
collar)
• Income (lower class bellow national average, whereas middle class average and
above – current Bangladesh national average Taka).
• Education (lower social class mostly HSC and bellow, whereas middle social
class mostly above HSC).
• Dwelling area (lower social class from slums, whereas middle social class in
buildings).
Bangladesh is a developing country with a large population (152.6 million) and a
teenager population of 76.8 million (UNICEF 2005). Though, 45% of total population
live under the poverty level, urbanisation has been rapid and largely imbalanced with
concentration in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. According to World Bank
(2007), 25% of the population now lives in urban areas, while in 1960 the number was
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just 5%. Urbanisation has been skewed toward Dhaka, making it among the fastest
growing metropolitan cities in the world. To support this newly migrated family in the
urban city, child labour is observed mostly in lower social classes. This segment of the
urban population is mainly concentrated in the slum areas of Dhaka. There is
government and NGO (non-government agency) run schools in Dhaka city for these
children. Nilkhet School, one of the two schools from which respondents with lower
social class background were selected is one such school. Whereas, the other school
selected, Udayan School which is centrally located caters for teenagers of middle social
class background.
4.3.8 Administration of Questionnaire
In line with the research objectives of this study, the translated (Bengali version)
questionnaires (Appendix 13) were self-administered by the teenagers from the two
selected schools in presence of this researcher, two research assistants and the
respective class teachers (no incentives were offered to students or teachers). Prior
permission from the two school principals (Appendix 7) were taken before
administering the questionnaires. Teenaged students from seven classes who were
selected through lottery (refer to section 4.3.7) and agreed to participate were then
brought together in their respective schools auditoriums to complete the survey at the
same time. The survey was conducted during the schools hours to maximise the
response rate. Discussion sessions with the respondents and school teachers on the
purpose and background of the research were also conducted in each of the seven
classes on the day prior to the survey, along with a copy of the translated questionnaire.
Any questions and concerns that the participants raised during these information
sessions were addressed and their consent taken using the participant consent form
(Appendix 4).
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4.3.9 Data Preparation
In total 400 questionnaires were completed by the respondents from the two schools.
Data preparation began with a preliminary check of all questionnaires, followed by
more thorough checking of any missing values by this researcher with the help of two
research assistants. Editing consisted of screening questionnaires to identify illegible,
incomplete, inconsistent, or ambiguous responses. After screening, 32 questionnaires
were found either unanswered or for some of the questions more than one answer
chosen. These 32 incomplete and inconsistent questionnaires were dropped from further
data analysis. Rest of the 368 questionnaires were considered valid and used for
subsequent analysis.
4.3.10 Data Entry and Screening
Initially all collected data for the category questions from the 368 valid questionnaires
was codified and then all data entered into a SPSS for WINDOWS release 17.0 spread
sheet which was previously constructed and tested checking variable names, labels and
codes for category questions. Each completed questionnaire was given reference codes
to facilitate cross checking. Measures included the examination of the value of each
data cell independently by two research assistants who cross checked the data set
against the questionnaires. Furthermore, using the questionnaire reference codes, this
researcher personally cross-checked the questionnaires with the data set. Exploratory
factor analysis was conducted on this data set. Based on the results obtained variables
with low factor loadings were eliminated. The remaining data set was entered into
AMOS for final analysis.
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4.3.11 Structural Equation Modelling and Hypotheses Testing
In this research, the conventional way of SEM involving evaluation of the measurement
and structural models together in one stage or at a time was followed (Diamantopolous
1994). One factor measurement models were estimated first in order to assess the
quality of the measurement items before the structural model was estimated. At this
stage, this research used CFA model to maximize the reliability of latent variables and
to reduce the variables to a manageable level in fitting structural equation models to
data at the subsequent stage (Holmes-Smith & Rowe 1994).
4.4 Ethical Considerations
Because the objects of inquiry in interviewing are human beings, extreme care has been
taken to avoid respondent concern about any aspect of the research. Traditional ethical
concerns revolve around the topics of informed consent (consent has been taken from
the respondents after they are carefully and truthfully informed about the research),
right to privacy (protecting the identity of the subject), and protecting from harm
(physical, emotional, or any other kind) (Fontana & Frey 1994). Consent from
principals of schools where interviews were conducted was taken and class teachers
were present while interviewing their students in this study.
For this research, a research protocol was developed to cover the ethical aspects of both
qualitative and quantitative research and approval (H 6890) was obtained from
University of Western Sydney’s Human Research Committee and all the relevant
documents are attached in the appendix section. Accordingly, at the beginning of the
study the respondents were promised about anonymity for their participation. Special
care has been taken while reporting the research findings that none of the respondents
are recognisable even through some contextual references.
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Chapter 5 Refinement of Measurement Scales by Qualitative
Measures
5.1 Introduction
In the previous chapter, it was mentioned that both qualitative as well as quantitative
methods of research have been used in this study. Traditionally, qualitative and
quantitative approaches have been positioned as if they were polar and mutually
exclusive alternatives. More recently however, a more balanced approach has emerged
in which both types of researcher admit the contribution of the other. Overall,
qualitative research is best suited to areas calling for a flexible approach, while
quantitative research is necessary to define more precisely the issues identified through
qualitative methods. As a broad generalisation, qualitative research is an essential
prerequisite to most quantitative research in that it helps clarify the issue to be
addressed (Baker 1991).
Exploratory research is mostly carried out by qualitative research. An extension of the
exploratory intent is the use of group interviews for the purpose of refining and pre-
testing measurement scales, or other elements of a survey design, which is very
common in survey research (Desvousges & Frey 1989). Group interviewing may be
conducted questioning several individuals simultaneously in formal or in-formal
settings (Fontana & Frey 1994). In this research, two FGIs were conducted to carry out
qualitative research as a prelude to the quantitative research. This was done in order to
refine the constructs of the model for consumer socialisation by reality TV (CSRTV)
and their measurement variables that have been developed through literature reviews as
well as being reported (Table 5.1). This will later be tested using a quantitative method.
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In this research, understanding teenagers’ consumer socialisation through involvement
with RTV is the pivotal issue. Moreover, as social structural variables, teenagers’ social
class differences, gender differences, parental control and peer group influences on
RTV involvement have been considered while exploring the key research issues. In this
qualitative study, students of two schools; Nilkhet school and Udayan school from
Dhaka city were selected for the focus group interviews. During the participant
selection process for the two FGIs; teenagers’ age groups (13-19 years), equal gender
participation, representing both lower and middle social classes who watch RTV for at
least an hour a week were considered. To conduct the FGIs, ten students, five from each
gender from both the schools were selected, and all the participants’ viewpoints were
coded for qualitative analysis. As participants, boys were coded as ‘B’ and girls as ‘G’
from both the groups, and then coded numerically while analysing and reporting focus
group interview findings. As mentioned earlier, social class differences and gender
difference are two important social structural variables. Therefore, during the time of
school selection, both the issues were given consideration. Most of the students in
Nilkhet school come from the lower social class. Whereas, the students of Udayan
School are mainly from the middle social class. However, both the schools offer co-
education. In the following section, the key findings of the qualitative phase of the
research are presented, focusing on the key constructs developed in chapter 3.
5.2 RTV Involvement
In this research, the impact of RTV on the consumer socialisation of teenagers is
determined by teenagers’ involvement with it. It has already been mentioned that the
concept of RTV is at an early stage of its development and very little research has been
carried out to measure involvement with RTV (Yoon & Garma 2006). Accordingly,
measurement items of RTV involvement in Table 5.1 were adopted; refined and new
scale items were developed based on the focus group interviews of the qualitative phase
of this research.
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Findings of this phase of the research show that teenaged boys and girls representing
both the social classes watch RTV. However, it has been found that teenagers from the
middle social class watch relatively more RTV than their lower social class counterparts
due to their better access to local and satellite TV channels. Generally, girls watch RTV
more regularly than the boys within the same social class. Overall, eighteen participants
of the two social classes regularly (at least 5 hours a week) and two participants
occasionally watch RTV. Teenagers from the two social classes have different as well
as some common favourite RTV shows. Overall, most of the boys and girls from both
the social classes regularly watch only their favourite RTV shows, rather than watching
RTV for a particular number of hours. Moreover, they pay close attention when they
watch their favourite RTV shows. Interestingly, boys spend lesser time than girls
watching RTV and claim to pay more attention while watching RTV shows. Teenagers
watch RTV not only for entertainment but also for getting information about among
other things, products and services in the market. Teenagers also keep themselves
updated about RTV shows and it’s celebrities from various sources including
newspapers. Teenagers from the lower class social background have limited access to
newspapers, but still follow with interest, the news of RTV and it’s celebrities through
newspapers whenever they get the chance. Whereas, middle class teenagers have more
access to newspapers and know more than their lower social class counterparts about
RTV and it’s celebrities from that source. Overall, both boys and girls of both social
classes mention that they selectively read about their favourite RTV shows in
newspapers. Interestingly, teenagers do not watch everything that they read in
newspapers about RTV and its celebrities. Teenagers of both genders and social classes
know that the internet is a powerful medium for watching RTV, although none of them
watch RTV on the web regularly. In the middle social class, some teenagers have access
to the internet. They think the internet is expensive and because of the server’s slow
speed, they only occasionally watch RTV on the internet. On the other hand, lower
social class teenagers do not watch RTV on the net because none of them have a
computer or an internet connection in their homes. However, both the groups expressed
their interest in watching RTV on the internet, provided they could afford it and get the
chance.
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On the basis of the above discussions, the following scale items are adopted and refined
from current literature (Table 5.1):
1) Teenagers watch RTV.
2) Teenagers pay close attention when they watch RTV.
3) Teenagers read about RTV in news papers.
In addition, the following new scale item has been developed based on the findings of
the FGIs of this research:
4) Teenagers wish to watch RTV on the internet.
Generally, both the boys and girls are involved in RTV. They also show interest in
participating in RTV. However, they are also concerned about the standard of RTV
shows. Most of the boys and girls of the middle social class have shown interest in
participating in RTV. Furthermore, they have also shown interest in participating in
RTV, if their favourite RTV celebrities are in the program. Whereas, teenagers in the
lower social class have an interest in joining RTV shows, but have limited opportunity
to do so. Teenagers of this group are quite selective with the content of RTV and show
moderate interest in participating in RTV shows if their favourite celebrities are there.
Some of the respondents from both the social classes follow their favourite celebrities’
style and fashion. Teenagers however, have different motives behind attending RTV but
both the groups are also concerned about the content of the RTV that they wish to join.
On the basis of the above discussions, the following scale items are adopted and refined
from current literature (Table 5.1) as they are supported by the findings of the FGIs of
this research:
5) Teenagers wish they could be on RTV shows.
6) Teenagers would attend a public appearance if their favourite character from the
show were there.
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Sometimes teenagers also play imaginative roles while watching particular RTV
shows. They often critically analyse complex situations like game shows, quiz shows
of RTV and like to imagine how they would react in that situation. Particularly,
respondents of middle social class tries to analyse a particular critical situation shown in
RTV then play an imaginative role more than their lower social class counterparts.
Further, this seems to be more common among boys than girls in this regard. However,
respondents have mixed feelings about RTV celebrities who participate in others
multiple types of programs. RTV celebrities who are participating in different programs
do not carry much appeal for the boys and girls of the lower social class. Most of the
participants of this group want to see the celebrities’ original performance, not
excessive media presence. Still though, most of them follow the RTV celebrities’ who
participate in multiple featured programs.
On the basis of the above discussions, the following scale items are adopted and refined
from current literature (Table 5.1) as they are supported by the findings of the FGIs of
this research:
7) Teenagers imagine how they would act in a similar situation shown on RTV.
8) Teenagers watch other programs which include contestants from the RTV show.
Finally, teenagers were asked about the credibility of RTV content. Most of the
teenagers from the lower social class are not very clear about the features of RTV, but
they still think that the content of RTV is real as ordinary people participate there.
Whereas, teenagers from the middle social class analyse content of RTV better than
their lower social class counterparts. The majority of them also think that RTV is real.
They consider these shows as more realistic, as the audience votes for participants and
programs are telecast as live shows.
On the basis of the above discussions, the following scale item is adopted and refined
from current literature (Table 5.1) as it is supported by the findings of the FGIs of this
research:
9) RTV is just like real life.
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After the focus group interviews, previous scales identified from current literature were
refined and adopted for this study. Furthermore, the following scale items from current
literature were found irrelevant to a developing country's teenagers, based on the FGI
findings.
Teenagers from both the social class backgrounds watch RTV, but neither of them
allocates any particular number of hours to watching RTV. So, certain programs rather
than any particular number of hours viewing are important to them. Interestingly also,
teenagers from both the social classes have shown low interest in voting, either by short
message service (SMS), or making phone calls for RTV shows. None of the teenagers
of the middle social class vote regularly for RTV shows, though, most of them have
access to a mobile phone. Both the groups think it is unnecessary expenditure. Lower
social class teenagers are even more reluctant to vote for RTV shows. Overall, both
boys and girls from the two social classes are selective regarding sending votes for RTV
shows and none of them cast their vote regularly for the RTV shows and its celebrities.
Moreover, none of the teenagers in the middle class think about RTV situations when
they are not watching RTV, be it in leisure periods or in busy moments. Similar
responses were also found with both the genders of the lower class social background.
On the basis of above discussions, the following scale items are dropped from current
literature as they are not supported by the findings of the FGIs of this research:
1) Teenagers watch RTV at certain hours of the week.
2) Teenagers regularly vote in RTV (e.g., SMS, Phone calls).
3) Teenagers think about RTV shows when they do not watch them.
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5.3 Consumption Related Cognition
Consumption related cognition is an important outcome variable of consumer
socialisation (Moschis & Moore 1982; Guilfoy 1998) which is considered as a construct
in this research. In the following section, FGI findings on teenagers’ consumption
related cognition through involvement with RTV has been discussed.
Teenagers from both the social classes acknowledge that RTV provides a lot of
information. Generally it has been found though, teenagers from the middle class social
backgrounds are relatively more aware of the features of RTV than their lower social
class counterparts. As a result, the FGI results show that the teenagers of this social
class are comparatively better than the lower social class teenagers regarding
information processing and recalling capacity provided by RTV. Both these groups
however, acknowledge that information provided by RTV about products and services
keep them updated about the market condition.
However, sometimes it does fail to provide sufficient and exact information which is
required by the teenagers. Most of the teenagers of the middle social class mentioned
that during the time of RTV shows, the name of various products and brands are shown
on the TV screen. Furthermore, anchors and participants often provide information
about products, as do judges of various RTV shows expose particular products and
brands. Most of the teenagers agreed that RTV creates brand awareness that generates
their interest to know more about new products. Participants from the lower social class
consider RTV as a source of information about new products and brands like their
middle class counterparts. However, teenagers from this social class background have a
lower understanding of the concept of brands, but still can recall the different names of
various products shown on RTV. It has already been mentioned that teenagers pay close
attention while watching their favourite shows. Therefore, RTV often develops
teenagers’ product usage instruction capacity and creativity about new fashion and
styles. Most of the participants from the middle social class agreed that RTV helps them
to understand product usage instruction by mentioning features and the nature of
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products. Sometimes anchors also describe how to use particular products such as a
mobile phone, and MP3 etc. Moreover, teenagers from the middle social class pick
more product usage instruction information from RTV than their lower social class
counterparts. On the other hand, teenagers in the lower social class are also aware of
these products and services related instruction, which is often shown on RTV, but do
not follow them as strongly as their middle social class counterparts. Whereas, girls
understand product usage instruction better than boys as they spent more time on RTV.
Furthermore, FGI findings show, irrespective of their gender and social class, RTV
helps teenagers recall product and brand names. However, it has been observed that
although teenagers from both the social classes and genders can recall the name of
products and brands from RTV, the extent of that varies between social classes.
Teenagers from the middle social class understand the concept of brands and can
differentiate from generic products quite well. They can also recall different brand
names from RTV better than their lower social class counterparts. Whereas, teenagers in
the lower social class are not quite clear about the concept between brands and
products; they often recall the products and brands interchangeably. Overall, although
to a lesser extent, RTV also helps teenagers in the lower social class to recall different
brands.
RTV is also a good source of information about products and brands that are available
in the market. Teenagers from the middle social class can get an idea about the sources
(e.g., shopping mall, outlets) of products and brands that are shown on RTV.
Furthermore, boys have more opportunities than girls to move around different
shopping malls together with their friends. However, teenagers from the lower social
class mostly rely on RTV advertisements rather than the programs to know and learn
about the products and brands that are available in the market. However, it is observed
that overall, girls are to some extent better than boys in understanding and processing
products and brands related information from RTV.
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On the basis of the above discussions, the following scale items are adopted and refined
from current literature (Table 5.1) as they are supported by the findings of the FGIs of
this research:
1) RTV provides lot of information (e.g., products, brands) for teenagers.
2) RTV makes teenagers aware about particular brands.
3) Teenagers understand product usage instruction from RTV.
4) RTV helps teenagers to recall certain products.
5) RTV is a good a way to learn about what products/brands are available in the
market.
Moreover, FGI findings show that teenagers from both the social classes keenly observe
and follow what brands and products are used by the participants, anchors and judges of
RTV. In particular, judges or any special guest of RTV create awareness about new
products among the teenagers. Moreover, teenagers like to share and discuss with others
what participants, anchors and judges are wearing, commenting on and promoting in
RTV. Therefore, teenagers sometimes say positive things about products and services to
others which are recommended by their favourite celebrities. In particular, participants
from the middle social class have more access to local and satellite TV channels than
their lower social class counterparts. So, they have more information to share with
others. Moreover, some of the participants from this group think RTV celebrities
influence their buying decisions as they like certain music and film celebrities. In this
social class RTV celebrities create some initial awareness that leads teenagers to say
positive things to others about products and brands. Furthermore, sharing information
with peers and friends is quite common among the teenagers of both the genders. So
teenagers, irrespective of their gender, also influence moderately their friends and
others about brands advised by their favourite RTV celebrities.
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On the basis of the above discussions, the following scale item is adopted and refined
from current literature (Table 5.1) as it is supported by the findings of the FGIs of this
research:
6) The opinions of teenagers’ favourite RTV celebrities influence them to say positive
things about products or brands to other people.
It is needless to mention that most of the multinational and local big companies sponsor
RTV to promote their brands. Teenagers from the middle social class consider not only
RTV content, but also consider advertisements in RTV for new product ideas. Whereas
in the lower social class, teenagers mostly rely upon advertisements shown on RTV for
new product ideas. They mentioned that it is easier for them to follow new products and
brands ideas from advertisements on RTV, as they are straightforward. Moreover
teenagers, irrespective of their gender and two social classes, have similar opinions
about the brands that sponsor RTV. Teenaged boys and girls can easily recall the
sponsoring brands of RTV that ultimately create brand image. Moreover, these RTV
sponsoring brands create awareness among the teenagers. Most of the participants
mentioned that, ‘We believe in big brands’. Overall, these big brands are more
successful in creating awareness about new products and services in the market.
Teenagers from the middle social class selectively follow fashion and styles shown on
RTV and then they adopt it according to their tastes and personalities. However,
teenagers from the lower social class show interest in the creative features that RTV
offers, but often they fail to fulfill it in their personal lives due to social and economic
constraints.
On the basis of the above discussions, the following new scale items has been
developed based on the findings of the FGIs of this research:
7) Advertisements shown in RTV give teenagers new product ideas.
8) Teenagers prefer the brands that sponsor RTV as they increase their brand
awareness.
9) RTV makes teenagers do something new and creative.
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It has already been mentioned that RTV helps teenagers recall different products and
brand names. Generally however, they do not differentiate much between recalling and
recognising products and brands, rather, they mean it interchangeably. Overall,
respondents from both the social class backgrounds are comfortable with the concept of
recalling any brands or products instead of product and brand recognition. However,
recalling different products’ names does not necessarily help them to decide strongly
what brands to buy. Teenagers from a middle class social background think that RTV is
a good source of knowledge about new products and services in the market, but they
strongly consider their peer group’s opinion and knowledge before making buying
decisions. Teenagers from the lower social class background also agreed with their
middle class counterparts in this regard. They mostly consider their affordability and
parental consent before making any buying decisions instead of being influenced by
RTV.
Teenagers from both the social class backgrounds have agreed that RTV is a good
source of information because it creates awareness about different products. However,
quite often RTV fails to provide the desired information to make buying decisions.
Teenagers of both the groups think RTV provides a lot of information, but not always
accurate information. Furthermore, teenagers of both the groups failed to understand the
concept of value analysis, as they are not well aware about this term. So, value analysis
is quite unusual among them while making buying decisions.
On the basis of the above discussions, the following scale items are dropped from
current literature as they are not supported by the findings of the FGIs of this research:
1 RTV helps teenagers to recognise particular products and brands.
2 RTV helps teenagers to decide what brands to buy.
3 RTV helps teenagers to do value analysis.
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5.4 Consumption Related Attitude
In the consumer socialisation discipline (Hastings & Aitken 1995; Russell, Norman &
Heckler 2004), consumption related attitude was found to be an important outcome
variable of the consumer socialisation, which is also a construct in this research. In the
following section, FGI findings on teenagers’ consumption related attitudes through
their involvement in RTV are discussed.
Generally, teenagers from both the social classes watch RTV for entertainment and
information. Teenagers from the middle social class more closely observe outfits, hair
styles and the latest fashions of the anchors and participants of RTV. Moreover, they get
fashion and style related tips from lifestyle based RTV which develops their fashion
consciousness. Furthermore, teenagers’ favourite celebrities on RTV provide ideas
about recent trends of style and fashion. Generally, girls are more involved with fashion
and lifestyle based shows. However, teenagers of both the groups think rationally when
they think of buying products and brands shown on RTV. In particular, girls try to
closely follow the fashion tips from RTV celebrities in lifestyle based RTV shows.
However, social, religious and economic issues are also key variables while they make
their buying decisions. Overall, teenaged boys and girls in the middle social class like
the attractive figures of RTV celebrities. Some of them want to have a good figure or
physique like RTV celebrities. Particularly boys like the celebrities who have muscular
physiques. Moreover, most of the teenaged boys think celebrities should have a good
figure and physical fitness. Girls on the other hand appreciate the good looking
celebrities, particularly the good figure of actresses and singers.
Teenagers from the middle social class are comparatively more involved with RTV.
They mostly watch RTV for fun and pleasure. They also get pleasure from seeing what
their favourite celebrities wear on RTV and pay attention to their favourite shows that
satisfy their style and fashion related information needs. Girls also pay attention to
products shown on RTV. Particularly, girls strongly consider RTV to be a good source
of their fashion related product information. Moreover, the fondnesses towards the
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products shown on RTV are also felt strongly in this social class irrespective of gender,
although they are quite conscious and selective about their tastes and personalities.
Interestingly, teenaged boys from this social class are more proactive than their female
counterparts in following the instructions from technology based RTV (e.g., MP3, I
phone). However, teenagers from this social class only show their interest towards their
favourite celebrities on RTV if it matches their taste and personality. They also
generally agree with their lower social class counterparts that social, cultural, and
religious issues are considered while making any purchasing decision regarding
products and brands that are shown on RTV.
Whereas, unlike their middle social class counterparts, teenagers from the lower social
class also show interest towards physically attractive and good looking RTV celebrities.
In particular, teenaged boys have a strong liking for physically attractive models.
Teenaged girls also have shown similar interest in physically attractive RTV celebrities.
However, none of them actively try to achieve this because they know it is impossible,
rather they fantasise.
On the basis of the above discussions, the following scale items are adopted and refined
from current literature (Table 5.1) as they are supported by the findings of the FGIs of
this research:
1) Teenagers get fashion tips from RTV.
2) Teenagers’ favourite celebrities on RTV make them fashion conscious.
3) Teenagers like the products shown on RTV.
4) Teenagers often buy clothing styles that they have seen on RTV.
5) Teenagers want to have a good figure like RTV celebrities.
Teenagers from both the social classes, irrespective of gender differences have a
particular liking toward some RTV celebrities, but sometimes they are quite concerned
about their RTV celebrities’ activities and personalities. Teenagers from the middle
class social background critically evaluate RTV celebrities’ personalities and outlooks.
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Interestingly, when they consider any RTV celebrities as their idol, they hardly consider
the celebrities' outlook; rather they consider celebrities' knowledge and personality.
Irrespective of gender, both groups have a fondness towards their favourite RTV
celebrities and want to show strong attachment to them. They would even not mind
having lunch with their favourite celebrities.
Interestingly, a number of teenagers from the lower social class consider actresses and
singers as their favourite idols. However, while both boys and girls from this social
class think that some RTV celebrities are their idols, none of them dreams of following
RTV celebrities. However, they are also interested in meeting their favourite RTV
celebrities. They even desire to visit an expensive restaurant if they get the chance to
have lunch with their celebrities. Most of them think having lunch with their favourite
RTV celebrities is also a good opportunity to take a picture and get an autograph!
On the basis of the above discussions, the following scale items are adopted and refined
from current literature (Table 5.1), as they are supported by the findings of the FGIs of
this research:
6) Teenagers see their favourite RTV celebrities as their idols.
7) Teenagers would like to have lunch with their favourite RTV celebrity.
It has already been mentioned that RTV makes teenagers aware about various products
and brands. As teenagers have a favorable attitude towards famous brands, whenever
RTV promotes any brand of a famous company, it has a positive affect on the teenagers
minds. Most of the teenagers from both the social classes think that the importance
attached to a brand by RTV helps them to know about new brands. Interestingly,
teenagers from both the groups have shown similar preferences towards the foreign
brands that sponsor RTV. Teenagers from the middle social class understand the
concept of the multinational brand and they think credibility of multinational brands is
higher than the local or unknown brands that sponsor some RTV too. Therefore,
multinational brands that sponsor RTV create a greater awareness among the teenagers
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than the local or unknown brands. Whereas, teenagers from the lower social class do not
have such an understanding regarding multinational brands like their middle social class
counterparts. They can only understand about foreign products. Furthermore, they show
interest in watching RTV which is sponsored by foreign products. Overall, both the
groups show interest in knowing about foreign brands shown on RTV. Interestingly,
both the groups also have common views about showing unethical products (e.g.,
alcohol, beer) on RTV, whether through an advertisement or as a product placement.
Teenagers from both the social classes strongly believe these unethical products (e.g.,
alcohol, beer) may be common in western society but it should not be promoted in the
local media. However, to some extent, teenagers of the middle social class are more
lenient than their lower social class counterparts regarding showing unethical products
at RTV.
On the basis of the above discussions, the following scale item is adopted and refined
from current literature (Table 5.1):
8) Teenagers feel very strongly about banning unethical products (e.g., tobacco,
alcohol) from being shown in RTV.
In addition, the following new scale item has been developed, based on the findings of
the FGIs of this research:
9) Teenagers prefer to buy multinational brands if they are shown by local RTV.
Teenagers from both the social class backgrounds have shown some attachment to RTV
celebrities. Particularly, good looking celebrities are well appreciated by most of them.
However, none of them appreciate these celebrities when they get plastic surgery to
enhance their attractiveness. Most of the participants appreciate natural beauty, rather
than the artificial beauty of RTV celebrities. Furthermore, not only good looking, but
also the physically attractive RTV celebrities are warmly accepted by the teenagers
from both the social classes. Teenagers, particularly from the middle social class know
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that movie celebrities maintain a special diet for an attractive figure. Interestingly none
of them like skinny RTV models. Similarly, teenaged boys and girls in the lower social
class do not like excessively thin RTV models. None of the respondents think it is
important that they should have figures like RTV celebrities, but rather that they should
be in good health.
On the basis of the above discussions, the following scale item is dropped from current
literature as it is not supported by the findings of the FGIs of this research:
1) Thin models in RTV create teenagers’ interest in plastic surgery.
5.5 Consumption Related Values
Consumption related values have been indicated as an outcome of consumer
socialisation research (Chan 2003; Gruber & Thau 2003). In the following section, FGI
findings regarding teenagers’ consumption related values developed through their
involvement in RTV have been discussed.
Teenagers from both the social classes expressed some similarities and distinctive
features regarding consumption related values. Most of them consider affordability and
parental consent as important while making purchasing decisions. Generally, they think
products and brands shown on RTV are quite expensive. Therefore, some of them do
not show a strong interest to get the new or expensive products shown on RTV.
However, ‘pester’ power is observed in both the social classes. In particular, teenagers
from the middle social class have more affordability, but they are quite selective
regarding any products and brands quality and features that are shown on RTV.
Interestingly, if any promoted brands on RTV catch the attention of teenagers, then they
try to get that. Moreover, they also express strong desire to get the newest brands (e.g.,
MP3, mobile phone) if they like them. Overall, teenagers irrespective of both genders
are quite selective about products shown on RTV and they always think of the best
brands whenever they try to buy. However, most of them get bursary from their parents,
and their parents also keep monitoring how this money is used. However teenagers,
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irrespective of gender, wish to have more financial freedom to make their own buying
decisions. Therefore, whenever they like any product they try to convince their parents.
Others also express their desire to their parents about preferred brands shown on RTV
or even in advertisements on RTV. Overall, teenage boys of the middle social class are
comparatively more demanding than the girls in the same social class.
Whereas teenagers from the lower social class are less demanding than their middle
social class counterparts about having products shown on RTV. Two boys and three
girls wish to have the newest and best things shown on RTV. One participant (B 2) said,
‘Every one likes good products’. Furthermore, three boys and one girl added that new
things are always appreciated. However, they also realise products shown on RTV are
expensive, as well as not always matching their taste and choice. Furthermore,
sometimes they wish to get the best products shown on RTV, but due to financial
constraints they compromise. Teenagers from this social class also pay attention to what
products and brands are shown in RTV advertisements. Similarly, like their middle
social class counterparts, they are fully dependent on their parental bursary and mostly
request their parents to buy any product for them. Therefore, most of them wish to have
more financial freedom, to have their favourite products that are shown on RTV.
However in general, parents mostly take their teenaged kids with them for shopping for
whatever is required.
On the basis of the above discussions, the following scale items are adopted and refined
from current literature (Table 5.1) as they are supported by the findings of the FGIs of
this research:
1) Teenagers like to own the newest things shown on RTV.
2) Teenagers like to own the best things shown on RTV.
3) It is better to have a bigger allowance from parents to buy the brand shown on RTV.
4) Teenagers often ask their parents for money to buy products that are promoted in
RTV programs.
5) Teenagers often ask their parents to get the products shown on advertisement in
RTV shows.
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Teenagers of both the social classes are not only aware of different brands but also are
concerned with unethical products shown on RTV. Sometimes prohibited items such as
alcohol and cigarettes are promoted by the participants as product placement in foreign
RTV. Furthermore, sponsors promote their brands through RTV. Teenagers irrespective
of gender think that some RTV content and advertisement promotion of prohibited
items may deceive teenagers and lead them to consume them. Furthermore, parents are
particularly strict regarding these unethical product promotions through RTV. Even
from a societal point of view this unethical product consumption is also discouraged
heavily in the context of Bangladesh.
On the basis of the above discussions, the following scale item is adopted and refined
from current literature (Table 5.1) as it is supported by the findings of the FGIs of this
research:
6) Some RTV shows promote the use of prohibited items (e.g., alcohol, cigarettes)
amongst teenagers.
Teenagers irrespective of gender from both the social classes are quite conservative
regarding prohibited items (e.g., alcohol, cigarettes) promoted on RTV, either as part of
program content or as advertisements. Interestingly, a couple of boys do not mind
having a sip of an alcoholic beverage on a special occasion, but girls strongly oppose it.
Most of them believe that consuming these prohibited items can not be a source of fun
and excitement; rather they bring trouble in life. Furthermore, teenagers from both the
groups have also shown similar attitudes towards sexually appealing outfits worn by
participants, or by judges. These days, not only in foreign RTV, but also in local ones,
there are lifestyle based fashion shows where participants and sometimes judges are
wearing sexually appealing outfits. Most of the respondents believe that RTV
participants who wear sexually revealing outfits want cheap publicity. Further, they also
believe judges should maintain their image, not wearing unnecessarily sexually
revealing outfits.
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On the basis of the above discussions, the following scale items are dropped from
current literature as they are not supported by the findings of the FGIs of this research:
1) Consumption of prohibited items (e.g., alcohol, cigarettes) makes life more fun and
exciting.
2) Teenagers like sexually appealing outfits worn by RTV participants and judges.
5.6 Social Structural Variables and RTV Involvement of
Teenagers
In the consumer socialisation discipline, various social structural variables received
significant attention from researchers (Kamaruddin & Mokhlis 2003; Mangleburg &
Grewal 1997). In various consumer socialisation research; social class differences,
gender differences, parental controls and peer group influences on media usage were
observed as social structural variables (Cardoza 2002; Kuhl 2006; Lueg & Finney 2007)
that influence the consumer socialisation of teenagers (Carlson, Lacznaik & Walsh
2001; Cardoza 2002). Accordingly, the above mentioned variables have been
considered as social structural variables in this research as a means to understand the
consumer socialisation of teenagers by RTV in a developing country.
Television plays an important role as a consumer socialisation agent in the consumer
socialisation of teenagers (Arnett 1995; Choi & Ferle 2004). Not only in developed
countries but also in developing countries, teenagers are involved with TV (Bhosale &
Gupta 2006). Bangladesh is one of the developing countries in South Asia. Teenagers in
Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, have strong involvement with TV (Nath 2006).
However, their choice of television programs and the nature of their involvement in the
programs vary due to the above-mentioned social structural variables. Recently, RTV
has been receiving the attention of teenagers in Dhaka city. Particularly, teenaged boys
and girls from the middle and lower social classes of Dhaka city have shown
involvement with RTV. In the following section, based on the findings of the qualitative
stage of this research, teenagers’ involvement with RTV is explained from the
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perspective of each of the social structural variables to understand the consumer
socialisation of teenagers.
5.6.1 Peer Group Influences on RTV Involvement
Various researches (Churchill & Moschis 1979; French, Pidada & Victor 2005) have
shown that peers play a significant role in the consumer socialisation as a socialisation
agent. Furthermore, it has also been shown that peer groups play an important role in
teenagers’ media, particularly TV involvement, which ultimately affects their consumer
socialisation (Lueg & Finney 2007; Nathanson 2001). Peer group influence on
teenagers’ TV involvement was also considered as a construct in this research.
School is not only a place for education but also a source of socialisation with peers and
friends. Every weekday, teenaged boys and girls from both the social class backgrounds
spend a long time with their peers and friends at school. Based on the findings of FGIs
for this research, it is clearly evident that the teenagers from both groups share and
influence each other with their TV program selection. However, generally, teenagers
from both the social classes have shown attachments towards their friends.
Furthermore, teenagers discuss with their friends what they watch on TV whatever the
content is (e.g., entertainment, sexual issues and information). They feel more
comfortable sharing with their peers and friends about what they watch on RTV, than
with their parents.
Generally, teenaged boys and girls keep in touch with their friends and peers even at
weekends. Most of the teenagers said it is very difficult to spend time with peers outside
of classes during the weekdays. Some of the respondents said they visit and meet with
their peers and friends at their homes during the weekends. Sometimes, teenagers of the
middle social class watch RTV on the internet while they meet together. On the other
hand, both boys and girls in the lower social class watch RTV together with their peers
and friends when they meet each other at weekends or during any family occasions.
Furthermore, it is not unusual that they also watch RTV together, as some of them live
within the same suburb.
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The following new scale item has been developed, based on the findings of the FGIs
(table 5.1) of this research:
1) Teenagers talk to their friends about RTV shows.
On the basis of the above discussions, the following scale items are adopted and refined
from current literature (Table 5.1) as they are supported by the findings of the FGIs of
this research:
2) Teenagers talk to their friends about RTV content.
3) Teenagers watch RTV together with their friends.
Generally, teenagers from the middle social class get more opportunity to meet their
friends. They often meet with their friends even outside the school (e.g. coaching class,
social groups). Therefore, they really care about their friends’ ideas and opinions about
different issues, including RTV show selection. Particularly, teenaged girls share more
commonly, as well as prefer the ideas of their peers regarding selection of RTV shows
like celebrity shows, fashion shows and information based RTV shows. They also think
that some RTV shows; particularly lifestyle based shows provide ideas about style and
fashion related products and during that program selection they consider their peers’
opinions. Furthermore, some RTV shows provide useful career tips to teenagers, though
a general finding is that teenagers watch RTV particularly to have fun and
entertainment. In particular, talent hunt shows, quiz shows and fashion shows are a real
source of fun and joy for them. Teenagers of both the genders from the two social
classes also share about this experience mostly with their friends. Peers and friends
often give their opinions and suggestions regarding RTV program and content
selection which ultimately influences purchasing decisions (e.g., buying MP3, DVD).
As teenagers have a reciprocal role of influencing each other, so they really care about
their counterparts’ opinions about different RTV shows. Generally, teenaged girls are
more proactive in sharing and making buying decisions together.
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On the basis of the above discussions, the following scale items are adopted and refined
from current literature (Table 5.1) as they are supported by the findings of the FGIs of
this research:
4) Teenagers’ peers think the content of RTV shows can provide useful information.
5) Teenagers’ peers think the content of RTV is entertaining.
6) Peers’ opinions of RTV shows are important to teenagers.
Teenagers of both the social classes watch RTV for fun and entertainment, but very few
of them have strong commitment towards any particular shows. None of the participants
from the middle social class send SMS or make phone calls to RTV, though most of
them have personal mobile phones. On the other hand, teenagers of the lower social
class show some desire to send SMS and make phone calls to their favourite RTV
shows, but none of them have a personal mobile phone. It has been found that
teenagers’ peers do not influence or encourage them to vote with RTV either. However,
the lower social class teenagers have shown their interest to participate as an audience
in RTV but hardly get the opportunity either alone or with their friends. Similarly,
teenagers from the middle class also have some interest in attending RTV as an
audience, but they are very selective in their decision whether to attend or not.
On the basis of the above discussions, the following scale items are dropped from
current literature as they are not supported by the findings of the FGIs of this research:
1) Teenagers encourage their peers to send SMS to RTV.
2) Teenagers and their peers participate together live on the RTV shows.
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5.6.2 Parental Control on RTV Involvement
According to current literature, parental communication styles (Fujioka & Austin 2002),
parental co-viewing of TV with teenagers (Kim & Shin 1996), and parental instructions
regarding TV influence teenagers’ TV consumption behaviour (Keith 1986), which
ultimately affect teenagers’ consumption decisions behaviour. In this research, Parental
control on RTV involvement of teenagers is considered as a construct.
Generally, it was found that teenagers of both the social classes and genders have close
relationships with their parents. Most of the teenagers of both genders discuss and share
with their mothers the content of RTV. Sometimes their mothers show interest towards
a particular RTV show. Furthermore, though to a lesser extent, some boys and girls
discuss and share views with their fathers about RTV content. Interestingly girls show
more attachment to their fathers than boys. They think sometimes, that their fathers
understand them better than their mothers. In addition, sometimes their fathers ask them
about RTV shows. Similarly, teenagers in the middle social class irrespective of gender
discuss the content of RTV with their parents, but not very frequently like their lower
class social counterparts. However, regarding the RTV program selection, parents and
teenagers play a joint role in the middle social class. Sometimes, boys and girls play an
active role in RTV show selection. Whereas, in the lower social class, it is mostly the
parents who play the active role in RTV show selection though both parents and
teenagers discuss their favourite shows selection.
On the basis of the above discussions, the following scale items are adopted and refined
from current literature (Table 5.1) as they are supported by the findings of the FGIs of
this research:
1) Teenagers talk to their parents about RTV content.
2) Teenagers and their parents discuss RTV show selection.
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In both the social classes, not only discussing the RTV shows, but also co-viewing is a
common practice between the parents and their teenaged children. However, it is not a
common phenomenon. In the lower social class, parents have a more regular presence
during the time of watching RTV with their teenaged children. Most of the respondents
in the lower social class said they do not get the chance to watch RTV alone at home.
One or the other parent is always there to watch RTV with them. Whereas, teenagers in
the middle social class, get considerably more freedom to watch RTV as in the middle
social class, often both parents work. However, more than half of the participants from
both social classes insist that they love to watch RTV with their parents. Interestingly,
teenagers’ co-viewing of RTV with parents varies in the two social classes during the
weekdays and weekends. In the middle social class, the majority of the teenagers watch
RTV with their parents during the weekends. Parents also give them time during the
weekend since some working parents are busy during weekdays. Furthermore, during
weekdays, if they watch RTV with their parents, the duration of it is much shorter.
Similarly, teenagers from the lower class social background also watch RTV with their
parents during weekends. They said, during the weekdays, they do not get enough time
to watch TV. During the weekend, TV is the main source of their joy and entertainment.
Generally, both boys and girls spend a moderate amount of time co-viewing RTV with
their parents.
On the basis of the above discussions, the following scale items are adopted and refined
from current literature (Table 5.1) as they are supported by the findings of the FGIs of
this research:
3) Teenagers and their parents watch RTV at weekends.
4) Teenagers and their parents watch RTV on weekdays.
Parental guidance, monitoring and knowledge about their teenagers’ lives are key
features of the Bangladeshi culture. In the lower social class, parents have a better
knowledge about their teenagers’ preferred shows as co-viewing of TV is more
common in their homes. On the contrary, in the middle social class, teenagers have
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relatively more freedom due to their parental professional business and availability of
various media. However, parents of both the social classes think, due to cultural and
social differences, some RTV content is not really suitable for their kids. Moreover,
they also think some RTV content is unacceptable to some extent. Interestingly, parents
are more strict and rigid towards their teenaged boys than their teenaged girls regarding
TV show selection.
On the basis of the above discussions, the following scale items are adopted and refined
from current literature (Table 5.1) as they are supported by the findings of the FGIs of
this research:
5) Teenagers’ parents know what teenagers watch on RTV.
6) Teenagers’ parents prohibit them from watching certain RTV shows.
Overall, parents of both the groups are more concerned about the content of RTV that
their teenaged children watch than the amount of time spent viewing RTV. Normally,
parents discourage their teenagers from watching RTV at hours of the day that they
consider to be study time. However, respondents generally reported that, they do not
face too much restriction when watching their favourite shows at prime times.
Interestingly, in the middle social class, parents are comparatively more lenient towards
teenagers’ media freedom than lower social class parents. Parents from both the social
classes rarely turn off, rather than shift TV channels while unsuitable content is shown.
On the basis of the above discussions, the following scale items are dropped from
current literature as they are not supported by the findings of the FGIs of this research:
1) Teenagers’ parents think some content on RTV is really bad for their teenagers.
2) Teenagers’ parents turn off the T.V. while unsuitable content is shown on RTV.
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5.7 Social Class and Gender Differences of Teenagers and
their RTV Involvement and Consumer Socialisation
From the current literature, not only parental control and peer group influences are
addressed as social structural variables, but also social class as well as the gender
differences of teenagers considered in this research. In the following section, it has been
identified that social class and the gender differences of teenagers influence their
involvement with RTV differently which ultimately affects their consumer socialisation.
5.7.1Social Class Differences and RTV Involvement of Teenagers
It has already been mentioned that separate FGIs were conducted among the teenaged
respondents selected from the lower and middle class social backgrounds. Each group
of teenagers was asked similar types of questions in order to understand their
involvement with RTV and how it influences their buying behaviour. Initially,
teenagers’ knowledge was discussed, to explore the range of ideas about RTV and then
how it relates to their consumer socialisation.
All the participants of both the social class backgrounds mentioned that they regularly
watch different TV shows. Recently, RTV has got the keen attention of teenagers of
Dhaka city. Both teenaged boys and girls of the two social classes watch RTV quite
regularly. Furthermore, they also pay close attention to their favourite RTV shows.
Most of the participants from both the social class backgrounds watch RTV for
entertainment, excitement, updated information and to gain knowledge. The most
watched RTV by both the groups are musical talent hunt shows, quiz shows, game
shows and lifestyle based shows. Furthermore, they also have shown interest in RTV
celebrities.
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Teenagers from the middle social class get more information about RTV and its
celebrities than lower social class teenagers, as they have more access to news papers.
Similarly, teenagers from the lower social class show interest in reading about RTV
shows and celebrities from news papers, but not as strongly as their middle social class
counterparts, as they have limited access to newspapers. Generally, teenagers from the
middle social class would be interested in meeting their favourite celebrities. So, they
strongly express their desire to attend selective RTV shows. Whereas teenagers from a
lower class social background also express their interest towards RTV celebrities, but
they have limited opportunity and access to attend RTV live shows.
Teenagers from both the social classes follow some favourite RTV shows, and that is
why sometimes as an audience, they imagine how they would act in a particular
challenging and critical situation shown on different RTV shows like ‘Junior Horlicks’.
However, most of them from both the groups just watch it for fun and are not much
attached to it. Most of the boys and girls from the middle social class have favourite
RTV celebrities and for that reason they give attention to other programs where their
favourite RTV celebrities are also performing. Also, they like to see how talented they
are with other programs and they enjoy watching them as well. Teenagers from the
lower social class follow moderately what RTV celebrities are doing with different
programs, but some of them think that RTV celebrities are unnecessarily involved with
other programs for shortcut success.
Interestingly, RTV has some distinctive features that make it more exclusive than other
TV shows. RTV shows are naturally unscripted and interactive with viewers. All the
participants from the middle social class school think the content of RTV is real, as they
watch live shows and have the chance to vote for participants. Whereas, teenagers of the
lower social class moderately consider that the content of RTV is real, as ordinary
people are participating in RTV shows. However, popularity and originality of RTV
came from the western media to Bangladesh. Information about RTV and their
celebrities is regularly available in various websites. Unfortunately, respondents from
the lower social class have no personal computers and no access to the internet as well.
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Whereas, middle class teenagers have some access to the internet and they watch RTV
on the internet occasionally. However, both the groups express a desire to get
information and search websites about RTV.
Overall, FGI findings show that there are some significant similarities as well as
differences between the two groups regarding their RTV involvement and the way it
effects their consumption related cognition, attitude and values.
5.7.2 Gender Differences and RTV Involvement of Teenagers
Teenagers’ gender differences have been found to be an important social structural
variable in the consumer socialisation of teenagers (Belk 1991; Kamaruddin & Mokhlis
2003) and have also been considered as an important social structural variable in this
research. Furthermore, some consumer socialisation studies have shown that
involvement with TV varies between boys and girls and that influences teenagers’
consumer socialisation differently (Grimes et al. 2004; Knobloch-Westerwick 2007).
Qualitative findings in this research show that boys and girls from both the social class
backgrounds watch RTV quite regularly. Generally, girls are relatively more regular
viewers of RTV than boys. Furthermore, girls are comparatively regular viewers of
certain RTV programs of their choice than boys. Moreover, they watch a variety of
RTV (e.g., musical talent hunt shows, quiz shows, life style based shows, fashion
shows). Whereas, teenaged boys watch particular RTV shows quite regularly (e.g., Quiz
shows, Musical talent hunt shows). Interestingly, boys often are more attentive than
girls when they watch their favourite shows. However, most of the boys and girls from
both the social class backgrounds watch RTV for fun, entertainment and information
about new products in the market. Furthermore, both the groups also read about RTV
shows and RTV celebrities in newspapers with enthusiasm. The boys read mostly about
sports and quiz based RTV, whereas the girls are more interested in entertainment and
glamour based RTV shows. Teenaged girls have a variety of favourite RTV shows and
they also closely observe what fashion and styles are followed by RTV celebrities.
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Moreover, girls also express their desire to meet their favourite celebrities in RTV
shows. On the other hand, boys are keener of sports stars rather than RTV stars.
Generally however, boys show slightly more interest than girls in participating in RTV
shows, because in a country like Bangladesh, girls are not encouraged to be seen in
public places unaccompanied by a family member. Generally, both boys and girls are
quite selective about participating in RTV.
Since girls watch more varieties of RTV, they pay attention to the challenging (e.g.,
elimination shows) situations shown on RTV. Furthermore, they also play imaginative
roles and think about what they would do in a challenging and critical situation in RTV.
On the contrary, boys are quite selective when watching RTV, and still think about
critical and challenging situations on RTV, but only when they strongly like it.
However, teenaged girls from both the social class backgrounds watch what their
favourite RTV celebrities are doing with other programs as well, and to some extent
they follow the fashion and style of their favourite celebrities. Whereas boys are not
strong followers of RTV celebrities regular activities with other TV shows.
RTV shows are quite popular on various TV channels these days. RTV offers some
exclusive features (e.g. interactivity, unscripted programs). So, both boys and girls
believe the content and structure of RTV is real since ordinary people participate, and
they can make phone calls during the shows. Furthermore, both the groups expressed
their desire to watch RTV on the internet and like to get RTV related information from
the websites. Unfortunately, none of them watch RTV on the internet regularly due to
low speed, unavailability and other economic reasons.
Overall, FGI findings show that there are some significant similarities as well as
differences between the two groups regarding their RTV involvement and the way it
effects their consumption related cognition, attitude and values.
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5.8 Conclusion
From the existing literature, various social structural variables (e.g., social class
differences, gender differences) along with parental control and peer group influences
were addressed in this research to understand their affect on the consumer socialisation.
Furthermore, through RTV involvement, consumption related cognition, attitude and
values were considered as outcome variables of the consumer socialisation from extant
literature. After conducting the FGIs, the measurement domains and variables of these
constructs were refined, adopted and rejected for this study, as these were developed
from the perspective of developed countries or in a western cultural setting, and
refinement was needed so that they are relevant for a developing country. Furthermore,
6 new scale items were developed on the basis of the FGI findings in this research for
further analysis. Table 5.1 shows the refined constructs, domain and measurement
variables. Furthermore, Table 5.2 shows different RTV programs that are watched by
teenaged boys and girls, as well as the frequencies of watching those RTV shows from
the two social classes.
Table 5.1 List of Constructs, Domains and Scale Items
Constructs Domains Scale Items from
Existing Literature
Adapted Scale Items
from Literature and
New Scale Items
from FGI
a) Time spent (Yoon & Garma 2006)
1) I watch RTV.
1) I watch RTV. RTV
Involvement b) Likings (Dolliver 2006; Pecheux &
Derbaix 2002; Yoon & Garma
2006)
1) I would attend a public
appearance if my favorite
RTV character from the
show were there. 2) I watch other programs
that include contestants
from the RTV show. 3) Reality TV shows are
just like real life. 4) I read about RTV shows
1) I would attend a public
appearance if my favorite
RTV character from the
show were there. 2) I watch other programs
that include contestants from
the RTV show. 3) RTV is just like real life. 4) I read about RTV in news
papers.
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in newspapers. c) Attention (Perse 1998; Yoon & Garma 2006)
1) I imagine how I would
act in a similar situation
shown on RTV shows. 2) I pay close attention
when I change TV
channels.
1) I imagine how I would act
in a similar situation shown
on RTV. 2) I pay close attention when
I watch RTV.
d) Desire towards RTV (Dolliver 2006)
1) I wish I could be on
reality TV
shows.
1) I wish I could be on RTV
shows. 2) I wish to watch RTV on
the internet (New scale from
FGI). a) Product Knowledge (Bartlett, Griffiths & Badian 2008; Zuckerman, Ziegler & Stevenson 1978;
Ward & Wackman 1971)
1) TV advertisements
(TVC) provide me with a
lot of information. 2) TVC makes me aware
about particular brands. 3) TVC helps me to recall
certain products. 4) TVC is a good a way to
learn about what
products/brands are
available in the market.
1) RTV provides me with a
lot of information. 2) RTV makes me aware
about particular brands. 3) RTV helps me to recall
certain products. 4) RTV is a good a way to
learn about what
products/brands are available
in the market. 5) Advertisements shown in
RTV give me new product
ideas (New scale from FGI) b) Consumer Role Perception (Moschis & Moore 1978)
1) I understand product
usage instructions from
TVC
1) I understand product
usage instruction from RTV. 2) RTV makes me creative
to do something new (New
scale from FGI).
Consumption
Related
Cognition
c)Purchasing intentions (Bush, Martin & Bush 2004)
1) The opinions of my
favourite athlete celebrities
influence me to say positive
things about products or
brands to other people.
1) The opinions of my
favourite RTV celebrities
influence me to say positive
things about products or
brands to other people. 2) I prefer the brands that
sponsor RTV to increase my
brand awareness (New scale
from FGI). Consumption
Related
a) Imitation (Russell, Norman & Heckler
1) I get fashion tips from
TV shows. 1) I get fashion tips from
RTV.
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2004) 2) I like the products shown
on TV programs. 3) I often buy clothing
styles that I have seen on
TV programs. 4) My favorite TV
celebrities make me fashion
conscious.
2) I like the products shown
on RTV. 3) I often buy clothing styles
that I have seen on RTV. 4) My favorite RTV
celebrities make me fashion
conscious.
b) Inspiration from media personalities (Hirschman & Thompson 1997;
Lawrie et al. 2006)
1) I want to look like my
favourite celebrities 2) I believe my favorite TV
celebrity is a good idol 3) I would like to have
lunch with my favourite TV
celebrity
1) I want to get a good figure
like RTV celebrities 2) I see my favorite RTV
celebrity as my idol 3) I would like to have lunch
with my favourite RTV
celebrity
Attitude
c) Attitude towards product placement (Schmoll et al. 2006).
1) I feel very strongly about
banning unethical products
shown in TVC.
1) I prefer to buy
multinational brands if
they are shown by RTV
(New scale from FGI). 2) I feel very strongly about
banning unethical products
shown in RTV. a) Materialism (Chan 2003)
1) I like to own the newest
things shown on TVC. 2) I like to own the best
things shown on TVC. 3) It is better to have more
of an allowance from
parents to buy the brand
shown on TVC
1) I like to own the newest
things shown on RTV. 2) I like to own the best
things shown on RTV. 3) It is better to have more of
an allowance from parents to
buy the brand shown on
RTV. b) Desire towards products (Ghani 2005; Hastings &
Aitken 1995)
1) 1) I often request of my
parents to get the products
shown on TV. 2) I often request of my
parents to get the products
shown on advertisements in
TV.
1) I often request of my
parents to get the products
shown on RTV. 2) I often request of my
parents to get the products
shown on advertisements in
RTV shows.
Consumption Related Values
c) Prohibited product consumption
1) TVC promote awareness
about beer drinking. 1) RTV shows promote use
of prohibited items among
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(Wyllie, Zhang & Casswell
1998)
teenagers.
a)Parental communication styles (Carlson, Lacznaik &
Walsh 2001)
1) I talk to my mom about
content of TV shows. 2) My parents and I discuss
TV show selection.
1) I talk to my parents about
RTV content. 2) My parents and I discuss
RTV show selection.
b) Co-viewing (Chan & McNeal 2003)
1) My parents and I watch
TV on weekdays. 2) My parents and I watch
TV on Saturday and
Sunday.
1) My parents and I watch
RTV on weekdays. 2) My parents and I watch
RTV on weekends.
c) Parental knowledge (Cardoza
2002; Carlson, Lacznaik &
Walsh 2001)
1) My mom knows what I
watch on TV. 1) My parents know what I
watch on RTV.
Parental
Control
d) Parental Opinion (Carlson,
Lacznaik & Walsh 2001) 1) My mom says evening
TV shows are bad for kids
1) My parents prohibit me
from watching certain RTV
shows a) Extrinsic motivation (Edward & Grantham 2009)
1) My friends and I talk
about any website that is
visited.
1) I talk to my friends about
the RTV shows (New scale
from FGI) 2) My friends and I talk
about the content of RTV
shows b) Peers Co-viewing (Nathanson 2001)
1) My friends and I often
watch TV together 1) My friends and I often
watch RTV together c) Peers Mediation (Nathanson 2001)
1) My friends think the
content of TV shows can
provide useful information. 2) My friends think the
content of TV is entertaining.
1) My friends think the
content of RTV shows can
provide useful information. 2) My friends think the
content of RTV is
entertaining.
Peer Group
Influences
d) Reinforcement (Lueg & Finney 2007)
1) My peers’ opinion on e-
shopping is important to
me.
1) My peers’ opinions on
RTV shows are important to
me.
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Table 5.2 Teenagers’ Favourite RTV shows (Number within parentheses indicating the
number of times mentioned by respondents)
RTV Shows Middle Social Class Lower Social Class
Boys Girls Boys Girls
Quiz Shows Roddies (2) , Dus
Ka Dam (2) ,
KBC (1)
KBC (1) ,
Roddies (1)
Junior Horlicks
(1)
N/A
Musical shows Live Rock Shows
(1)
Phone & Live
musical shows (2)
Khude Gan Raj
(1)
Khude Gan Raj
(2)
Talent Hunt
Shows
Indian Idol (1) ,
Close up
Bangladesh (1)
Indian idol (1) ,
Close up
Bangladesh (1)
Close up
Bangladesh (1)
Close up
Bangladesh (1),
Dhum Ta Na (1),
Nach Balyee (1)
Informational
Shows
Nokia Music Jam
next generation
(1)
Elimination game
Shows
Roddies (1) ,
Amazing Race (1)
Roddies (1), Fan
club tournament
(1)
Super hero-
heroine (1)
Life Style Shows N/A Look @ to me
(3), Lakme
Fashion (2),
Sunsilk hair
expert (2)
N/A P & G you got the
look (1)
Celebrity Talk
Shows
Amar Ami (1),
MTV celebrity
shows (1)
Amar Ami (1),
MTV celebrity
show (3)
Big Boss (1) Amar Ami (1)
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Table 5.3 The Compressed Assembly of Data based on FGIs
Constructs/Variables Comments made by Participants
Parental Control 1) ‘It is easier for me to ask for any product if my mother likes it from RTV’ (msc g 3). 2) ‘It is easier to influence my father to ask for any preferred product shown on RTV’ (msc g 5). 3) ‘It is really good fun to watch RTV at the weekend with my parents’ (lsc g 5). 4) ‘My father asks me which RTV shows are entertaining like Close Up Bangladesh’ (msc g 4).
5) ‘My mom gets annoyed if I watch something culturally irrelevant on RTV like Nach Balyee’ (lsc g 5).
Peer Group Influences 1) ‘I can not wait to share with my friends about TV shows like ‘Indian Idol’ ’(msc g 2). 2) ‘I trust my friends most’ (msc g 1). 3) ‘I go to my friend’s home to watch our common favourite shows like Close up Bangladesh’ (lsc b 2). 4) ‘I guide my friend, and she does me as well to follow some useful RTV shows like Lakme fashion shows’ (msc g 1). 5) ‘I do share my pocket money with my friends to buy our favourite things’ (msc g 2). 6) ‘My friend and I bought our MP3 together which we liked from RTV
shows’ (msc b 8).
RTV Involvement 1) ‘I watch and think when it is a quiz show e.g., Dus Kadam’ (msc b 2). 2) ‘I read newspapers that help me to know about RTV e.g., KBC, Roddies’ (msc g 1). 3) ‘My parents have a negative attitude towards the internet but I know that they are wrong’ (lsc g 4). 4) ‘I wish I could meet with my favourite singer at RTV shows e.g., Fan club tournament’ (msc g 3). 5) ‘I would like to meet my favourite hero at ‘Super hero and heroin’ shows’ (lsc g 4). 6) ‘We do not go with all RTV shows, we are quality viewer e.g., Amar Ami, Amazing Race’ (msc b 8, g 3). 7) ‘RTV celebrities want quick fame’. Still though, most of us follow the RTV celebrities’ (lsc b 8). 8) ‘Live shows like ‘Phone & Live concert’ give me real pleasure’ (msc g 2). 9) ‘RTV participants are real but judges are commercial’ (msc b 11).
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Consumption Related Cognition 1) ‘RTV makes a brand famous then we know about that product’ (msc b 9).
2) ‘I got to know about ‘Airtel’ as a mobile phone, when started watching ‘Dus KaDam’ (msc b 9).
3) ‘We know about new product from RTV’ (lsc b 2, g 4).
4) ‘We got to know about ‘Meridian chips’ from musical reality show like ‘Khude Ganraj’’ (lsc b 2, g 4). 5) ‘I have learnt how to use blue tooth of my mobile phone from RTV shows like ‘Nokia next generation’’ (msc b 8). 6) ‘Fashion shows help me to understand how to use make up ‘Look @ to me’’ (lsc g 3). 7) ‘Roddies rings me the bell of Hero Honda’ (msc b 8). 8) ‘I watch celebrity talk shows like ‘MTV celebrity talk shows’ (msc g 1). 9) ‘Often I suggest my friends about buying new products which are endorsed by RTV celebrities’ (msc b 8). 10) ‘I asked my friends that Habib (local popular singer) wear shirt from Cats’ eye’ (msc b 8). 11) I got to know about Airtel because I watch Big Boss’ (lsc b 2). 12) ‘RTV celebrities help me to think differently about my fashion’ (msc g 3). 13) ‘Fashion shows like ‘Sunsilk-Hair expert’ help me to think about new hair style’ (msc g 1).
Consumption Related Attitude 1) ‘If I could afford it, I would buy some of the clothes that my favourite actress wears in shows like Indian idol’ (msc g 5). 2) ‘I like John Abraham because he is so manly’ (msc b 6). 3) ‘I just imagine how my favourite actress maintains her figure!’ (msc g 4).
4) ‘I like what my favourite celebrities are wearing at ‘MTV celebrity
shows’ (msc g 2).
5) ‘I like Katrina’s movies, because she is so attractive’ (lsc b 8).
6) ‘Jafar Iqbal is our inspiration’ (msc b 7, b 9).
7) ‘We can get inspiration from RTV shows judges e.g., Roddies’.
8) ‘Having lunch with RTV celebrities is a life time experience e.g., lunch
with MTV celebrity shows’ (lsc g 2).
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9) ‘I do not spend for unknown brands’ (msc b 8).
10) ‘We prefer Lakme or Sunsilk than local cosmetics brand who are also
sponsoring fashion shows’ (msc g 1, g 2).
11) ‘RTV should not allow any unethical product sponsors’ (lsc b 1).
Consumption Related Values 1) ‘By the time I save money to buy a product shown in RTV, that model gets outdated’ (msc b 8). 2) ‘My mom takes my money when she knows I have good savings for buying a new brand new tops shown in ‘Look @ to me’’(msc g 3). 3) ‘I do not mind to cry to pursue my parents to get my favourite product shown in RTV’ (msc g 2). 4) ‘We often play mental games with our parents’ (msc b 10, b 11). 5) ‘Every one likes good products’ (lsc b 2). 6) ‘People will praise me if I get new products shown on RTV’ (lsc g 3). 7) I really like the outfit shown at ‘P & G you got the look’ (lsc g 3). 8) ‘We should not forget our culture’ (lsc g 5).
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Chapter 6 Assessment and Refinement of Measurement
Scales by Quantitative Measures
6.1 Introduction In this research both qualitative and quantitative methods have been used. Qualitative
research has been conducted to help develop the constructs and refining their multi-item
measurement items. Quantitative methods were applied to test the constructs and their
relationships. In the previous chapter results of the qualitative research have been
reported. The results of the qualitative research have been subjected to further
quantitative testing for model development of consumer socialisation by RTV. In this
chapter the results of the quantitative research will be reported. Before reporting
detailed quantitative analyses the sample characteristics are presented.
6.2 Sample Characteristics
In the quantitative phase of the research, a total of 400 teenagers representing both
genders participated in this survey. After careful editing data related to 368 of these
participants were found valid. Editing consisted of screening questionnaires to identify
illegible, incomplete, inconsistent, or ambiguous responses. After screening, 32
questionnaires were found either unanswered or some of the questions answered more
than once. These 32 incomplete and inconsistent questionnaires were dropped from
further data analysis. Rest of the 368 questionnaires were considered valid and used for
subsequent analysis.
In this research, gender differences of teenagers have been considered as one of the
social structural variables that influence their consumer socialisation. So, during sample
selection, proportional representation of both genders was ensured. Table 6.1 shows the
distribution of respondents by gender differences.
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Table 6.1 Distribution of Respondents by Gender Differences Gender Frequency Percent (%)
Male 181 49.2
Female 187 50.8
Total 368 100.0
Age group wise there were higher representation (75.3%) of late teenagers (16-19 age
group) then young teenagers (13-15 age groups) who had 24.7% representation. Table
6.2 shows the distribution of respondents by age groups. On the other Table 6.3 shows
the distribution of respondents by academic class (Equivalent to academic year in
Australia). Teenaged respondents were selected from class 5 to class 12 for survey in
this research.
Table 6.2 Distribution of Respondents by Age Groups Age groups Frequency Percent (%)
13-15 91 24.7
16-19 277 75.3
Total 368 100.0
Table 6.3 Distribution of Respondents by Academic Class
Class Frequency Percent (%)
5 1 .3
6 1 .3
7 43 11.7
8 46 12.5
9 118 32.1
10 114 31.0
12 45 12.2
Total 368 100.0
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In this research, social class difference of teenagers has also been considered as one of
the antecedent variables that influence their consumer socialisation. Like gender
distribution, proportional representation of teenagers from the two social classes
considered for this study, e.g., lower and middle was ensured. As reported earlier a total
of 368 valid responses were received in this survey from initial 400 respondents. 185
(50.3%) of these respondents were from lower social class and 183 (49.7) from middle
social class school. Table 6.4 shows the distribution of respondents from the two social
classes.
Table 6.4 Distribution of Respondents List by Social Classes Sample List Number of Respondents Percent (%)
Lower social class 185 50.3
Middle social class 183 49.7
Total 368 100.0
It is already mentioned that teenagers’ social class differences has been measured by
considering their parental education, income, profession and suburbs they live in.
Tables 6.5 to 6.7 below show the distribution of respondents’ parental education,
occupation and income levels by using descriptive statistics and cross tabulation (Chi2).
Teenagers’ parental education was considered as one of the variables to measure
teenagers’ social class. Results, as shown in Table 6.5, there is significance difference
between the education levels of parents of the two social classes. In the lower social
class, teenagers’ fathers’ education mainly fall in between no formal education to
bellow graduation (95%), whereas, in middle social class 75% of the fathers’ are
graduates or above. Similarly, in the lower social class, teenagers’ mothers’ education
mainly fall in between no formal education to bellow graduation (93%), whereas, in
middle social class 59% of the mothers’ are graduates or above.
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Table 6.5 A Cross-Tabulation of Teenagers’ Parents Social Class and Their Education
Father Mother
Level
of education
Lower Social Class Middle Social Class Lower Social Class Middle Social Class
Actual
Count 08 00 07 01
Expected
Count 04 04 04 04
No Formal
Education
% 04 00 04 01
Actual
Count 18 03 29 05
Expected
Count 11 10 17 17
Bellow SSC
% 10 02 16 03
Actual
Count 94 12 106 24
Expected
Count 53 53 66 64
SSC
% 51 07 57 13
Actual
Count 55 29 30 46
Expected
Count 42 42 38 38
HSC
% 30 16 16 25
Actual
Count 10 139 13 107
Expected
Count 75 74 60 60
Graduate &
Above
% 05 75 07 59
Chi-Square 201.876 150.160
df 4 4
Sig .000 .000
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Teenagers’ parental occupation was considered as one of the variables to measure
teenagers’ social class. Results, as shown in Table 6.6, there is significance difference
between parental occupations in the two social classes. In the lower social class, 53%
teenagers’ fathers’ occupation are mainly observed by blue collar jobs and 47% for
white collar as well as others. Whereas, in the middle social class teenagers’ fathers are
mainly involved with white collar jobs (94%). Similarly, in the lower social class,
teenagers’ mothers’ are mainly involved with blue collar jobs and house-hold duties
(91%). Whereas, in middle social class 69% are involved with house-hold duties and
rest (31%), are involved with white collars as well as other jobs.
Table 6.6 A Cross-Tabulation of Teenagers’ Parents Social Class and Their Occupation Father Mother Occupation
Lower Social Class Middle Social Class Lower Social Class Middle Social Class
Actual
Count 04 01 144 127
Expected
Count 03 02 159 147
House Duties
% 02 00 85 69
Actual
Count 92 11 07 00
Expected
Count 52 51 13 07
Blue Collar
Jobs
% 51 06 07 00
Actual
Count 40 118 21 38
Expected
Count 79 79 06 22
White Collar
Jobs
% 22 65 04 22
Actual
Count 49 53 13 18
Expected
Count 51 51 07 12
Others
% 27 29 04 09
Chi-square 104.154 44.684
df 3 3
sig .000 .000
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Teenagers’ parental income was also considered as one of the variables to measure
teenagers’ social class. Results, as shown in Table 6.7, there is significance difference
between parental incomes in the two social classes. Teenagers’ parents in the lower
social class mostly earn less than 70 thousand taka in a year (65%), rest of them 16 %
and 19% earn more than 70 and 90 thousand in a year respectively. Whereas, in the
middle social class (53%) teenagers’ parental income fall above 90 thousand. Further,
21% are observed under 50 thousand in a year and rest of the portion is followed by
other income levels.
Table 6.7 A Cross-Tabulation of Teenagers’ Parents Social Class and Their Annual
Income
Yearly Income
Level (Taka)
Lower Social Class Middle Social Class
Actual
Count 83 39
Expected
Count 61.3 60.7
30-50 Thousand
% 45 21
Actual
Count 37 21
Expected
Count 29.2 28.8
51-70 Thousand
% 20 13
Actual
Count 30 24
Expected
Count 27.1 26.9
71-90
Thousand
% 16 13
Actual
Count 35 99
Expected
Count 67.4 66.6
90 Thousand +
% 19 53
Chi-square 51.507
df 3
sig .000
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Dhaka is one of the fastest growing metropolitan cities in Asia. Urbanisation has been
observed largely in skewed manner. It is very difficult to segregate any particular area
as either lower or middle social class area. The slums areas and expensive suburbs co-
exist in Dhaka city. However, there are no official sampling frames in Dhaka.
Therefore, a city map has been considered to find out lower and middle social class
suburbs, where two schools represent these teenaged respondents from lower and
middle social class.
In the above mentioned tables descriptive statistics followed by cross tabulation shown
clearly that there are significance differences between two social classes on the basis of
teenagers’ parental education, income and occupation.
6.3 Assessment of Measurement Scales
As has been discussed in section 4.2 both exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis
techniques have been used in this research. Exploratory factor analysis has been used to
test dimensionality of data with the aim to produce a set of scale items that reflect a
single underlying domain/ factor or construct. Further confirmatory factor analysis
using SEM program AMOS has been used to gain a more precise estimation of
reliability, and formally test the uni-dimensionality of the scales. SEM has also been
used to test a proposed model that has been developed on the basis of literature review
(Figure 3.2) and qualitative research findings (Table 5.1).
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6.4 Results of Exploratory Factor Analysis
Factor analysis was applied using principal component analysis extraction method. The
most common rule is to base the numbers of factors on the number of eigenvalues
greater than 1 (Zikmand & Babin 2007). However, when a large number of variables
are being factor analysed, many unimportant factors will be associated with eigenvalues
as large as 1.0, making it especially crucial to consider other indicators of the "correct"
solution. Determining the correct number of factors is a matter of balancing
comprehensiveness against parsimony. Further, variables to be included in the factor
analysis should be specified based on past research, theory and judgments of the
researcher (Malhotra 2003). In practice, one is usually happy with a factor solution that
explains 50-75% of the variance in the original variables (Diekhoff 1992). In this case,
the cut off point of eigenvalues of 1.0 gave factor solution that explained 56% of the
variance overall for all the 45 indicators. Another consideration in determining the cut
off point was interpretability of factors. Factors are interpreted by examining their
correlations, called loading. Garver and Mentzer (1999) recommended that variables
with poor factor loadings (less than .50) should be dropped from further analyses. In
addition, Hair et al. (2006) suggested that smaller number of variables (less than 4) that
are unable to make a factor should be dropped from further analysis as well. This
interpretation is often facilitated by factor rotation, the second stage of factor analysis,
in which original factors are redefined. In this research varimax rotation method was
used. Factor loadings of all the underlying constructs were inspected after applying
varimax rotation method.
A total of 45 variables earlier identified through literature review and refined through
qualitative research making those adoptable to a developing country (Table 5.1) were
submitted for the exploratory factor analysis (EFA). Table 6.8 shows the factors
extracted with the variables that explain each of the factors, at this stage. From the
table, number of variables that had poor factor loading (less than .50) and factors with
smaller number of variables (less than 4) were dropped from further analysis. This
included variables cog 6 (opinion of RTV celebrities influences), cog 8 (prefer RTV
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sponsoring brands), att 6 (RTV celebrities are idol), att 7 (teenagers like to have lunch
with celebrity), pc 6 (parents prohibit RTV shows). Moreover, as suggested by Garver
and Mentzer (1999) items with low factor loading (< 0. 50) were eliminated because
they do not converge properly with the latent constructs they were designed to measure.
Further, four variables, val 4 (teenagers request parents for RTV products), val 5
(teenagers request parents for products shown in RTV), val 6 (RTV promote prohibited
items) and att 8 (banning unethical products shown in RTV) were dropped at this stage
as they shown in column 4 and 5 (factor) with two measurement variables each and are
not able to represent independent factor (Hair et al. 2006). Table 6.9 shows the retained
7 factors and there 36 measurement variables for the further analysis. To test reliability
of each set of factors co-efficient Alpha was used. Each retained constructs/factors
achieved more than Alpha .70 as recommended by Hair et al. (2006).
Table 6.8 Factors, Variables and Factor Loading
Variables Factor 1 Factor 2 Factor 3 Factor 4 Factor 5
Product instruction from RTV (cog 3) .816
RTV helps recalling (cog 4) .773
RTV makes aware of brands (cog 2) .715
RTV provides product information (Cog 1) .658
RTV helps market learning (Cog 5) .645
RTV ads provide product ideas (Cog 7) .608
Opinion of RTV celebrities influence (Cog 6) .398
RTV celebrities make fashion conscious
(Att 4)
.737
Fashion tips from RTV (Att 1) .685
Buy cloths shown in RTV (Att 3) .654
RTV develops teenagers’ creativity (Cog 9) .613
Teenagers like celebrities’ good figure (Att 5) .573
Teenagers like product shown in RTV (Att 2) .562
Prefer RTV sponsoring brands (Cog 8) .429
RTV Celebrities are idol (Att 6) .411
MNC brand in RTV (Att 9) .672
Teenagers like newest thing in RTV (Val 1) .664
Teenagers like best thing in RTV (Val 2) .604
Teenagers request for allowance (Val 3) .564
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Teenagers request parents for RTV products
(Val 4)
.854
Teenagers request parents for products shown
in RTV ads (Val5)
.807
Teenagers like to have lunch with celebrity
(Att 7)
.402
RTV promote prohibited items (Val 6) .785
Banning unethical products shown in RTV
(Att 8)
.749
Variables Factor 6 Factor 7 Factor 8 Factor 9
Pay attention to RTV (Inv 2) .752
RTV from news papers (Inv 3) .735
Watch RTV (Inv 1) .726
Watch other programs relate to RTV celebrities (Inv 6)
.582
RTV on web (Inv 9) .766
RTV like real life (Inv 8) .686
Wish to attend RTV (Inv 7) .670
RTV with public appearances (Inv 4) .531
Imagine about RTV shows (Inv 5) .513
Teenagers and parents jointly select RTV
show (pc 2)
.845
Co-viewing at weekends (pc 4)
.800
Co-viewing at weekdays (pc 3)
.743
Teenagers talk to parents about RTV content
(pc 1)
.728
Parents know about RTV (pc 5)
.545
Parents prohibit RTV shows (pc 6)
.254
Teenagers and friend talk about RTV content
(pi 2)
.699
Friends think RTV provide useful
information (pi 4)
.689
Friends think RTV entertaining (pi5)
.686
Talk to friends about RTV shows (pi 1)
.667
Friends watch RTV together (pi 3)
.604
Peers opinion important ( pi 6)
.598
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Next, EFA with, eigenvalue � 1 and varimax rotation was applied separately to each of
the 6 constructs under investigation as suggested by Conway and Huffcutt (2003). The
main purpose of this step is to see whether the measurement items of each constructs
under investigation is uni-dimensional or multi-dimensional. A total of 7 valid factors
representing the 6 constructs with their measurement items were identified at this stage.
Among these, factor 1 clearly indicates six measurement items for consumption related
cognition each with factor loading of more than .50. Further, co-efficient alpha for this
factor is acceptable .81. Factor 2 indicates five of the measurement items of
consumption related attitude variables with co-efficient alpha .81. However, one of the
measurement items of consumption related cognition (cog 9) has shown its loading with
this factor. This is not surprising as theoretically, attitude is an enduring combination of
motivational, emotional, perceptual and cognitive process (Neal, Quester and Hawkins
2004). Accordingly, cog 9 was retained as part of attitude for subsequent analysis.
Similarly, for factor 3, one of the attitude variables ‘att 9’ have loading with rest of the
three measurement items of consumption related values with the co-efficient alpha .75.
This is also theoretically supported as consumption related values as an out-come of
consumer socialisation influence consumers’ attitudes (McCarty & Shrum 1993). This
item was retained as part of values for subsequent analysis.
However, measurement items of RTV involvement created two factors with acceptable
co-efficient alpha value. Factor 4 has four items of involvement each with factor
loading more than .50 that strongly relate to the domain of attention towards RTV. Co-
efficient alpha of this factor was .71. Whereas, factor 5 relating to the domain of desire
to getting involved with RTV has 5 variables with factor loading of more than .50. This
factor has the co-efficient alpha of .70.
Factors 6 and 7 were extracted as expected on the basis of previous literature and
qualitative studies. Factor 6 confirmed all the five measurement items of parental
control each with factor loading of more than .50 and factor co-efficient alpha .81.
Factor 7, has 6 items of peer group influences each with factor loading of more than .50
and factor co-efficient alpha .76.
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Using the eigenvalue grater than 2 the variance explained by the extracted factors
ranges from 45.43% to 58.12%, while factor loadings are all above of the threshold of
.50, except 2 factors. If eigenvalue is taken as 1 then variances of all factors fall above
the threshold level. Further, uni-dimensionality of six factors is measured in this stage.
Uni-dimensionality is defined as the existence of one construct underlying a set of items
(Garver & Mentzer 1999). It is the degree to which a set of items represent one and only
one underlying construct. In this study only RTV involvement is multi-dimensional at
EFA stage as most of its measurement items strongly related to two measurement
domains such as attention towards RTV and desire towards RTV. However, the current
RTV involvement literature shows these two domains are part of the single construct
(Perse 1998; Pecheux & Derbiax 2002; Yoon & Garma 2006). Further, as suggested by
Tabachnick and Fidell (2001) that the SEM model has to be driven by theory rather than
survey data. If substantive theory suggests any variable or a relationship should be
included in a model, as well as it should be left there even if it does not contribute to the
over all fit of the model (Joreskog & Sorbom 1993). Also a test was run combining
these 2 factors (4, 5) as measurement items of RTV involvement shows .77 co-efficient
alpha. Therefore, in the subsequent analysis stage these measurement items are
considered as common items for the underlying construct, RTV involvement. After
establishing that these scales are uni-dimensional, the reliability of the composite score
was assessed. As shown in Table 6.9, Co-efficient alpha of all the 7 retained factors are
.70 or above. Further, the item-total co-relation values range from .513 to .841 and are
all above the required threshold of .50. All items comprising these 6 factors were
therefore retained for subsequent analysis. Table 6.9 shows the retained factors and their
measurement variables and factor loadings.
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Table 6.9 Retained Factors, Variables and Factor Loading
Measurement
Items
Factor
Loading
% Variance
Extracted
Eigenvalue Co-efficient
Alpha
Inter-item
Correlation
Cognition Cog 3
Cog 4
Cog 2
Cog 1
Cog 5
Cog 7
.816
.773
.715
.658
.645
.608
56.18
3. 37
. 81
.719
.747
.819
.787
.706
.711 Attitude Att 4
Att 1
Att 3
Cog 9
Att 5
Att 2
.737
.685
.654
.613
.573
. 562
52.03 3. 12
. 81 .779
.725
.732
.774
.647
.688 Values Att 9
Val 1
Val 2
Val 3
.672
.664
.604
.564
58.12 2. 32 . 75
.823
.774
.715
.727
Involvement (Attention)
Inv 2
Inv 3
Inv 1
Inv 6
.752 .735
.726
.582
53. 72
2. 14
.71
.579
.622
.595
.653
Involvement (Desire)
Inv 9
Inv 8
Inv 7
Inv 4
Inv 5
.766
.686
.670
.531
.513
45. 43
2. 27
.70
.598
.629
.685
.513
.561
Parental Control Pc 2
Pc 4
Pc 3
Pc 1
Pc 5
.845
.800
.743
.728
.545
57. 96
2. 89
.81
.748
.841
.771
.816
.603
Peers’ Influences Pi 2
Pi 4
Pi 5
Pi 1
Pi 3
Pi 6
.699
.689
.686
.667
.604
.598
46. 62
2. 80
.76
.721
.649
.643
.712
.677
.680
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To assess and refine the measurement scales in terms of reliability, uni-dimensionality
and validity, there are two main approaches like; exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and
confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) are commonly used in the literature (Hurley et al.
1997). The issue on which type of factor analysis (e.g., EFA or CFA) to use in a
particular situation is the subject of a debate among organizational researchers (Hurley
et al. 1997). EFA is often considered to be more appropriate than CFA in the early
stages of scale development because CFA does not indicates how well the item load on
the non-hypothesised factors (Kelloway 1995). However, the majority of researchers
agree that EFA is more appropriate for scale development/refinement and CFA is for
scale validation. Hurley et al. (1997) mentioned that “EFA may be appropriate for scale
development while CFA would be preferred where measurement models have a well-
developed underlying theory for hypothesized patterns of loadings. A line of research
would start out with studies utilising EFA, while later work would show what can be
confirmed” (p. 668).
The current research employed a combination of both EFA and CFA to form two-phase
approaches. The first phase involved employing EFA for scale assessment and
refinement and the second phase involves employing CFA for scale validation (Fabrigar
et al. 1999)
6.5 Measurement Model Evaluation and Specification
In this section different measures for SEM model evaluation have been discussed. There
are two stages in this step: a) deciding on the goodness-of-fit criteria and b) testing the
measurement model fit.
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6.5.1 Deciding Goodness of Fit Criteria
Two details were considered in evaluating both measurement models and structural
models: their uni-dimensionality and their fit. In this research, both coefficient alpha
and standardized regression weights were used to measure uni-dimensionality of
measurement models. Further, a variety of goodness-of-fit indices was used in this
research because no single or particular statistical test of significance identifies a correct
model from the sample data (Byrne 2001; Maruyama 1998). Therefore, the assessment
of model fit for this research was based on multiple criteria; they are summarised in
Table 6.10.
Table 6.10 Summary of Reliability, Weights, and Fit Indices Used in this Research
Name Abbreviation Type Accepted Level
in this
Research
Goodness-of-fit model of this study
Coefficient Alpha
Standard
regression weight
�
Beta
Uni-
dimensionality
� > 0.60 adequate
� >0.40
� 0.75 – 0.81 � 0.392 - .737
Chi-square (with
associated degrees
of freedom and
probability of
significantly
different)
X2 (df,,p)
Model fit P>0.05 (at �
equals to 0.05
level)
0.000
Normed chi-
square
X2�df Absolute fit and
model persimony
1.0< X2/df/ <5.0 2.010
Root mean square
error of
approximation
RMSEA
Absolute fit
<0.08
.052
Goodness-of-fit
index
Adjusted
Goodness-of-fit
GFI
AGFI
Absolute Values close to
0.9and above
indicate
satisfactory fit
.845 .824
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index
Normed fit index
Tucker Lewis fit
index
Comparative fit
index
NFI
TLI
CFI
Incremental fit Values above 0.8
and close 0.9
indicate
acceptable fit
.773 .861 .870
HOELTER >200 critical value 201 Source: Developed from Baumgartner and Homburg (1996), Byrne (2001), Carmines and McIver (1981),
Hair et al. (1998), Hulland, Chow and lam (1996), Kline (1998), Holmes-Smith (2002).
Co-efficient alpha measures the internal consistency reliability, which is the average of
all possible split-half coefficients resulting from different splitting of the scale items
(Malhotra 2003). Chi-square is the only measure that has a direct statistical test as to its
significance and it forms the basis for many other goodness-of-fit measures (Hair et al.
2006). Normed Chi-square refers to Chi-square divided by degrees of freedom that
indicates an acceptable fit between the hypothetical model and the sample data
(Carmines & McIver 1981). The Chi-square value should not be significant if there is a
good model fit (Garson 2009). However, Chi-square P is considered as conservative
measure of goodness of fit (prone to type two error), that is why many researchers who
use SEM with reasonable sample size (e.g., > 200) determine acceptability of fit using
goodness-of-fit measures like NFI, CFI and RMSEA (Garson 2009). As an absolute fit
indicator that attempts to correct the tendency of the goodness fit test statistics to reject
models with a large samples or a large number of observed variables is the root mean
square error of approximation (RMSEA) (Hair et al. 2006). Goodness-of-fit index (GFI)
was also an early attempt to produce a fit statistics is still indirectly sensitive to sample
size due to the effect of N on sampling distribution. Whereas, adjusted good-ness-of-fit
index tries to take in to account differing degrees of model flexibility. It does by
adjusting GFI by a ratio of the degrees of freedom used in a model to the total degrees
of freedom available (Hair et al. 2006). The normed fit index (NFI) is one of the
original incremental fit indices. It is a ratio of the differences in the X2 value for the
fitted model and a null model divided by the X2 value for the null model. Comparative
fit index (CFI) is an incremental fit index that is an improved version of normal fit
index. Tucker Lewis Index (TLI) predates the CFI and is conceptually similar in that it
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also involves a mathematical comparison of a specified theoretical measurement model
and a baseline null model (Hair et al. 2006). At last HOELTER’s critical N for
significance level of .05 is 200 and more. The Table 6.10 also indicates the cut-off
points that are followed in this study.
6.5.2 Testing the Measurement Model Fit
Not only the above mentioned criteria but also other standard estimates associated with
the evaluation of CFA models were used in this study. The following Table 6.11
provides a summary of these criteria used in this analysis. Each of these model
evaluation criteria will be discussed next.
Table 6.11 Summary of Standardised Estimates used for CFA Models (Holmes-Smith
2002)
Standardised Estimates Value Criteria
Factor loading >0.7 good, >0.5 acceptable
Covariance (cr) > 1.96
Variable reliability good >0.3
Firstly, standardised factor loading (or standard regression weight in SEM output)
should have value greater than 0.5 to show a good association between the factor and
variable (Churchill jr. 1979; Holmes-Smith 2002). Secondly, covariance of two
variables is the estimate of amount of correlation between two variables because some
unmeasured latent variable may influence both variables (Schumacker & Lomax 1996).
Critical ratio (cr) of the estimate should be greater than 1.96 for the factor loading or
variance that it is estimating. In this research, the covariance was considered significant
if the critical ratio (cr) of the measure is greater than 1.96 (Byrne 2001; Holmes-Smith
2002). Finally, variable reliability is the squared multiple correlation for the observed
variables and reflected how well the variable measures the underlying latent trait. For
this research variable reliability was considered acceptable if above 0.3 (Holmes-Smith
2002).
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6.6 Assessment of Measurement Scales Using CFA
Traditional approaches such as Co-efficient Alpha and EFA are useful for the
assessment and refinement of measurement scale items. However, they just serve as
first round tools (Hair et al. 2006). In the confirmatory approach, it is necessary to
employ confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) (Garver & Mentzer 1999; Hurley et al.
1997). Hurley et al. (1997, p. 674) also mentioned that “EFA provides important
diagnostics which should be considered along with the results of CFA in judging scale
and its items”. This is because CFA provides a test of hypotheses about population
factor structures based on sample data e.g., relationship of the construct with its
measures; while EFA attempts to describe, reduce data to make them easily understood
(Hurley et al. 1997).
To be more specific, for this research fitting CFA models to large data sets served few
functions. First, and foremost, a fitted CFA model allowed large number of observed
variables to be reduced to single composite scale, thus reducing the number of variables
in subsequent structural equation model. In turn, fitting a CFA model allowed for
differences in the degree to which each individual measure contributes to the over all
composite scale. That is CFA models provided a more realistic representation of the
data (Fleishman & Benson 1987). Secondly, CFA models are also considered to be
sufficiently constrained to represent good measurement properties. Finally, the fit
statistic for the CFA model was a quasi test of validity.
However, the method of using a series of one-factor CFA models to reduce large data
set down to a manageable level has a disadvantage. The procedure can lead to potential
loss of information in the measurement part of the model when only the composite
variables are used in structural equation models (Holmes-Smith & Rowe 1994). To
keep balance, the advantages of CFA modelling outweigh its disadvantages.
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In short, this research used confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to purify the initial
measures and test for the internal consistency of the scale items. In this research EFA
were used to reduce 45 observed variables (Table 6.8) down to smaller number 36
variables (Table 6.9) which were then used for CFA. Table 6.12 shows the list of 36
variables that were tested using CFA. CFA is similar to EFA in some respects, but
philosophically it is quite different. Instead of allowing the statistical method to
determine the number of factors and loading as in EFA, CFA statistics tell us how well
our specification of the factor matches reality (the actual data). In a sense, CFA is a tool
that enables us to either confirm or reject preconceived theory (Hair et al. 2006). The
highest number of composite variables in any one factor CFA was nine and minimum
was four. Six composite variables were used in the structural models that investigated
the interrelationships amongst these composites. The sample size of 368 was sufficient
for parameter estimation and model fitting.
Table 6.12 List of Variables
Variables I watch RTV I pay close attention when I watch RTV I read about RTV in news papers I would attend a public appearance if my favorite RTV character from the show were there I imagine how I would act in a similar situation shown on RTV I watch other programs that include contestants from the RTV show I wish I could be on RTV shows RTV is just like real life I wish I could watch RTV on web RTV provides me a lot of information RTV make me aware about particular brands I understand product usage instruction from RTV RTV helps me to recall about certain products RTV is a good way to learn about what products/bands are available in market Advertisements shown in RTV gives me new product ideas RTV makes me creative to do some thing new (e.g., makeup, hair style) I get fashion tips from RTV I like the product shown on RTV I often buy clothing styles that I have seen in RTV My favorite RTV celebrities make me fashion conscious I want to get good figure like RTV celebrities (e.g. slimmer, muscular) I prefer to buy multinational brands if is shown by RTV I like to own the newest things shown on RTV I like to own the best things shown on RTV It is better to have more allowance from parents to buy the brand shown on RTV I talk to my parents about RTV content My parents and I discuss about RTV show selection My parents and I watch RTV on weekdays
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My parents and I watch RTV during weekends My parents know what I watch on RTV I talk to my friends about the RTV shows My friends and I talk about content of RTV shows (e.g., entertainment, sex, information) My friends and I watch often RTV together My friends think the content of RTV shows can provide useful information My friends think content of RTV are entertaining My peers’ opinions on RTV shows are important to me
6.6.1 CFA results of Parental Control
The first latent variable, parental control was measured by five observed variables. The
structure of this measurement model is presented in Figures 6.1 scale items that
measured the parental control are adopted from current literature and refined through
qualitative research. Further, the following scales items are tested through EFA relating
to different domains of scale items have distinct meaning for measuring ‘parental
control’. The results of CFA of the measurement items of the ‘parental control’ are
summarised in Table 6.13.
Figure 6.1 CFA Model of Parental Control
Parental
control
pc 5e 5
1
1
pc 4e 4
1
pc 3e 3
1
pc 2e 2
1
pc 1e 1
1
Table 6.13 Regression Weights of Parental Control
Regression Weights Estimate S.E. C.R. P
value
Parents know about RTV <--- 1.000
Teenagers talk to parents about RTV content <--- 1.608 .212 7.571 0.000
Co-viewing at weekdays <--- 1.690 .218 7.767 0.000
Co-viewing at weekends <--- 1.750 .217 8.077 0.000
Teenagers and parents jointly select RTV show <--- 1.968 .242 8.117 0.000
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The Table 6.13 of regression weight refers to the un-standardised parameter estimates
for the factor loadings. No critical ratios (t-values) are stated for the respective first
factor loadings of parental control and Parents know about RTV were fixed to unity to
scale the latent variables. All remaining factor loading were significant.
Table 6.14 Standard Regression Weights, Goodness-of-Fits Estimates and Composite
Reliability of the Parental Control
Standardised Regression Weights
Parental Control
Estimate Composite Reliability
Parents know about RTV <--- .447
Teenagers talk to parents about RTV content
<--- .673
Co-viewing at weekdays <--- .718
Co-viewing at weekends <--- .766 Teenagers and parents jointly select RTV show
<---
.827
.88
Reliability-Co-efficient alpha � 0.81
Chi-square 16.543
Degree of freedom 5
P .005
Normed Chi-square (CMIN/df) 3.309
Root mean square of error of estimation (RMSEA) .079
Goodness of fit index (GFI) .983
Adjusted of goodness-of-fit index (AGFI) .948
Normed fit index (NFI) .974
Tucker-Lewis Index (TLI) .963
Comparative fir index (CFI) .981
In the Table 6.14 shows that the coefficient alpha for the ‘parental control’ of CFA
model is 0.81 indicating that the variables are reasonable measures of ‘parental control’.
Only one variable ‘pc 6’ was dropped at this stage due to poor factor loading (Garver &
Mentzer 1999). Results suggest that three of the variables have a standardized
regression weight of more than 0.7 and others are more than 0.5 indicating a good fit for
those items. Goodness-of-fit indices also indicate that the model fitted data well, with
the GFI, AGFI, NFI, TLI, RMSEA and CFI all within acceptable level of criteria.
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Composite reliability .88 also indicates the reliability the underlying variables of
‘parental control’.
However, Chi-square P value .005 does not satisfy the threshold requirement of greater
than .05. However, as mentioned earlier chi-square P is considered as conservative
measure of goodness-of-fit (prone to type two error), that is why many researchers who
use SEM with reasonable sample size (e.g., > 200) determine acceptability of fit using
goodness-of-fit measures like NFI, CFI and RMSEA (Garson 2009), which will be
followed to report rest of the CFA results in this research.
6.6.2 CFA results of Peer Group Influences
Peer group influences were measured by six observed variables. The structure of this
measurement model is presented in Figures 6.2 scale items that measured the ‘peer
group influences’ are adopted from current literature and refined through qualitative
research. Further, the following scale items are tested through EFA relating to different
domains of scale items have distinct meaning for measuring ‘parental control’. The
results of CFA of the measurement items of the ‘peer group influences’ are summarised
in Table 6.15.
Figure 6.2 CFA Model of Peer Group Influences
Peers'
Influences
pi 6e 6
1
1pi 5e 5
1pi 4e 4
1pi 3e 3
1pi 2e 2
1pi 1e 1
1
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Table 6.15 Regression Weights of Peer Group Influences
Regression Weights Estimate
S.E. C.R. P value
Peers opinion important <--- 1.000
Friends watch RTV together <--- .926 .122 7.575 0.000
Talk to friends about RTV shows <--- 1.013 .114 8.861 0.000
Friends think RTV entertaining <--- .949 .109 8.694 0.000
Friends think RTV provide useful information <--- 1.059 .113 9.359 0.000
Teenagers and friend talk about RTV content <--- .953 .128 7.456 0.000
The Table 6.15 of regression weight refers to the unstandardised parameter estimates
for the factor loadings. No critical ratios (t-values) are stated for the respective first
factor loadings of peer group influences and peers opinions important were fixed to
unity to scale the latent variables. All remaining factor loading were significant.
Table 6.16 Standard Regression Weights, Goodness-of-Fits Estimates and Composite
Reliability of the Peer Group Influences
Reliability-Co-efficient alpha � 0.76 Chi-Square 38.764 Degree of freedom 9 P .000 Normed Chi-Square (CMIN/DF) 4.307 Root mean square of error of estimation (RMSEA) .095
Goodness of fit index (GFI) .965
Adjusted of goodness-of-fit index (AGFI) .919
Normed fit index (NFI) .921
Tucker-Lewis Index (TLI) .896
Comparative fir index (CFI) .938
Standardised Regression Weights
Peer group Influences Estimate
Composite Reliability
Peers opinion important <--- .599 Friends watch RTV together
<--- .500
Talk to friends about RTV shows
<--- .634
Friends think RTV entertaining
<--- .648
Friends think RTV provide useful information
<--- .697
Teenagers and friend talk about RTV content
<---
.510
.92
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In the Table 6.16 The coefficient Alpha for the ‘peer group influences’ of CFA model is
0.76 indicating that the variables are reasonable measure of ‘peer group influences’.
None of the variables’ standard regression weights were less that 0.5. Further, goodness
–of-fit indices also indicates that the model fitted data well, with GFI, AGFI, NFI, TLI,
RMSEA and CFI all within acceptable level of criteria. Composite reliability .92 also
indicates the reliability the underlying variables of ‘peer group influences’.
6.6.3 CFA results of RTV Involvement
RTV involvement was measured by nine observed variables. The structure of this
measurement model is presented in Figures 6.3. Measurement items that measured the
‘RTV Involvement’ are adopted from current literature and refined through qualitative
research. Further, the items were tested using EFA. However, at the EFA stage ‘RTV
Involvement’ reflected in to two different factors relating to the domain of ‘attention’
and ‘desire’ towards RTV but at the CFA stage these two factors have been considered
as a common factor of ‘RTV Involvement’ construct as they are strongly supported by
the existing literature as one construct. The results of CFA of the measurement items of
the ‘RTV Involvement’ are summarised in Table 6.17.
Figure 6.3 CFA Model of RTV Involvement
RTV
Involvement
inv 1 e1
1
1
inv 2 e2
1
inv 3 e3
1
inv 4 e4
1
inv 5 e5
1
inv 6 e6
1
inv 7 e7
1
inv 8 e8
1
inv 9 e9
1
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Table 6.17 Regression Weights of RTV Involvement
Regression Weights Estimate S.E. C.R. P value
Pay attention to RTV 1.000
RTV from news papers <--- 1.069 .135 7.909 0.000 Watch RTV <--- .912 .114 7.988 0.000 Watch other programs relate to RTV celebrities
<--- 1.132 .133 8.486 0.000
Wish to attend RTV <--- .900 .140 6.422 0.000 RTV like real life <--- .695 .111 6.269 0.000 Wish to attend RTV <--- 1.236 .149 8.289 0.000 RTV with public appearances <--- 1.049 .144 7.292 0.000 Imagine about RTV shows <--- 1.050 .132 7.955 0.000
The Table 6.17 of regression weight refers to the un-standardised parameter estimates
for the factor loadings. No critical ratios (t-values) are stated for the respective first
factor loadings of RTV involvement and pay attention to RTV were fixed to unity to
scale the latent variables. All remaining factor loading were significant.
Table 6.18 Standard Regression Weights, Goodness-of-Fits Estimates and Composite
Reliability of the RTV Involvement
Standardised Regression Weights
RTV Involvement
Estimate
Composite Reliability
Pay attention to RTV <--- .577
RTV from news papers <--- .528 Watch RTV <--- .520 Watch other programs relate to RTV celebrities
<--- .619
Wish to attend RTV <--- .443 RTV like real life <--- .423 Wish to attend RTV <--- .636
RTV with public appearances
.503
Imagine about RTV shows <---
.567
.90
Reliability-Cronbach alpha � 0.78 Chi-Square 105.914 Degree of freedom 27 P .000 Normed Chi-Square (CMIN/DF) 3.923 Root mean square residual (RMR) .259
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Standardised Regression Weights
RTV Involvement
Estimate
Composite Reliability
Root mean square of error of estimation (RMSEA) .089
Goodness of fit index (GFI) .931
Adjusted of goodness-of-fit index (AGFI) .885
Normed fit index (NFI) .845
Tucker-Lewis Index (TLI) .837
Comparative fir index (CFI) .878
In the Table 6.18, coefficient alpha for the RTV involvement of CFA model is .78,
indicating that the variables are a reasonable measure of RTV involvement. Results
show that all the nine items except two have standardized regression weight more than
0.5. Moreover, goodness-of-fit indices also indicate that the model fitted data well, with
GFI, AGFI, NFI, TLI, RMSEA and CFI all within acceptable level of criteria.
Composite reliability .90 also indicates the reliability the underlying variables of ‘RTV
Involvement’.
6.6.4 CFA results of Consumption Related Cognition
Consumption related cognition was measured by six observed variables. The structure
of this measurement model is presented in Figures 6.4. Scale items that measured the
‘consumption related cognition’ are adopted from current literature and refined through
qualitative research. Further, the following scales items are tested through EFA relating
to different domains of scale items have distinct meaning for measuring ‘consumption
related cognition’. The results of CFA of the measurement items of the ‘consumption
related cognition’ are summarised in Table 6.19.
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Figure 6.4 CFA Model of Consumption Related Cognition
Consumption
related
cognition
cog 1 e1
1
1
cog 2 e2
1
cog 3 e3
1
cog 4 e4
1
cog 5 e5
1
cog 6 e6
1
Table 6.19 Regression Weights of Consumption Related Cognition
Regression Weights Estimate S.E. C.R. P value
Product instruction from RTV <--- 1.000
RTV helps recalling <--- .993 .066 15.127 0.000
RTV makes aware of brands <--- .845 .063 13.337 0.000
RTV provides product information <--- .778 .063 12.442 0.000
RTV helps market learning <--- .732 .065 11.210 0.000
RTV ads provide product ideas <--- .761 .067 11.316 0.000
The Table 5.19 of regression weight refers to the un-standardised parameter estimates
for the factor loadings. No critical ratios (t-values) are stated for the respective first
factor loadings of cognition and product instruction from RTV were fixed to unity to
scale the latent variables. All remaining factor loading were significant.
Table 6.20 Standard Regression Weights, Goodness- of- Fit Estimates and Composite Reliability of the Consumption Related Cognition
Standardised Regression Weights
Consumption Related Cognition
Estimate Composite Reliability
Product instruction from RTV <--- .823
RTV helps recalling <--- .755
RTV makes aware of brands <--- .686
RTV provides product information <--- .644
RTV helps market learning <---
.602
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Standardised Regression Weights
Consumption Related Cognition
Estimate Composite Reliability
RTV ads provide product ideas <--- .606
Reliability-Co-efficient alpha � 0.81 Chi-Square 16.730 Degree of freedom 9 P .053 Normed Chi-Square (CMIN/DF) 1.859 Root mean square of error of estimation (RMSEA) .048
Goodness of fit index (GFI) .985
Adjusted of goodness-of-fit index (AGFI) .965
Normed fit index (NFI) .979
Tucker-Lewis Index (TLI) .983
Comparative fir index (CFI) .990
The coefficient alpha for the consumption related cognition of CFA model is 0.81 in the
Table 6.20 indicating that the variables are a reasonable measure of level of
consumption related cognition. However, couple of the measurement items, ‘cog 6’ and
‘cog 8’, were dropped at this stage due to poor factor loadings. Table 6.20 shows that
standard regression weights of all the variables were more than 0.5 with some are even
more than 0.7. Goodness-of-fit indices also indicate that the model fitted data well with
value GFI, AGFI, NFI, TLI, RMSEA and CFI all within acceptable level of criteria.
Composite reliability .96 also indicates the reliability the underlying variables of
‘consumption related cognition’.
6.6.5 CFA results of Consumption Related Attitude
Consumption related attitude was measured by six observed variables. The structure of
this measurement model is presented in Figures 6.5. Scale items that measured the
‘consumption related attitude’ are adopted from current literature and refined through
qualitative research. Further, the following scales items are tested through EFA relating
to different domains of scale items have distinct meaning for measuring ‘consumption
related attitude’. The results of CFA of the measurement items of the ‘consumption
related attitude’ are summarised in Table 6.21.
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Figure 6.5 CFA Model of Consumption Related Attitude
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Regression Weights Estimate S.E. C.R. P value
RTV celebrities make fashion conscious <--- 1.000
Fashion tips from RTV <--- .943 .083 11.407 0.000
Buy cloths shown in RTV <--- .995 .085 11.643 0.000
RTV develops teenagers’ creativity <--- .826 .083 9.981 0.000
Teenagers like celebrities’ good figure <--- .777 .085 9.125 0.000
Teenagers like product shown in RTV <--- .869 .075 11.635 0.028
The Table 6.21 of regression weight refers to the un-standardised parameter estimates
for the factor loadings. No critical ratios (t-values) are stated for the respective first
factor loadings of consumption related attitude and RTV celebrities make fashion
conscious were fixed to unity to scale the latent variables. All remaining factor loading
were significant.
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Table 6.22 Standard Regression Weights, Goodness-of-fits Estimates and Composite
Reliability of the Consumption Related Attitude
Standardised Regression Weights
Consumption Related Attitude
Estimate Composite Reliability
RTV celebrities make fashion
conscious <--- .741
Fashion tips from RTV <--- .693
Buy cloths shown in RTV <--- .667
RTV develops teenagers’ creativity <--- .595
Teenagers like celebrities’ good figure <--- .521
Teenagers like product shown in RTV <---
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Reliability-Co-efficient alpha � 0.81 Chi-Square 17.851 Degree of freedom 9 P .037 Normed Chi-Square (CMIN/DF) 1.983 Root mean square of error of estimation (RMSEA) .052
Goodness of fit index (GFI) .984
Adjusted of goodness-of-fit index (AGFI) .963
Normed fit index (NFI) .972
Tucker-Lewis Index (TLI) .976
Comparative fir index (CFI) .986
The coefficient alpha for the consumption related attitude of CFA model is 0.81, shown
in the Table 6.22 indicating that the variables are a reasonable measure of consumption
related attitude. However, couple of the measurement items, ‘att 6’ and ‘att 7’, were
dropped at this stage due to poor factor loadings as well as ‘att 7’ was dropped not
qualify to represent a factor (Hair et al. 2006). Further, one of the measurement items of
consumption related cognition ‘cog 9’ shows loading with consumption related attitude
shown at Table 6.9 as have got theoretical supports. Table 6.22 shows that standard
regression weight of all the scale items are clearly more than 0.5. Goodness-of-fit
indices also indicate that the model fitted data well with GFI, AGFI, NFI, TLI, RMSEA
and CFI all within acceptable level of criteria. Composite reliability .94 also indicates
the reliability the underlying variables of ‘consumption related attitude’.
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6.6.6 CFA results of Consumption Related Values
Consumption related values were measured by four observed variables. The structure of
this measurement model is presented in Figures 6.6. Scale items that measured the
‘consumption related values’ are adopted from current literature and refined through
qualitative research. Further, the following scales items are tested through EFA relating
to different domains of scale items have distinct meaning for measuring ‘consumption
related values’. The results of CFA of the measurement items of the ‘consumption
related values’ are summarised in Table 6.23.
Figure 6.6 CFA Model of Consumption Related Values
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Table 6.23 Regression Weights of Consumption Related Values
Regression Weights Estimate S.E. C.R. P values
MNC brand in RTV <--- 1.000
Teenagers like newest thing in RTV <--- 1.508 .154 9.802 0.000
Teenagers like best thing in RTV <--- 1.270 .128 9.961 0.000
Teenagers request for allowance <--- 1.011 .132 7.683 0.000
The Table 6.23 of regression weight refers to the unstandardised parameter estimates
for the factor loadings. No critical ratios (t-values) are stated for the respective first
factor loadings of consumption related values and MNC brand in RTV were fixed to
unity to scale the latent variables. All remaining factor loading were significant.
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Table 6.24 Standard Regression Weights, Goodness-of-Fit Estimates and Composite
Reliability of the Consumption Related Values
Standardised Regression Weight
Consumption Related Values
Estimate
Composite Reliability
MNC brand in RTV <--- .591
Teenagers like newest thing in
RTV <--- .833
Teenagers like best thing in RTV <--- .736
Teenagers request for allowance <---
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Reliability-Co-efficient alpha � .75 Chi-Square 3.277 Degree of freedom 2 P .194 Normed Chi-Square (CMIN/DF)
1.639
Root mean square of error of
estimation (RMSEA)
.042
Goodness of fit index (GFI) .996
Adjusted of goodness-of-fit
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Normed fit index (NFI) .991
Tucker-Lewis Index (TLI) .990
Comparative fir index (CFI) .997
The coefficient alpha for the consumption related values of CFA model is 0.75 in the
above mentioned Table 6.24, indicating that the variables are a reasonable measure of
consumption related values. However, number of the measurement items, ‘val 4’ and
‘val 5’, and ‘val 6’ were dropped at this stage as they are unable to represent a factor
(Hair et al. 2006). Further, one of the variables of consumption related attitude ‘att 9’
shows loading with consumption related values shown at Table 6.9 have got theoretical
supports. Table 6.24 shows that standard regression weights of all four variables are
more than 0.5. Goodness-of-fit indices also indicate that the model fitted data well, with
the P value, GFI, AGFI, NFI, TLI, RMSEA and CFI all within acceptable level of
criteria. Composite reliability .92 also indicates the reliability the underlying variables
of ‘consumption related values’.
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6.7 Reliability and Validity of Constructs
Before testing the full model in relation to the research proposition; the final and next
step was to examine theoretical constructs of the model for reliability and validity.
Reliability is the degree to which measures are free from random error, that is,
systematic error does not affect reliability because it implies on measurement in a
consistent way, whereas random error produces inconsistency in measurement and
lower reliability (Malhotra 2003). Thus reliable measures of unobservable theoretical
constructs assist researchers in obtaining a clear picture of true relationships between
variables whereas random errors tend to minimize relationships. Whereas, validity is the
ability of a construct’s indicators to measure accurately the construct, that is, whether a
variable measures what it is supposed to measure (Hair et al. 1998; Malhotra 2003).
Both reliability and validity were considered in this research using SEM, because in
contrast to the limitations of traditional assessment techniques, SEM allows researchers
to examine the effects of latent variables on observed variables and partition error
variance in the observed variables (Baumgartner & Homburg 1996; Bollen 1989).
6.7.1 Reliability
Reliability of this research’s instrument was checked to assure that it was free from
random error and to provide consistent results (Malhotra 2003). In this research four
approaches were considered: split-sample, test-retest, alternative forms, and internal
comparison method (Carmines & Zeller 1979) and the fourth approach were chosen.
The first two approaches require that the same test is given to the same group of people
in a different period and this method has not been considered due to time and budget
constraints. The third approach requires a larger sample than this study to examine the
differences between correlations of the first and second halves of the sample and the
correlation of even and odd items (Zikmund 2000). In this research, the fourth approach
was applied to administrate a single test of scale and item reliability (Carmines & Zeller
1979). Furthermore, composite reliability has been assessed of the scale items in this
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research. Reliability has been evaluated in CFA using the composite reliability.
Composite reliability is a better indicator than Co-efficient Alpha because it is free from
the assumption of equal item reliabilities (Anderson & Gerbing 1988; Hair et al. 1998).
Composite reliability of variable is calculated by the following (Hair et al. 1998):
Composite reliability =( � standardized loading) 2 / ( � standardized loading) 2 = � € j).
6.7.2 Reliability of Constructs
At first, the coefficient alpha, one of the most commonly used statistics, was used to
assess the reliability of the measuring scales with multiple items (Malhotra 2003). It
indicates the degree of consistency of the observed variables (Carmines & Zeller 1979).
In exploratory research such as this research, modest reliability is recommended where
Coefficient alpha 0.5 and above indicates satisfactory internal consistency reliability
(Hair et al. 1998; Malhotra 2003). In this research, as shown in Table 6.25, co-efficient
alpha of all the variables of underlying constructs are quite high more than .70
indicating good reliability of the scales.
Table 6.25 Construct Reliability of Scale Items
Variables Original Reliability
Parental control 0.81
Peers group Influences 0.76
RTV involvement 0.77
Consumption related cognition 0.81
Consumption related attitude 0.81
Consumption related values 0.75
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6.7.3 Item Reliability
Item reliability was assessed through squared multiple correlation coefficients (SMCs)
for the observed or measured variables, where the measured variables are the dependent
variable and the latent variable is the independent variable (Bollen 1989; Tabachnick &
Fidell 2001). Each SMC is interpreted as the reliability of the measured variable, and as
the proportion of variance in the measured variable that is accounted for by the latent
variable. An SMC of › 0.3 correspondents to an� error variance that exceeds the
variation in the measured variable explained by the latent variable (Byrne 2001;
Holmes-Smith 2002). Table 6.26 shows the SMCs for the variables in the main model.
Table 6.26 Multiple Correlation Coefficients
Variables Estimate Talk to friends about RTV shows .238
Friends think RTV provide useful information .484
Friends think RTV entertaining .408
Teenagers and friend talk about RTV content .404
Friends watch RTV together .260
Peers opinion important .382
Teenagers and parents jointly select RTV show .670
Co-viewing at weekends .596
Co-viewing at weekdays .521
Teenagers talk to parents about RTV content .452
Parents know about RTV .199
Imagine about RTV shows .269
RTV with public appearances .217
Wish to attend RTV .322
RTV like real life .206
RTV on web .194
Watch other programs relate to RTV .318
Watch RTV .239
RTV from news papers .235
Pay attention to RTV .272
Teenagers request for allowance .248
Teenagers like best thing in RTV .517
Teenagers like newest thing in RTV .653
MNC brand in RTV .379
Teenagers like product shown in RTV .497
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Variables Estimate Teenagers like celebrities’ good figure .258
RTV develops teenagers’ creativity .355
Buy cloths shown in RTV .407
Fashion tips from RTV .458
RTV celebrities makes fashion conscious .494
RTV ads provide products ideas .372
RTV helps market learning .364
RTV provides product information .448
RTV makes aware of brands .454
RTV helps recalling .528
Product instruction from RTV .616 Overall, Table 6.26 shows that there is good item reliability for the observed variables.
No more than 12 of the 36 variables have square multiple correlation (SMCs) less than
0.3. As it is mentioned already, most of scale items in this research were adopted from
other researches and some of them are established for the first time in the context of
consumer socialisation through reality TV in a developing country. However, most of
the scale items in these latent variables have good item reliability because the items
were carefully adopted and developed from extensive literature review and refined
through qualitative research (Table 5.1), it will be accepted for this research but with
caution about its applicability in later research (Rao 2002).
6.7.4 Validity
Convergent validity is a measure of construct validity (Malhotra 2003) and is the extent
to which a measure of some characteristic correlates or converges with other measures
of the same characteristic (Aasker, Kumar & Day 2001). Convergent validity of a
measure is the degree to which multiple attempts to measure the same construct are in
agreement (Hair et al. 1998). It is achieved if 1) the model receives a satisfactory level
of fit, and 2) the regression co-efficient (factor loadings) of all the indicators are
statistically significant, e.g., greater than twice its standard error (Anderson & Gerbing
1998; Dunn et al. 1994). In this research, each variable has a critical ratio larger than
critical value and all the CFA models receives satisfactory fit indicating that convergent
validity was achieved.
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On the other hand, discriminant validity estimates the degree to which a measure does not
correlate or converge with other constructs from which it is supposed to be different
(Malhotra 2003). It involves demonstrating a lack of co-relation among different constructs.
There are two types of discriminant validity; 1) within-construct validity and 2) across
construct validity. This research satisfies the within-construct validity as the measurement
items are highly co-related with the underlying construct. Further, this research
demonstrates across-construct validity as the model acheieved a satisfactory level of fit
(Anderson & Gerbing 1988).
In summary, in the first stage of this research, EFA were used to reduce the 45 variables
down to a smaller number of variables (36) which were then used for CFA and structural
equation models in the next step. Nine scale items as discussed earlier were dropped due
poor factor loadings at EFA stage and some others did not qualify to represent as an
individual factor. The greatest number of composite variables in any CFA model was nine
and the lowest were four in the main structural model which investigated the inter-
relationships amongst these composites. For any of these models, the sample size of 368
was sufficient for parameter estimation and model fitting. In this first stage of SEM,
clarifications of the measurement models were made before proceeding to test the main full
model (Anderson & Gerbing 1998; Bagozzi 1994).
One important issue for estimating a model is to decide on a one-or-two stage approach.
The conventional way of SEM involves estimating the measurement and structural models
together in one stage or at a time (Diamantopolous 1994). The one-step approach’s strength
lies in its rigor and lack of estimating bias because it is more consistent with the ‘the spirit
of causal modeling’ (Hulland, Chow & Lam 1996). Measurement models were estimated
first in order to assess the quality of the measurement items. This research used CFA to
maximize the reliability of latent variables and to reduce the variables to a manageable level
in fitting structural equation models to data at the subsequent stage as recommended by
Holmes-Smith & Rowe 1(994). Subsequently, the measurement and structural models were
estimated together in one model (one-step approach). Fornell and Yi (1992) strongly argued
for the superiority of this approach in which the over all fit of a model is tested without
regard to separate measurement and structural models.
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Chapter 7 Testing the Theoretical Model and Hypotheses
7.1 Structural Model Evaluation
The development of CFA in the previous section has validated data and obtained a
manageable number of valid and more reliable variables which can be used in the final
step of evaluating structural models (Anderson & Gerbing 1988). This section reports
the test results of the subsequent stage of SEM, full structural model (main model) as
well as proposed structural model. Particularly, three issues were considered in this
process: distribution normality, estimating the main model, estimating the proposed
model and modification of the model. Above mentioned issues will be discussed in the
following sections.
Further, along with other social structural variables in the main model; teenagers’
gender differences and social class differences were not measured by underlying
variables in this research. Since, these two variables are categorical variables therefore
in section 7.2 multi-group analysis has been carried out to understand the affect of
gender differences and social class differences on consumer socialisation of teenagers
by RTV.
7.1.1 Assessment of the Distribution of the Variables
Following the estimation of the CFA models, this section assesses the distributional
properties of the measurement variables that were used to estimate the structural
models. The univariate summary statistics for the variables are presented in Table 7.1.
On the basis of standard deviation, there appears to be a substantial amount of variation
in each of the variables and many of them departed from normality. However, because
the distribution result is asymptotic and not exact, some allowance for non-normality
can be made (Rao 2002). In this case, all the data negatively skewed and negative
kurtosis value indicates flatter than normal distribution. In addition, the use of
maximum likelihood (ML) moderates its effects in this research (Anderson & Garbing
1988; Kline 1998). Researchers have shown that when the data has slight or moderate
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deviation form multi-normality, ML has been the preferable method (Anderson &
Garbing 1988; Kline 1998). ML is based on the assumption that the observed variables
are normally distributed. To repeat all 36 composite indicators have kurtosis values
ranging from -1.491 to -.080 and skew ness values ranging from ranging from .983 to +
.077. All indicators can be considered as normally distributed because all the values are
less than 3.0 for skew ness and 10 for kurtosis (Kline 1998). Another indication is that
ML requires a large number sample size (Byrne 2001), this study satisfy this
requirement with 368 samples. In this model estimation, this requirement has also been
met because HOELTER index threshold is above required 200.
Table 7.1 Assessment of Normality
Variable min max skew c.r. kurtosis c.r. Talk to friends about RTV shows 1.000 7.000 -.692 -5.421 -.980 -3.837 Friends think RTV provide useful information
1.000 7.000 -.579 -4.534 -.483 -1.893
Friends think RTV entertaining 1.000 7.000 -.835 -6.542 -.080 -.311 Teenagers and friend talk about RTV content 1.000 7.000 -.983 -7.697 -.170 -.668 Friends watch RTV together 1.000 7.000 -.148 -1.160 -1.380 -5.405 Peers opinion important 1.000 7.000 -.225 -1.763 -1.096 -4.292 Teenagers and parents jointly select RTV show
1.000 7.000 -.294 -2.305 -1.237 -4.844
Co-viewing at weekends 1.000 7.000 -.707 -5.536 -.750 -2.938 Co-viewing at weekdays 1.000 7.000 -.061 -.480 -1.235 -4.837 Teenagers talk to parents about RTV content 1.000 7.000 .119 .929 -1.283 -5.025 Parents know about RTV 1.000 7.000 -.861 -6.746 -.439 -1.718 Imagine about RTV shows 1.000 7.000 -.367 -2.876 -1.013 -3.967 RTV with public appearances 1.000 7.000 -.450 -3.525 -1.287 -5.039 Wish to attend RTV 1.000 7.000 -.595 -4.656 -1.002 -3.924 RTV like real life 1.000 7.000 -.504 -3.951 -.625 -2.447 RTV on web 1.000 7.000 -.517 -4.051 -1.149 -4.500 Watch other programs relate to RTV 1.000 7.000 -.540 -4.233 -.858 -3.360 Watch RTV 1.000 7.000 -.940 -7.359 -.228 -.892 RTV from news papers 1.000 7.000 -.144 -1.130 -1.407 -5.508 Pay attention to RTV 1.000 7.000 -.526 -4.119 -.802 -3.142 Teenagers request for allowance 1.000 7.000 .005 .042 -1.491 -5.838 Teenagers like best thing in RTV 1.000 7.000 -.790 -6.184 -.506 -1.981 Teenagers like newest thing in RTV 1.000 7.000 -.344 -2.696 -1.089 -4.266 MNC brand in RTV 1.000 7.000 -.036 -.282 -1.001 -3.922 Teenagers like product shown in RTV 1.000 7.000 -.436 -3.414 -.731 -2.861 Teenagers like celebrities’ good figure 1.000 7.000 -.696 -5.449 -.910 -3.565 RTV develops teenagers’ creativity 1.000 7.000 -.837 -6.552 -.580 -2.273 Buy cloths shown in RTV 1.000 7.000 -.131 -1.027 -1.310 -5.128
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Variable min max skew c.r. kurtosis c.r. Fashion tips from RTV 1.000 7.000 -.748 -5.859 -.598 -2.341 RTV celebrities makes fashion conscious 1.000 7.000 -.295 -2.314 -1.028 -4.025 RTV ads provide products ideas 1.000 7.000 -.750 -5.875 -.525 -2.056 RTV helps market learning 1.000 7.000 -.766 -5.995 -.272 -1.067 RTV provides product information 1.000 7.000 -.854 -6.686 -.209 -.818 RTV makes aware of brands 1.000 7.000 -.701 -5.488 -.381 -1.492 RTV helps recalling 1.000 7.000 -.436 -3.414 -.857 -3.355 Product instruction from RTV 1.000 7.000 -.637 -4.988 -.442 -1.731 Talk to friends about RTV shows 163.540 29.989
7.1.2 Estimating the Proposed Model
A proposed model was developed and tested to ensure that the model with the best
explanatory power was accepted (Bollen & Lennox 1991; Hair et al. 1998). The
proposed model developed on the basis of current literature which has been reported in
chapter 3 (Figure 3.2) and illustrated in Appendix 8, was tested at first. The proposed
model is shown in Figure 7.1 and results of the proposed model evaluation are shown in
Table 7.2.
In Table 7.2 shows that fitness measures of proposed model does not satisfy the set
criteria as suggested by researchers mentioned in Table 6.10. Overall, the indicators of
goodness-of-fit criteria and other estimated values are under the suggested ranges. So,
modification was needed to develop a better model fit. Therefore, the proposed model
will not be considered in the rest of this thesis.
Table 7.2 Fitness of Measure for the Proposed Model
Fit Measure Proposed Model
Chi-Square 2170.099
Degree of freedom 938
P .000
Normed Chi-Square (CMIN/DF) 2.314
Root mean square of error of estimation (RMSEA) .060
Goodness of fit index (GFI) .779
Adjusted of goodness-of-fit index (AGFI) .756
Normed fit index (NFI) .683
Tucker-Lewis Index (TLI) .778
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Comparative fir index (CFI) .790
HOELTER 177
Figure 7.1 Proposed Model of CSRTV
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7.1.3 Modifying the Model (Refinement of Scale Items)
At this stage, it was considered to modify the model according to the modification
indices to improve model fit after the model assessment (Hair et al. 1998). However,
modifying the model has to be driven by theory rather than survey data
(Diamantopoulus 1994; Tabachnick & Fidell 2001). If substantive theory suggests any
variable or a relationship should be included in a model, as well as it should be left there
even if it does not contribute to the over all fit of the model (Joreskog & Sorbom 1993).
In this research the main model which is discussed next has got both theoretical as well
as data supports.
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7.1.4 Estimating the Main Model and Test Hypotheses
After evaluating the data against the assumption of SEM, next stage was to estimate the
main model and assess over all model fit (Hair et al.1998). This section presents the test
results of the full hypothesised model in Table 7.3. Further, differences between the
result of main and proposed model evaluation are shown in Table 7.4. The main
structural model shows the latent constructs: parental control, peers group influences,
RTV involvement, consumption related cognition, attitude and values. The diagram of
the main model is illustrated in Figure 7.2 and Appendix 9 shows over all path
diagrams. The result shows that there is no difference between the proposed and the
main structural model. However, there is difference between the measurement variables
of the two models. Accordingly, the proposed model did not require any modification
except refinement of the scale items.
Keesling (1972) and Wiley (1973) proposed that general structural equation model
combine regression technique with factor analysis. In this research, exploratory and
confirmatory factor analysis has been carried out followed by developing SEM. Further,
absolute and incremental fit indices (Hu & Bentler 1999) as well as goodness-of-fit
reported that the survey data fit quite well with model. Overall, goodness-of-fit statistics
were within acceptable fit as shown in Table 7.3. Marsh and Hocevar (1988)
recommended that CMIN/DF of 2 to 5 is indicative of an acceptable fit between
hypothetical model and the sample data. The cmin/df is 2.010 in this case along with
RMSEA .052 respectively which is recommended as <.08 (RMSEA) by Hair et al
(2006). Further, Bentler and Bonett (1980) as well as Mcdonald and Marsh (1990)
considered fit index NFI and CFI close to 1 is really desirable which is clearly
indicating support for the model in this research. Rest of the incremental fit indices like
GFI, AGFI and TLI also indicates reasonable fit in this model, which is recommended
as much close as 1 (Bentler & Bonett 1980; Tanaka & Huba 1985). HOELTER value
in this case is 201 which also satisfy the acceptable fit requirement. However, Chi-
square P value has got ‘.000’ in this case which is one of the indicators of goodness-of -
fit. The chi-square value should not be significant if there is a good model fit (Garson
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2009). A significant chi-square indicates lack of satisfactory fit (Garson 2009), which is
not the case in this research. Moreover, chi-square P is considered as conservative
measure of goodness-of-fit (prone to type two error), that is why many researchers who
use SEM with reasonable sample size (e.g., > 200) indicating good approximate fit test
by (e.g., NFI, CFI, RMSEA) (Garson 2009). Overall, these results confer that the main
model can be assessed as being adequate.
Table 7.3 Fitness of Measure for the Main Model
Fit Measure
Chi-Square 1179.943 Acceptable
Degree of freedom 587 Acceptable
P .000 Lower than critical value
Normed Chi-Square (CMIN/DF) 2.010 Acceptable
Root mean square of error of estimation (RMSEA)
.052 Acceptable
Goodness of fit index (GFI) .845 Acceptable
Adjusted of goodness-of-fit index (AGFI) .824 Acceptable
Normed fit index (NFI) .773 Acceptable
Tucker-Lewis Index (TLI) .861 Acceptable
Comparative fir index (CFI) .870 Acceptable
HOELTER 201 Acceptable
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Table 7.4 Comparisons of Fit Measures for Main and Proposed Model
Fit Measure Main Model Proposed Model
Chi-Square 1179.943 2170.099
Degree of freedom 587 938
P .000 .000
Normed Chi-Square (CMIN/DF) 2.010 2.314
Root mean square of error of estimation (RMSEA) .052 .060
Goodness of fit index (GFI) .845 .779
Adjusted of goodness-of-fit index (AGFI) .824 .756
Normed fit index (NFI) .773 .683
Tucker-Lewis Index (TLI) .861 .778
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HOELTER 201 177
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Models demonstrate two types of fit: overall fit and the local fit of individual
parameters. Overall fit is evaluated by how well the model explained all of the data in
the entire analysis. Local fit is determined examining how specific parameters may have
achieved statistical significance within the model. The chi-square statistic is the
generally recognised fit index for assessing overall model fit. In this case, the chi-square
is statistically significant indicating poor model fit. However, for models with more
cases (above 200), the chi-square is almost always statistically significant. As this study
involved much higher than 200 cases, the chi square statistic is not a suitable fit
indicator. It has been suggested that the ratio of chi-square to degrees of freedom be
examined as an alternative realistic indicator of fit when sample sizes are larger than
200 (with ratio of 5:1 to 2:1 considered to be within the acceptable range (Tanaka,
1993). In this study, this ratio was 1:2.66 which falls within the acceptable range
(Tanaka 1993). A number of fit indices, as identified in the above table are also used to
evaluate overall model fit. Fit indices achieved in this research are mostly above the
accepted level, except for GFI, AGFI and NFI which are marginally below their
respective acceptable levels. GFI and AGFI are also affected by sample size
(MacCullum & Hong 1997). On the other hand, NFI was one of the earliest fit indices
developed by Bentler & Bonnett in 1980. However, later on they found that NFI did
have some inherent weaknesses and created CFI as an alternate measure. In this
research, CFI is well within acceptable range, indicating acceptable fit. Overall, model
fit may be poor, but there are other alternatives for determining the value of a model.
Specifically, local model fit focuses on the value of individual parameters in the model.
Support regarding local fit is indicated when significant paths are found to be in the
hypothesised direction, and the magnitude of the item loadings is greater than .45
(Bentler & Wu 1993; Joreskog & Sorbom 1989). All the item loadings in this model
were above this threshold confirming local fit of the model. In spite of all that, however,
Overall model fit in this case should be accepted with caution due to some of the below
threshold fit indices achieved.
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7.1.5 Testing Hypotheses of the Main Model
In the following section, the standardized regression coefficient obtained from the
modified main model is used to test the hypotheses discussed in chapter 3. The
following empirical data standard regressions weights are significantly greater than
.000. P values fall within the range <.05 and critical rations all are above 1.96. As
shown in Table 7.5, all the 7 hypotheses are fully supported (not rejected).
Table 7.5 Standard Estimates for the Main Model
Estimates S.E C.R P values
Hypothesis test
H1 Cognition
<---
Involvement .737 .118 8.818 .000 Supported
H2 Attitude
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Involvement .301 .138 3.015 .003 Supported
H3 Attitude
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Cognition .211 .085 2.441 .015 Supported
H4 Values
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Involvement .596 .104 6.779 .000 Supported
H5 Attitude
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Values .392 .087 5.246 .000 Supported
H6 RTV Involvement
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Parental control .249 .075 3.656 .000 Supported
H7 RTV Involvement
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Peers group influences
.665 .075 7.077 .000 Supported
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7.1.6 Interpretation/Discussion of Empirical Results
The following section shows the detail explaination and interpretation of the empirical
results:
The following section shows the detail explanation and interpretation of the Empirical
results:
H1) There is a positive impact of RTV involvement on consumption related
cognition.
The standardized co-efficient of the path from ‘RTV involvement’ to ‘consumption
related cognition’ is significantly greater than zero (�=.737, p=.000) as shown in Table
7.5. H 1 is also supported by empirical data. Teenagers’ involvement with RTV plays a
significant role in their consumption related cognition development.
Hypothesis 1 for research objective 2 relates to the relationship between RTV
involvement and teenagers’ consumption related cognition development. Current
literature shows, as part of mainstream media, TV helps to develop product related
knowledge, consumer role perception and influences purchasing intentions (Bartlett,
Griffiths & Badian 2008; Moschis & Moore 1978). Findings of this study confirm these
issues from the perspective of RTV involvement. Furthermore, findings of this research
support that RTV advertisements also provide products and brand related knowledge
and ideas to teenagers. However, this study also shows that RTV does not directly help
teenagers to make specific buying decisions or help them to do value analysis as
proposed by the current literature. In other words, teenagers’ RTV involvement helps
them in their consumption related cognition providing knowledge and information but
do not directly influence their buying behaviour.
In summary, the findings of this research support the hypothesis that there is a positive
impact of RTV involvement on consumption related cognition. The empirically tested
CFA model, standard regression weights and goodness-of-fit shown in Chapter 6,
(Section 6.6.4) support this hypothesis.
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H2) There is a positive impact of RTV involvement on consumption related
attitude.
The standardized co-efficient of the path from ‘RTV involvement’ to ‘consumption
related attitude’ is greater than zero (�=.301, p=.003) as shown in Table 7.5. H 2 is also
supported by empirical data. The involvement with RTV plays a significant role in
developing teenagers’ consumption related attitude.
Hypothesis 2 for research objective 2 relates to the relationship between RTV
involvement and teenagers’ consumption related attitude. Current literature shows, as a
part of mainstream media, TV influences teenagers’ imitating tendencies, inspiration
from media personalities and attitudes towards product placement (Hirschman &
Thompson 1997; Russell, Norman & Heckler 2004; Schmoll et al. 2006). Findings of
this study also confirm these issues from the perspective of RTV involvement.
Furthermore, findings of this research support that teenagers prefer to buy multinational
brands if they are shown on RTV. However, this study also shows that teenagers do not
always blindly follow RTV celebrities regarding style. For example, they do not like to
do plastic surgery like their favourite RTV celebrities because they perceived them as
artificial.
In summary, the findings of this research support the hypothesis that there is a positive
impact of RTV involvement on consumption related attitudes. The empirically tested
CFA model, standard regression weights and goodness-of-fit shown in Chapter 6,
(Section 6.6.5) support this hypothesis.
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H3) There is a positive impact of consumption related cognition on consumption
related attitude.
The standardized co-efficient of the path from ‘consumption related cognition’ to
‘consumption related attitude’ is greater than zero (�=.211, p=.015) as shown in Table
7.5. H 3 also is supported by empirical data, that there is a positive association between
consumption related cognition and consumption related attitude.
The literature suggested that formation of attitudes through affective, cognitive, or
behavioural processes establishes associations that are linked to the attitude object and
can become part of the mental residue that is attitude (Neal, Quaster & Hawkins 2006).
These associations can reflect the cognitive precursors of attitude individually, or as a
whole (Eagly & Chaiken 2007). So, changes of cognition through the media can affect
the attitudes of teenagers. The findings of this research suggest that involvement with
RTV results in consumption related cognition, that in turn affects consumption related
attitudes, as shown in Chapter 3, (Section 3.3.1.1) thus agreeing with the theory.
The interrelationship between cognition and attitude as proposed in the current literature
is also supported by the findings of this research. Factor loading has been observed for a
couple of consumption related cognition measurement variables (e.g., RTV develops
teenagers’ creativity, preference towards RTV sponsoring brands) with consumption
related attitude (Table 6.9). It also confirms this theoretical agreement and indicates that
there is a positive impact of consumption related cognition on consumption related
attitude.
H4) There is a positive impact of RTV involvement on consumption related values.
The standardized co-efficient of the path from ‘RTV involvement’ to ‘consumption
related values’ is significantly greater than zero (�=.596, p=.000) as shown in Table 7.5.
H 4 is also supported by empirical data. Teenagers’ involvement with RTV plays a
significant role in the development of consumption related values.
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Hypothesis 4 for research objective 2 relates to the relationship between RTV
involvement and teenagers’ consumption related values development. Current literature
shows, as a part of mainstream media, TV plays a significant role in teenagers’ value
systems (Fletcher 2006). Furthermore, TV influences teenagers’ material values and
desires toward product consumption (Chan 2003; Ghani 2005; Wyllie, Zhang &
Casswell 1998). Findings of this study confirm these issues from the perspective of
RTV involvement. However, this study also shows that teenagers do not feel attracted
towards the prohibited items shown on RTV (e.g., alcohol, cigarettes). Furthermore,
contradicting the current literature, the findings show teenagers dislike the scanty outfits
worn by RTV participants and judges which they perceive as contradictory to their
culture.
In summary, the findings of this research support the hypothesis that there is a positive
impact of RTV involvement on consumption related values. The empirically tested CFA
model, standard regression weights and goodness-of-fit shown in Chapter 6, (Section
6.6.6) support this hypothesis.
H5) There is a positive impact of consumption related values on consumption
related attitude.
The standardized co-efficient of the path from ‘consumption related values’ to
‘consumption related attitude’ is clearly greater than zero (�=.392, p=.000) as shown in
Table 7.5. H 5 is also supported by empirical data, that development of teenagers’
consumption related values also affects their consumption related attitude.
Hypothesis 5 for research objective 2 relates to the relationship between consumption
related values and consumption related attitudes. Findings of this research confirm that
involvement with RTV results in consumer socialisation through consumption related
values and in turn, the consumption related attitudes supporting the current literature
(McCarty & Shrum 1993). The literature suggested that consumption related values,
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which are widely held beliefs about what is acceptable and/or desirable, are an
important outcome of consumer socialisation (Neal, Quester & Hawkins 2004). Further,
Solomon (2004) refers values affect attitude to alter the consumption socialisation
(McCarty & Shrum 1993).
Findings of this research, as discussed in chapter 3 (Section 3.3.3.1), confirm this
relationship between values and attitudes. Findings of this research have also
empirically shown that there is a positive impact of consumption related values on
consumption related attitude. As discussed earlier in chapter 6 (Table 6.9), one of the
consumption related attitude items, teenagers’ perceptions toward multinational brands
has loading with consumption related values.
H6) There is a positive impact of peer groups influences on teenagers’ RTV
involvement.
The standardized co-efficient of the path from ‘peer group influences’ to ‘RTV
involvement’ is significantly greater than zero (�=.665 p=.000) as shown in Table 7.5.
H 6 is also supported by empirical data. Peer groups have significant influence on
teenagers’ involvement with RTV.
The literature suggested that as one of the socialisation agents, peer groups influence
teenagers’ socialisation (Churchill & Moore 1979). Moreover, peers’ influence is also
considered as a vital social structural variable that affects teenagers’ involvement with
the media (Lueg & Finney 2007). In particular, peer groups influence teenagers’ media
usage behaviour by sharing knowledge, giving preferences and opinions about different
TV programs (Lueg & Finney 2007; Nathanson 2001). Findings of this study confirm
these issues from the perspective of RTV involvement.
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In summary, the findings of this research support the hypothesis that there is a positive
impact of peer groups influences on teenagers’ RTV involvement. The empirically
tested CFA model, standard regression weights and goodness-of-fit shown in Chapter 6,
(Section 6.6.2) support this hypothesis.
H7) Parents through communication, mediation and instruction positively
influence teenagers’ RTV involvement.
The standardized co-efficient of the path from ‘parental control’ to ‘RTV involvement’
is greater than zero (�=.249, p=.000) as shown in Table 7.5. Therefore, H 7 is also
supported by empirical data. So, parents through communication, mediation and
instructions influence teenagers’ involvement with RTV.
Hypothesis 7 for research objective 3 relates to the parental supervision of teenagers’
RTV involvement. Current literature shows that parents control their teenaged
children’s media involvement through communication, mediation, and instruction
(Bakir 2005; Barkin 2006, Cardoza 2002; Fuzioka 2002). The literature suggested that
as one of the social structural variables, parents in developing countries substantially
supervise teenagers' TV viewing behaviour (Cardoza 2002). Findings of this study also
confirm these issues from the perspective of RTV involvement. However, it has been
found in this research that due to teenagers’ parental business and their co-viewing
habits, they often provide moderate freedom to their teenaged kids to watch different
RTV shows. So, parents in Bangladesh do not control teenagers’ RTV involvement as
much as proposed by the current literature (Cardoza 2002).
Overall, findings of this research suggest that parents in Bangladesh control moderately
their teenagers’ involvement with RTV. The empirically tested structural model,
standard regression weights, goodness of fit shown in Chapter 6, (Section 6.6.1)
supports this hypothesis.
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H8) There is a difference between male and female teenagers’ involvement with
RTV and its effect on their consumer socialisation.
As this was one of the categorical variables, it was not tested with the main model.
Rather, effect of teenagers’ gender difference was tested using multi-group analysis,
results of which will be presented bellow. Male group was considered as the original
sample and the female group as the validation sample. Table 7.6 shows that RTV has
positive affect on consumer socialisation of both male and female teenagers, as both the
groups satisfy the good-ness-of fit criteria. Further, each progressive test (factor
structure equivalence, factor loading equivalence) supports cross validation of the
results (Table 7.7). The loose validation test produces adequate fit statistics. The first
multiple sample test (Factor Structure Equivalence) also provides adequate fit.
Furthermore, each progressive test produces insignificant change in fit as well as
change in Chi-square over the subsequent test.
Table 7.6 Goodness-of -Fits Estimates of Male and Female
Fit Measures Male Female
Chi-Square 900.660 1088.097 Degree of Freedom 587 587 P .000 .000 Normed Chi-square (CMIN/df) 1.534 1.854
Root mean square of error of estimation (RMSEA) .054 .068
Goodness of fit index (GFI) .789 .763
Adjusted of goodness-of-fit index (AGFI) .760 .732
Normed fit index (NFI) .698 .642
Tucker-Lewis Index (TLI) .857 .776
Comparative fir index (CFI) .866 .792
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Table 7.7 Cross Validation Statistics - Gender
Model
Description
Df X2 CFI RMSEA Comments
Loose cross
validation
587 1088.097 .792 .068 Reasonably
good fit
Factor
structure
equivalence
1174 1988.743 .821 .044 Reasonably
good fit
Factor loading
equivalence
1204 2016.82 .829 .043 Change in
X2 (30) = 2 8
Insignificant
However, differences of goodness-of-fit between two groups also show that RTV affect
their consumer socialisation marginally differently. Table 7.8 shows standard estimation
differences between male and female teenagers’ regarding consumer socialisation by
RTV.
Table 7.8 Multi-Group Analysis of Gender Differences on Consumer Socialisation
Process
Standard Estimate
Male Female
H1 Cognition <--- Involvement .756 .729
H2 Attitude <--- Involvement .425 .186
H3 Attitude <--- Cognition ..058 .339
H4 Values <--- Involvement .609 .598
H5 Attitude <--- Values .420 .374
H6 Involvement <--- Parental control .269 .133
H7 Involvement <--- Peers group influences .630 .754
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Current literatures show that teenaged male and female have different tastes and
preferences towards different types of TV programs that ultimately affect the outcomes
of consumer socialisation. Findings of this study somewhat confirm these issues from
the perspective of RTV involvement. Table 7.8 shows teenagers’ consumption related
cognition is highly influenced by RTV involvement for both the groups. However, there
is marginal difference between male (.756) and female (.729) regarding their product
knowledge, role perceptions and purchasing intentions. Teenagers’ consumption related
attitude is also affected by RTV and shows significant differences between male (.425)
and female (.186) in terms of imitating tendencies, getting inspiration from celebrities
and perception towards products. On the contrary, it appears that teenaged females’
attitude towards consumption are more likely to be influenced by their cognition (.339)
compared to their male counterparts (.058). Further, consumption related values of
teenaged male (.609) and female (.598) are also affected by RTV involvement. The two
groups show minor differences as both the groups have similar beliefs towards
materialism, desire towards products and prohibited product consumption. Further,
consumption related values affect both males (.420) and females (.374) consumption
related attitude.
As one of the social structural variables, parents also control their teenaged boys and
girls differently. It has been addressed in current literatures that teenaged girls enjoy
more freedom to watch TV than boys, as girls have more attachment with their parents.
This study also confirms this finding as parents control their teenaged boys RTV
involvement (.269) more than girls (.133). Further, both boys (.630) and girls (.754)
show strong attachment with peer groups regarding RTV involvement but it appears
that teenaged females are more influenced by their peer groups than their male
counterparts.
Overall, the structural model fits for both the genders though there are some differences
in the standard estimation for some of the measurement items between the genders.
Accordingly, the hypothesis is only partially supported.
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H9) There is a difference between middle and lower social class teenagers’
involvement with RTV and its effect on their consumer socialisation.
As social class was another categorical variable, it couldn’t be tested with the main
model. Rather, effect of social class difference was tested using multi-group analysis,
results of which will be presented in the following section. Middle social class was
considered as the original sample and the lower social class as the validation sample.
Table 7.9 shows that RTV has positive affect on consumer socialisation of middle and
lower social class teenagers, as both the groups satisfy the good-ness-of fit criteria.
However, differences of goodness-of-fit between two groups also show that RTV affect
their consumer socialisation somewhat differently. Further, each progressive test (factor
structure equivalence, factor loading equivalence) supports cross validation of the
results (Table 7.10). The loose validation test produces adequate fit statistics. The first
multiple sample test (Factor Structure Equivalence) also provides adequate fit.
Furthermore, each progressive test produces insignificant change in fit as well as
change in Chi-square over the subsequent test.
Table 7.9 Goodness-of-Fits Estimates of Middle and Lower Social Class
Fit Measures Middle Social Class Lower Social Class
Chi-Square 996.690 991.583 Degree of Freedom 587 587 P .000 .000 Normed Chi-square (CMIN/df) 1.698 1.689
Root mean square of error of estimation
(RMSEA)
.062 .061
Goodness of fit index (GFI) .776 .774
Adjusted of goodness-of-fit index (AGFI) .746 .744
Normed fit index (NFI) .724 .576
Tucker-Lewis Index (TLI) .852 .746
Comparative fir index (CFI) .862 .763
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Table 7.10 Cross Validation Statistics - Social Class
Model
Description
Df X2 CFI RMSEA Comments
Loose cross
validation
587 991.583 .763 .061 Reasonably
good fit
Factor structure
equivalence
1174 1988.273 .826 .044 Reasonably good fit
Factor loading
equivalence
1204 2024.125 .825 .043 Change in
X2 (30) = 35.8
Insignificant
However, differences of goodness-of-fit between two groups also show that RTV affect
their consumer socialisation marginally differently. Table 7.11 shows standard
estimation differences between male and female teenagers’ regarding consumer
socialisation by RTV.
Table 7.11 Multi-Group Analysis of Social Class Differences on Consumer
Socialisation Process
Standard Estimate
Middle Social Class Lower Social Class
H1 Cognition <--- Involvement .740 .697
H2 Attitude <--- Involvement .274 .336
H3 Attitude <--- Cognition .251 .170
H4 Values <--- Involvement .554 .563
H5 Attitude <--- Values .410 .363
H6 Involvement <--- Parental control .231 .230
H7 Involvement <--- Peers group influences .715 .578
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Current literatures show that teenagers from different social classes get involved with
media differently. Further, they have different tastes and preferences towards different
types of TV programs that ultimately affect the outcomes of consumer socialisation.
Findings of this study also partially confirm these issues from the perspective of RTV
involvement. Table 7.11 shows that teenagers’ consumption related cognition is highly
influenced by RTV involvement. However, due to higher access to TV, teenagers from
middle social class (.740) process product related knowledge and instruction better than
their lower social class counterparts (.697). Whereas, standard estimates of consumption
related attitude are stronger with lower social class teenagers (.336) than their middle
social class teenagers (.274). Relationship between consumption related cognition and
attitude of middle social class teenagers are more apparent (.251) than lower social class
teenagers (.170). Teenagers from middle social class (.554) and lower social class (.563)
show minor differences as both the groups have similar beliefs towards materialism,
desire towards products and prohibited product consumption. However, the effect of
consumption related values on attitude are stronger for middle social class (.410) than
the lower social class (.363).
Parents in both middle (.231) and lower social classes (.230) moderately control their
teenaged children RTV involvements. It has been found at qualitative stage of this
research and confirmed at quantitative stage that due to teenagers’ parental business and
their co-viewing habits, they often provide moderate freedom to their teenaged kids to
watch different RTV shows. On the other hand, teenagers from both the social classes
are highly influenced by their peer groups regarding their involvement with RTV.
Teenagers from middle social class are comparatively more influenced by their peers
(.715) than their lower social class counterparts (.578) as they have more chances to
meet their peers and friends.
Overall, the structural model fits for both the social classes though there are some
differences in the standard estimate for some of the measurement items between the
social classes. Accordingly, the hypothesis is only partially supported.
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In chapter 3 (Figure 3.2) a model of consumer socialisation by RTV (CSRTV) was
proposed on the basis of current literature. The variables that are considered in this
research were refined by qualitative analysis (Table 5.1) and tested by quantitative
analysis shown the following model of consumer socialisation of RTV (CSRTV). The
following empirically tested model supports hypotheses 1 to 7 that were developed on
the basis of current literature of consumer socialisation. However, hypotheses 8 and 9
were not fully supported, particularly no differences were found in the structural model
regarding between the two gender and also the two social classes. Accordingly, Figure
7.3 shows that empirically tested main model.
Figure 7.3 The Empirically Tested Model of CSRTV (Main Model)
(H1) yes
(H6) Yes (H3) Yes
(H2) yes
(H4) Yes (H5) Yes
(H7) yes
7.2 Conclusion
This chapter reported the results of the quantitative data analysis for this research.
Particularly, this chapter addressed the test result of structural model and hypotheses.
Structural equation modelling using AMOS was used to test the proposed as well as the
main model. The results indicated that the main model which excluded gender and
social class differences as social structural variables from the proposed model and a few
measurement variables on the basis of CFA results generate acceptable fit. The
summary of the research findings are shown in Table 7.12. The implication and
significance of these results will be discussed in the final chapter.
Peer group influences
Parental control
RTV Involvement
Consumption related cognition
Consumption related attitude
Consumption related values
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Table 7.12 Summary of the Research Findings
Research Objectives Research Hypotheses Results
1) To develop and test a model
of consumer socialisation of
teenagers of a developing
country by RTV.
Developed SEM by AMOS Supported
H1: There is a positive impact of
RTV involvement on consumption
related cognition.
Supported
H2: There is a positive impact of
RTV involvement on consumption
related attitude.
Supported
H3: There is a positive impact of
consumption related cognition on
consumption related attitude.
Supported
H4: There is a positive impact of
RTV involvement on consumption
related values.
Supported
2) To determine how RTV affect
in the consumer socialisation of
teenagers in a developing
country.
H5: There is a positive impact of
consumption related values on
consumption related attitude.
Supported
H6) There is a positive impact of
peer groups influences on teenagers’
RTV involvement.
Supported
3) To determine how teenagers’
social class differences, their
gender differences, peer group
and parental control influence the
role of RTV in their consumer
socialisation.
H7) Parents through communication,
mediation and instruction positively
influence teenagers’ RTV
involvement.
Supported
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H8) There is a difference between
male and female teenagers’
involvement with RTV and its effect
on their consumer socialisation.
Partially Supported
H9) There is a difference between
middle and lower social class
teenagers’ involvement with RTV
and its effect on their consumer
socialisation.
Partially Supported
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Chapter 8 Conclusions
8.1 Overview
This research addressed the research problem: How does teenagers’ involvement with
reality television (RTV) affect their consumer socialisation? This final chapter
reports the outcomes generated in response to this research problem analyses the
implication of their outcomes and draws conclusions.
Chapter 1 covered the background of the research issue, setting the prospect for this
research. The research problem was defined and research issues were outlined. The
significance of this research was discussed in terms of the potential for and the gap of
prior research about the topic.
In turn, Chapter 2 and 3 reviewed the existing literature relating to the research problem
and identified gaps in theory. Chapter 2 began with an overall discussion on consumer
behaviour and consumer socialisation. The two parent theories of socialisation,
cultivation theory and vicarious learning theory were reviewed that found a lack of
empirical examination of the affect RTV has on consumer socialisation in a developing
country. Based on this extant literature, the theoretical foundations for this research
were established in chapter 3. Further, a model of CSRTV was proposed and, three
‘research objectives’ followed by hypotheseses were derived in this chapter (Table 8.1).
Table 8.1 List of Research Objectives for this Research
Research Objectives
1) To develop and test a model of consumer socialisation of teenagers of a developing country
by RTV.
2) To determine how RTV plays a role in the consumer socialisation of teenagers in a
developing country.
3) To determine how teenagers’ social class differences, their gender differences, parental
control and peer group influences influence the role of RTV in their consumer socialisation.
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Next, Chapter 4 justified the methodology followed for this research. Both qualitative
and quantitative methods have been used in this research. In chapter 5, qualitative
findings were reported. Two FGIs were conducted to refine the current measurement
scale items of consumer socialisation and make them relevant for a developing country.
Then, chapter 6 and 7 analysed the two stage quantitative data: preliminary analysis, the
structural equation modelling for the measurement and structural models in first stage,
and testing of hypotheses in the main model in the second stage respectively.
In the previous chapter 7, findings of the hypotheses and their implications were
discussed relating to the empirical findings. This chapter reports on the contributions of
this research both in academic, policy and practice terms. Furthermore, it identifies the
limitations of the research and implications for the further investigations.
8.2 Contribution of this Research
According to the extant literature, consumer socialisation have three major components;
consumer socialisation agents, social structural variables and consumer socialisation
outcomes (John 1999). Media, particularly TV is considered as one of the influential
agents in the consumer socialisation (Bhosale & Gupta 2005; Orlik 2000). The process
of consumer socisalisation is multi-faceted and difficult to measure for the following
reasons: Firstly, outcome of consumer socialisation must be measured with same
sample group at a different time period. Secondly, the outcome of consumer
socialisation can not isolate the role of any particular socialisation agent.
However, this research comes along with the contribution by plugging gaps of the
above mentioned issues. Firstly, this research critically adopted and modified variables
through qualitative and quantitative analysis from the relevant discipline to measure
consumer socialisation by RTV in a developing country like Bangladesh.
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Secondly, academics of consumer socialisation have identified the role of TV in the
consumer socialisation. However, most of this research does not indicate any structured
model of consumer socialisation by TV that has been empirically tested. Furthermore,
there is very little contribution in the extant literature about the role of RTV in the
consumer socialisation. This research work represents one of the valued empirical
investigations of consumer socialisation by RTV.
Thirdly, this research addressed the influences of various social structural variables such
as parental control, peer group influences, gender differences and social class on
consumer socialisation outcomes which was largely overlooked so far from developing
countries perspectives. Further, addressing the significance of these social structural
variables on consumer socialisation by RTV and empirically testing their influences is
not only a contribution from developing countries perspectives but also in general.
8.2.1 Implication for Theory
In one sense there is nothing much new in the findings of this research. This research
involves refurbishing many of the variables which are described as commonsensical,
and have been previously established in other areas of consumer socialisation research.
However, the implications of such findings for the CSRTV have thus far been
overlooked by researchers. Critically, this research fills this gap. This research
integrates and applies existing knowledge in learning theories, consumer socialisation
theories and involvement theories to this research, as well as empirically testing the
research hypotheses. Consumer behaviourists are increasingly emphasising the need for
an integrated approach to Marketing, particularly, consumer behaviour. It is timely that
consumer behaviourists take such an integrated approach towards research in these
fields.
As a part of this integrated approach, this research establishes the importance of social
structural variables with RTV involvement in the consumer socialisation by RTV
(CSRTV) which has been overlooked by previous researchers. Moreover, it is observed
that no model has been found to consider such factors, though variables of consumer
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socialisation by TV have been extensively researched as part of consumer socialisation
theories. Not only does this research institute the importance of such factors but also
addresses the outcome results. Furthermore, consumption related cognition; attitudes
and values are considered as outcomes of the consumer socialisation in the extant
literature but have not been empirically tested regarding RTV involvement and its
consumer socialisation outcomes. This research contributes to filling this gap by
showing interrelationships of socialisation outcomes.
One major criticism of previous consumer socialisation research is the lack of focus on
audiences’ involvement with the media. Empirically tested models in this research take
into account the involvement of teenagers with RTV which expedites teenagers’
consumer socialisation. Furthermore, the extant literature recommended that the media
plays a significant role in the consumer socialisation of teenagers. This research has
established the role of RTV in teenagers’ consumer socialisation.
This research has identified and tested the specific variables and constructs, and has
developed multi-item measurement scales for those constructs. It has already
been mentioned that variables and constructs have been adopted from extant literature.
These constructs, and their measurement items, can now form the basis for further
research in the area, both in Bangladesh and relevant developing countries. Compared
to consumer socialisation theories, CSRTV is a completely unexplored research area,
not only in developing countries but also in developed countries. This research is a
major study in an important, but overlooked, area of business importance.
Furthermore, social structural variables are one of the crucial parts of extant consumer
socialisation research. However, not many studies highlighted the integration of the
number of social structural variables, such as social class differences, gender
differences, parental control and peers’ influences on the consumer socialisation. The
shortcomings have been explored through an investigation of theory, and the findings of
this research. The empirically tested, new model developed by this research may now
be presented as published work, or in future research reference as representative
of reality in the consumer socialisation.
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Another major contribution of this research is the successful integration of qualitative,
as well as quantitative methodologies of research. The use of SEM techniques for
quantitative testing of the proposed model is also unique in this area of research.
Multiple regressions, factor analysis, and multi-variate analysis of variance analysis
provide the researcher with powerful tools for addressing a wide range of managerial
and theoretical questions. But, they all share one common limitation: each technique
can examine only a single relationship at a time. SEM, as an extension of several multi-
variate techniques, resolves this issue.
8.2.2 Implication for Methodology
This research has one methodological implication. In this research FGIs were conducted
at the stage of qualitative data collection. In this research two different FGIs were
conducted with two different social classes which were different by social class
measurement criteria, but homogeneous within the group. In this research, FGIs were
focused to discuss the issues of teenagers’ involvement with RTV and to understand the
effect of consumer socialisation. Additionally, participants’ insights and opinions led to
the confirmation and refinement of the initial framework developed in Chapter 3. Thus,
the conceptual framework upon which the primary data collection stage is based was
not just from sparse literature, but indeed captured insights from practitioners (Rao &
Perry 2004). This practical orientation strengthened the foundations for this research.
8.2.3 Implications for the Policy and Practice
The previous section discussed the implications of this research for theory. This section
in turn, discusses implications for policy and practice.
Understanding consumers’ taste and preferences is the key issue for any marketers.
Most of the international and local businesses give maximum priority and effort to
understanding customers’ consumption behaviour through consumption related
cognition, attitudes and values. Accordingly, the findings of this research and the
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resulting model will be of interest to brand marketers and marketing communication
planners in Bangladesh and other developing countries. This model will be practically
significant to both experienced and aspiring brand marketers and marketing
communication planners. One major feature of this model is its flexibility. Marketers
can either consider any particular variable, or they can consider this process by
integrating all the specified variables. Furthermore, marketers can address the issues of
consumer socialisation from the angle of gender and social class differences. For
example: this research indicates that teenagers in middle social class are more involved
with RTV and it also varies due to their gender differences. Therefore, brand marketer
can get ideas about how to develop their positioning strategy among the teenagers from
different gender and social class. Further, market communication planners can also
consider teenagers way of involvement with RTV that might be helpful for reaching
their target customers. Media strategist and sponsors also can get a clear indication of
what are the different ways that teenagers get involved with RTV, which might be
fruitful for their marketing strategies. Finally, the model of this research will be useful
for the research and development wing of an organisation to assist with new products
that may support the brand marketers.
The CSRTV model developed and tested as a part of this thesis, will encourage
practitioners in how they structure any specific decisions. In addition to promoting
changes to structuring the process, this new decision model includes flexibility in the
decision process. In considering this new model, market practitioners will be able to add
specific insights, qualified judgments, and intuition towards their target markets that are
particularly crucial for media strategists and sponsors.
This research will also be a good point of reference for the academics and researchers
who are keen in using specialised software for a structural equation model. AMOS has
been used to develop and test the proposed model in this research. One of the major
implications of usage AMOS has is that it allows the flexibility of including and
excluding variables to get desired results. Therefore, researchers and academics can
understand the relative weights of variables that are considered in structural equation
modelling.
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Overall, this research has both academic and practical implications. For practitioners, its
findings are directly appropriate to their business activity. For academics and
researchers, it provides empirical evidence and opens up potential new areas of further
research.
8.3 Limitations
This research has been conducted in Bangladesh only. There are so many other
developing countries in the world. As only one of the developing countries, Bangladesh
does not represent all the economic and cultural indicators of all the developing
countries. Accordingly, the findings of this research may not be treated as completely
applicable to the rest of the developing countries, and needs to be tested further from the
perspective of individual countries.
Another shortcoming of this research is that it only develops the model of CSRTV,
representing the teenagers from middle and lower social class backgrounds in Dhaka
city. In Bangladesh more than 40 percent of the population lives at the bottom of a
pyramidal class system, and a significant number of people live in the middle class,
followed by a small number of upper social class people. However, this research does
not represent teenagers from upper social class.
Further, there was higher representation (75%) of 16-19 years old teenagers compared
to 13-15 years (25%) age group in the data set. This may have incurred a bias in results
because of potential differences in the cognitive ability and RTV involvement of
different age groups.
Furthermore, this research only studied consumer socialisation of teenagers from Dhaka
city (the capital of Bangladesh). There are six metropolitan cities in Bangladesh where
the population size of teenagers is quite large. Teenagers in other cities are also
involved with RTV. However, this research does not consider those populations as well.
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Finally, this research also did not consider a large number of non-resident Bangladeshi
teenagers living overseas. According to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, nearly 20
million non-Bangladeshi residents are living overseas and a large number of them are
teenaged. This research did not examine the affect of acculturation and consumer
socialisation of these expatriate teenagers.
From the methodological point of view this research suffers from a limitation. In the
current literature some researches suggest that understanding consumer socialisation
outcomes through TV involvement may be tested by experimental design (e.g, pretest-
posttest control group design) (Bushman 2005) or longitudinal study (Moschis & Moore
1982). However, due to time and resource constraints this research did not follow those
methods.
8.4 Implications for Further Research
This research has the potential to open up a new area of empirical research. This
research has been conducted among teenagers who have involvement with RTV.
Similar research may be conducted among the other options of the TV vehicle (e.g.,
Drama, musical shows) and electronic media (e.g., radio, film) which also have a
significant role in the consumer socialisation.
Particularly, findings from this research are relevant only for the TV vehicle, RTV.
RTV being a most contemporary vehicle in the electronic media area, such findings
may or may not be representative of other TV vehicles. For the sake of generalisation,
similar research needs to be conducted among other TV vehicles to get the notion of
consumer socialisation. Generally, RTV is a specific form of electronic media and a TV
vehicle. This research has developed factors or constructs that contribute to CSRTV and
their measurement scales. Further research is required to re-test such scales for possible
refinement and future usage for other media studies and confirm its applicability in the
consumer socialisation discipline.
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Furthermore, findings of this research have identified the factors that are considered in
CSRTV. Also, it has identified the observed variables that measure those factors.
However, this research did not measure the relative weight and importance of each of
those factors and variables. In reality, although each of those factors and associated
variables are included in CSRTV, it may well be the case that different consumer
sociologists and market practitioners put different weighting on the factors and
variables. While it was not an objective of this research to find out such relative
importance of variables, if any, further research may be conducted to establish whether
individual variables will need to assign specific numerical weights to each of the factors
to indicate their relative importance in the CSRTV.
It was mentioned earlier that most of the research in consumer socialisation by media
was carried out in the developed countries. Further, RTV is also an invention in
electronic media in developed countries. The findings of this research may contribute in
the development of a new model, and guide data definition for future research in
developed countries. Given the rapid change in electronic media and socialisation
research, it is surprising that there has been little research on the empirically tested
model of consumer socialisation through TV. Currently, there is a significant gap in the
area of consumer socialisaion through TV, particularly RTV, even in the developed
countries. Further research needs to be conducted to assess such implications.
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8.5 Specific Conclusions from the Findings of This
Research Regarding the Research Objectives and
Hypotheses
If considered against the specific research hypotheses in chapter 3, the findings of this
research lead to the following conclusions and empirically tested model:
1) There is a positive impact of RTV involvement on consumption related
cognition.
2) There is a positive impact of RTV involvement on consumption related attitude.
3) There is a positive impact of consumption related cognition on consumption
related attitude.
4) There is a positive impact of RTV involvement on consumption related values.
5) There is a positive impact of consumption related values on consumption related
attitude.
6) There is a positive impact of peer groups influences on teenagers’ RTV
involvement.
7) Parents through communication, mediation and instruction positively influence
teenagers’ RTV involvement.
8) There is a difference between male and female teenagers’ involvement with
RTV and its effect on their consumer socialisation.
9) There is a difference between middle and lower social class teenagers’
involvement with RTV and its effect on their consumer socialisation.
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8.6 Conclusion In this chapter, contributions of this research has been addressed, implications for the
theory, policy and practice were then offered, followed by limitations of this research.
At last, implications for further research were suggested.
In brief, this research highlights a structure of understanding consumer socialisation of
teenagers by RTV and how different social structural variables are also involved in this
process in a developing country. Further, the empirically tested model is a contribution
because it is the first extensively and rigorously researched steps towards understanding
the role of RTV as consumer socialisation agents of teenagers in a developing country.
Finally the model was built from theory and empirical research to present this process
and provides a foundation for the further research.
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Appendix 1 Questionnaire
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Role of reality TV as a consumer socialisation agent of
teenagers in a developing country
A Survey Questionnaire
Your completion of this questionnaire will be greatly appreciated.
All information will be treated in strict confidence.
Study Conducted By:
University of Western Sydney
SCHOOL OF MARKETING
On completion, Please return it to the researcher
If you have any questions regarding this questionnaire or the study please contact: Md. Ridhwanul Haq: (Phone) 61 2 98524127, Fax: 61 2 98524400, email: [email protected] School of Marketing, Locked Bag 1797 Penrith South DC NSW 1797, University of Western Sydney, Australia. Any concerns about this research you have should be directed to: The Executive Officer, Ethics in Human Research Committee, University of Western Sydney, Rooms K.1.35 to K.1.53, First Floor, Building K, Second Avenue, Kingswood NSW 2747, Australia. Facsimile: 61 2 47360905.
Your completion of this questionnaire will be taken to indicate your consent to participate in the study.
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Study of Reality TV (RTV) as Consumer Socialisation Agent
Explanatory Notes:
Coverage
This study will cover teenagers from urban middle and lower social classes in a developing country (Bangladesh).
Who should answer the questionnaire?
Teenagers, who watch reality TV (RTV), answer the questionnaire.
The questions
The questions require your considered opinion. Please answer the questions on the basis of your experiences of watching RTV, which results in consumer socialisation.
Some of the questions may appear similar, but your answer to each question will enable us to scientifically assess the responses and draw valid conclusions.
Confidentiality and use of data
All the data gathered through this survey will be held in the strictest confidence. The data gathered in this survey will be used in several reports, including a doctoral thesis. In all publications resulting from this survey only aggregated total figures will be published.
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A. On a scale of 1 to 7, where 1 is strongly disagree and 7 is strongly agree, to what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? (Please circle the
number that best reflects your agreement and disagreement on the following
statements) Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Statement
Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree
I watch RTV 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 I pay close attention when I watch RTV 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 I read about RTV in news papers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 I would attend a public appearance if my favorite RTV character from the show were there
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
I imagine how I would act in a similar situation shown on RTV
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
I watch other programs that include contestants from the RTV show
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
I wish I could be on RTV shows 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 RTV is just like real life 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 I wish I could watch RTV on web 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 RTV provides me a lot of information 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 RTV make me aware about particular brands
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
I understand product usage instruction from RTV
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
RTV helps me to recall about certain products
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
RTV is a good way to learn about what products/bands are available in market
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
The opinion of my favorite RTV celebrities influence me to say positive things about products or brands to other people
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Advertisements shown in RTV gives me new product ideas
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
I prefer the brands that sponsor RTV to increase my brand awareness
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
RTV makes me creative to do some thing new (e.g., makeup, hair style)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
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A. On a scale of 1 to 7, where 1 is strongly disagree and 7 is strongly agree, to what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? (Please circle the
number that best reflects your agreement and disagreement on the following
statements) Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Statement Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree
I get fashion tips from RTV 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 I like the product shown on RTV 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 I often buy clothing styles that I have seen in RTV
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
My favorite RTV celebrities make me fashion conscious
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
I want to get good figure like RTV celebrities (e.g. slimmer, muscular)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
I see my favorite RTV celebrity as my idol 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 I would like to have lunch with my favorite RTV celebrity
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
I feel very strongly about banning unethical products (e.g., tobacco, beer, alcohol) shown in RTV
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
I prefer to buy multinational brands if is shown by RTV
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
I like to own the newest things shown on RTV 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 I like to own the best things shown on RTV 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 It is better to have more allowance from parents to buy the brand shown on RTV
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
I often request my parents to get the products shown on RTV
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
I often request my parents to get the products shown on advertisements in RTV shows
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Some RTV shows promote use of prohibited items (e.g., alcohol, cigarette) among teenagers
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
I talk to my parents about RTV content 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 My parents and I discuss about RTV show selection
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
My parents and I watch RTV on weekdays 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 My parents and I watch RTV during weekends 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 My parents know what I watch on RTV 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 My parents prohibit me to watch certain RTV shows
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
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A. On a scale of 1 to 7, where 1 is strongly disagree and 7 is strongly agree, to what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? (Please circle the
number that best reflects your agreement and disagreement on the following
statements) Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Statement Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree
I talk to my friends about the RTV shows 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 My friends and I talk about content of RTV shows (e.g., entertainment, sex, information)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
My friends and I watch often RTV together 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 My friends think the content of RTV shows can provide useful information
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
My friends think content of RTV are entertaining
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
My peers’ opinions on RTV shows are important to me
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
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B. For each of the following questions, please tick (� ) the answers that apply to
you from the options provided,: a. In which of these age groups you belong to? 13-15 years 16-19 years b. What is your gender? Male Female c. In which class you are currently in? _____________ d. What is the highest educational level your father completed? No Formal Education Bellow SSC SSC HSC Graduate and above e. What is the highest educational level your mother completed? No Formal Education Bellow SSC SSC HSC Graduate and above f. What is your father’s occupation? House duties Blue collar job White collar job Others (please specify) --- g. What is your mother’s occupation? House duties Blue collar job White collar job Others (please specify) --- h. In which of the following groups your total annual household income falls into (Taka)? 30,000-50,000 51,000-70,000 71,000-90,000 90,000 Plus I. In which suburb you live in?--------------------------------------
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE AND CO-OPERATION
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Appendix 2 Flyer for Volunteers
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Volunteers Needed for Focus Group Discussion If you are male or female
1) from middle and lower social class background 2) age between 13-19 years 3) can speak and read Bengali
---then you may wish to participate in a PhD research conducted by University of Western Sydney titled “Role of reality TV as a consumer socialisation agent of teenagers in a developing
country”
This research is the first of its kind done in Bangladesh which will explore the knowledge, attitude and values about consumption behaviors of teenagers who are involved in reality TV (RTV). Also effect of RTV will be measured considering the impact of social class differences, gender differences, and parental control on teenagers’ RTV watching behaviour in Dhaka city, capital of Bangladesh.
The study is conducted by the School of Marketing and approved by the Human Ethics Committee at University of Western Sydney (Ref no. H6890). You will be invited to participate in one group discussion held in Dhanmandi, Dhaka which will take about 2 hours and will be conducted by highly trained people. Participation in this research is totally voluntary. Your privacy is our priority! So you do not have to provide your name, contact details or any personal information in the discussion as it will be audio recorded. You can withdraw your participation at any time during the discussion. Should you need more information and/or to express your interest in participation, please contact Md. Ridhwanul Haq on 01710895896/0423640048 or email [email protected]. The date and time of the group discussion will be negotiated once you have expressed your interest in participating.
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Appendix 3
Research Protocol
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University of Western Sydney
SCHOOL OF MARKETING
Dr. Syed H. Rahman Parramatta Campus
Senior Lecturer Room: EI.G.17 PO Box: 2116 NSW, Australia Phone: 61 2 9685 9162 Fax: 61 2 98524400 Email: [email protected] PARTICIPANT INFORMATION STATEMENT
Research Project Title: Role of reality TV as a consumer socialisation agent of teenagers in a
developing country
(1) What is the study about?
This research aims to gain a better understanding of teenagers consumption related cognition, attitude, and values through their involvement with reality television. The study is done involving teenagers, both boys and girls, who are13-19 years old in Dhaka city.
(2) Who is carrying out the study?
The study is being conducted by Md. Ridhwanul Haq and will form the basis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at University of Western Sydney under the supervision of Dr. Syed H. Rahman and Associate professor Felicitas Evangelista.
(3) What does the study involve?
The study involves you participating in discussion among a focus group involving up to 10 (5 boys and 5 girls) teenagers from Dhanmandi area to be facilitated by highly a trained person. The topics and questions discussed will be relevant to the research aims and will not be pointed at any one participant. You do not have to identify yourself by name and you will be requested not to identify others by name at any time during the discussion. You can respond only to the questions that you want to. The discussion will be audio recorded for transcribing purposes only and will not identify any individual participant. These focus group discussions will be organised around Dhanmondi area.
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As your participation is voluntary, you will not be paid for this participation. However, at the end of the discussion session light refreshments will be served. (4) How much time will the study take? The focus group discussion may take up to maximum of 2 hours. (5) Can I withdraw from the study?
Being in this study is completely voluntary - you are not under any obligation to consent and - if you do consent - you can withdraw at any time without prejudice or penalty. If you withdraw from participation during the discussion, any audio information that you have provided during the discussion, till the point of withdrawal, can not be separated and destroyed as your responses are not individually identifiable. Any other information you may have given up to that point will be destroyed. (6) Will anyone else know the results?
All aspects of the study, including results, will be strictly confidential and only the researchers will have access to information on participants. A report of the study may be submitted for publication, but individual participants will not be identifiable in such a report
(7) Will the study benefit me?
Your participation in this study may have benefits for the entire teenaged population of Dhaka city and in other similar teenaged population in all around Bangladesh.
(8) Can I tell other people about the study?
Yes.
(9) What If I require further information?
When you have read this information, Md. Ridhwanul Haq will discuss it with you further and answer any questions you may have. If you do like to know more at any stage, please feel free to contact Md. Ridhwanul Haq, PhD candidate on 01711895896/0423640048 or email [email protected] or Dr. Syed H.Rahman on 61 2 9685 9162 or email [email protected]. (10) What if I have a complaint or concern? Any concerns about this research you have should be directed to: The Executive Officer, Ethics in Human Research Committee, University of Western Sydney, Rooms K.1.35 to K.1.53, First Floor, Building K, Second Avenue, Kingswood NSW 2747, Australia. Facsimile: 61 2 47360905. This information sheet is for you to keep
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Appendix 4 Participant Consent Form
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University of Western Sydney
SCHOOL OF MARKETING
Parramatta Campus Room: EI.G.17 PO Box: 2116 NSW, Australia Phone: 61 2 9685 9162 Fax: 61 2 98524400 Email: [email protected] PARTICIPANT CONSENT FORM
I,--------------------------------------, give consent to my participation in the research project Title: Role of reality TV as a consumer socialisation agent of teenagers in a
developing country
In giving my consent I acknowledge that:
1. The procedures required for the project and time involved have been explained to me, and any questions I have about the project have been answered to my satisfaction.
2. I have read participant Information Statement and have been given the opportunity to discuss the information and my involvement in the project with the researcher/s.
3. I understand that my involvement in this study is strictly confidential and no information about me will be used in any way that reveals my identity.
4. I understand that being in this study is completely voluntary - I am not under any obligation to consent.
5. I consent to the audio recording of the interview. 6. I understand that I can withdraw from the study at any time if I do not wish to
continue and any recorded information provided by me during the discussion, till the point of withdrawal, cannot be separated and destroyed as my responses are not individually identifiable. Any other information that I have given to the interviewer up to this point will be destroyed.
Signed:-------------------------------------- First Name:--------------------------------- Surname:----------------------------------- Date:---------------------------------
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Appendix 5
Focus Group Discussion Script
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Focus Group Discussion Script: Consumer socialisation by reality TV
(CSRTV)
A) PRE-AMBLE (10 minutes) � Thanks & welcome by researcher � Nature of a focus group (informal, multi-way, all views acceptable, disagree) � There are no right or wrong answers – all about finding out what people think � Participants’ viewing � Going to be talking about the involvement of teenagers with TV particularly RTV
� Questions or concerns?
B) INTROS & WARM-UP (20 minutes) I’d like to go round the room and have you introduce yourselves … � First name � Do you understand the concept of RTV? � Best thing of watching RTV � Worst thing about watching RTV � How many days/hours you watch RTV? � What are some of the most common types of RTV you watch? BRIEFLY EXPLORE C) WATCHING OF RTV FEATURES (30 minutes) � Thinking now about RTV features, I’d like to start by making a list of all the
features you watch, learn and follow that influence your buying behaviors- anything that RTV affect your buying decisions, etc
� Are there any features RTV doesn’t have that might help you to take proper buying decisions but you wish to have that features?
EXPLORE
D) MOTIVATIONS FOR WATCHING RTV (30 minutes) � You’ve all been invited here because you watch TV, RTV … � What motivated you to watch RTV that helps you to think critically about your
buying decisions? EXPLORE � What do you think are some of the reasons that teenagers would consider RTV as
source of information for teenagers’ buying decisions? � What would be the single biggest reason? And some mention some others. EXPLORE
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E) PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT AND ROLE OF RTV SELECTION (20 minutes) � Do you watch RTV with your parents? � What is the attitude of your parents about RTV? � How you parents restrict and share with you about RTV? CLOSING EXERCISE (10 minutes) � How you watch RTV and what are the nature of this involvement with RTV? � Finally, I’d like your creativity for a few minutes – to come up with ideas … � Don’t worry about whether it’s a good idea or a bad idea. � Supposing RTV sponsors want to encourage you to buy their product tomorrow
…What could they do? � Just call out anything at all that occurs to you – obvious, profound, serious, silly,
whatever … EXPLORE & REFINE � Thank the respondents and close the session.
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Appendix 6 Parental Consent Form
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Consent Form
Name of Research Project: Role of reality TV as a consumer socialisation agent of teenagers in a developing country Name, Address and Phone No. of Investigator: Md. Ridhwanul Haq
School of Marketing University of Western Sydney Lockd Bag Penrith South DC NSW 1797
1. I, ................................................................... consent to my son/daughter’s participation in the research project titled Role of reality TV as a consumer socialisation agent of teenagers in a developing country. 2. I understand that my son/daughter is free to withdraw their participation in the research at any time. 3. The purpose of the research has been explained to me and I have read and understood the written explanation given to me. I have been given the opportunity to ask questions about the research and received satisfactory answers. 4. I understand that any information or personal details gathered in the course of this research about my son/daughter is confidential and that neither their name nor any other identifying information will be used or published without my written permission. 5. I understand that if I have any complaints about this research I can contact: The Executive Officer Ethics in Human Research Committee University of Western Sydney Kingswood NSW 2747 Phone: 61 2 47360905 Signed by: .............................................................................................. Date.......................................................................................
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Appendix 7
Permission from Schools in Dhaka
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Appendix 8
A Proposed Model for this Research
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Computer Output of the SEM Analysis of the Empirically
Tested Model (Main Model)
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Appendix 10
Multi-Group Analysis Output of Gender Differences
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Standardised Regression Weights (Male)
Estimate Involvement <--- Parental_control .269 Involvement <--- Peer_group_influences .630 Cognition <--- Involvement .756 Values <--- Involvement .609 Attitude <--- Involvement .425 Attitude <--- Values .420 Attitude <--- Cognition .058 closeatten <--- Involvement .586 readrtvinpapers <--- Involvement .508 watchrtv <--- Involvement .476 otherprogrtv <--- Involvement .515 watchrtvweb <--- Involvement .432 rtvreallife <--- Involvement .524 couldbeonrtv <--- Involvement .580 publicapparancertvcharacter <--- Involvement .506 imaginertv <--- Involvement .525 instructrtv <--- Cognition .769 rtvecallpro <--- Cognition .719 rtvawarebr <--- Cognition .654 rtvlotinfo <--- Cognition .668 rtvlearnpro <--- Cognition .611 tvconrtv <--- Cognition .609 rtvcelebmakesfashionconscious <--- Attitude .715 fashiontipsrtv <--- Attitude .661 clothingstylesrtv <--- Attitude .591 rtvmakescreative <--- Attitude .559 figurelikertvceleb <--- Attitude .535 likeprortv <--- Attitude .704 multibrandsbyrtv <--- Values .548 newestthingsonrtv <--- Values .854 bestthingsonrtv <--- Values .720 allowancefromparents <--- Values .483 parentsknowrtv <--- Parental_control .396 talktoparents <--- Parental_control .681 rtvonweekdays <--- Parental_control .814 rtvonweekends <--- Parental_control .804 parentsnidiscuss <--- Parental_control .827 peersopiniononrtv <--- Peer_group_influences .609 friendsnirtvtogether <--- Peer_group_influences .656 talktofriends <--- Peer_group_influences .653 friendsthinkrtventert <--- Peer_group_influences .687 friendsthinkrtvuseful <--- Peer_group_influences .701 talktofriendsrtvcontent <--- Peer_group_influences .437
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Goodness of Fit (Male)
Goodness of Fit Values Chi-Square 900.660 Degree of Freedom 587 P .000 Normed Chi-square (CMIN/df) 1.534
Root mean square of error of estimation (RMSEA) .054
Goodness of fit index (GFI) .789
Adjusted of goodness-of-fit index (AGFI) .760
Normed fit index (NFI) .698
Tucker-Lewis Index (TLI) .857
Comparative fir index (CFI) .866
Empirically Tested Model for Multi-Group Analysis (Male)
cognition
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Standardised Regression Weights (Female)
Estimate
Involvement <--- Peer_group_influences .754
Involvement <--- Parental_control .133
Cognition <--- Involvement .729
values <--- Involvement .598
Attitude <--- Involvement .186
Attitude <--- values .374
Attitude <--- Cognition .339
closeatten <--- Involvement .454
readrtvinpapers <--- Involvement .443
watchrtv <--- Involvement .499
otherprogrtv <--- Involvement .599
watchrtvweb <--- Involvement .470
rtvreallife <--- Involvement .359
couldbeonrtv <--- Involvement .551
publicapparancertvcharacter <--- Involvement .421
imaginertv <--- Involvement .508
instructrtv <--- Cognition .797
rtvecallpro <--- Cognition .726
rtvawarebr <--- Cognition .692
rtvlotinfo <--- Cognition .691
rtvlearnpro <--- Cognition .609
tvconrtv <--- Cognition .613
rtvcelebmakesfashionconscious <--- Attitude .680
fashiontipsrtv <--- Attitude .690
clothingstylesrtv <--- Attitude .673
rtvmakescreative <--- Attitude .642
figurelikertvceleb <--- Attitude .538
likeprortv <--- Attitude .710
multibrandsbyrtv <--- values .684
newestthingsonrtv <--- values .770
bestthingsonrtv <--- values .731
allowancefromparents <--- values .511
parentsknowrtv <--- Parental_control .486
talktoparents <--- Parental_control .625
rtvonweekdays <--- Parental_control .621
rtvonweekends <--- Parental_control .716
parentsnidiscuss <--- Parental_control .807
peersopiniononrtv <--- Peer_group_influences .626
friendsnirtvtogether <--- Peer_group_influences .371
talktofriends <--- Peer_group_influences .614
312
Estimate
friendsthinkrtventert <--- Peer_group_influences .592
friendsthinkrtvuseful <--- Peer_group_influences .695
talktofriendsrtvcontent <--- Peer_group_influences .564
Goodness of Fit (Female)
Goodness of Fit Values Chi-Square 1088.097 Degree of Freedom 587 P .000 Normed Chi-square (CMIN/df) 1.854
Root mean square of error of estimation (RMSEA) .068
Goodness of fit index (GFI) .763
Adjusted of goodness-of-fit index (AGFI) .732
Normed fit index (NFI) .642
Tucker-Lewis Index (TLI) .776
Comparative fir index (CFI) .792
Empirically Tested Model for Multi-Group Analysis (Female)
cognition
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Appendix 11
Multi-Group Analysis Output of Social Class Differences
314
Standardised Regression Weights (Middle Social Class)
Estimate
Involvement <--- Parental_control .231
Involvement <--- Peer_group_influences .715
Cognition <--- Involvement .740
Values <--- Involvement .554
Attitude <--- Involvement .274
Attitude <--- Values .410
Attitude <--- Cognition .251
closeatten <--- Involvement .646
readrtvinpapers <--- Involvement .578
watchrtv <--- Involvement .581
otherprogrtv <--- Involvement .644
watchrtvweb <--- Involvement .459
rtvreallife <--- Involvement .465
couldbeonrtv <--- Involvement .581
publicapparancertvcharacter <--- Involvement .484
imaginertv <--- Involvement .563
instructrtv <--- Cognition .809
rtvecallpro <--- Cognition .751
rtvawarebr <--- Cognition .797
rtvlotinfo <--- Cognition .754
rtvlearnpro <--- Cognition .636
tvconrtv <--- Cognition .695
rtvcelebmakesfashionconscious <--- Attitude .781
fashiontipsrtv <--- Attitude .780
clothingstylesrtv <--- Attitude .724
rtvmakescreative <--- Attitude .676
figurelikertvceleb <--- Attitude .546
likeprortv <--- Attitude .751
multibrandsbyrtv <--- Values .677
newestthingsonrtv <--- Values .858
bestthingsonrtv <--- Values .740
allowancefromparents <--- Values .595
parentsknowrtv <--- Parental_control .401
talktoparents <--- Parental_control .669
rtvonweekdays <--- Parental_control .767
rtvonweekends <--- Parental_control .840
parentsnidiscuss <--- Parental_control .741
peersopiniononrtv <--- Peer_group_influences .600
friendsnirtvtogether <--- Peer_group_influences .518
talktofriends <--- Peer_group_influences .686
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Estimate
friendsthinkrtventert <--- Peer_group_influences .706
friendsthinkrtvuseful <--- Peer_group_influences .714
talktofriendsrtvcontent <--- Peer_group_influences .682
Goodness of Fit (Middle Social Class)
Goodness of Fit Values Chi-Square 996.690 Degree of Freedom 587 P .000 Normed Chi-square (CMIN/df) 1.698
Root mean square of error of estimation (RMSEA) .062
Goodness of fit index (GFI) .776
Adjusted of goodness-of-fit index (AGFI) .746
Normed fit index (NFI) .724
Tucker-Lewis Index (TLI) .852
Comparative fir index (CFI) .862
Empirically Tested Model for Multi-Group Analysis (Middle Social Class)
cognition
cog3 e1
1
1
cog4 e2
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cog2 e3
1
cog1 e4
1
cog5 e5
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cog7 e6
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attitude
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values
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val1 e14
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val2 e15
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val3 e16
1
involvement
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1
inv3 e18
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inv1 e19
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inv6 e20
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inv9 e21
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inv8 e22
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inv7 e23
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inv4 e24
1
inv5 e25
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pi1e29
1
pi5e28
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pi4e27
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pi2e26
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parental
control
pc5e36
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1
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Standardised Regression Weights (Lower Social Class)
Estimate
Involvement <--- Parental control .230
Involvement <--- Peer group influences .578
Cognition <--- Involvement .697
values <--- Involvement .563
Attitude <--- Involvement .336
Attitude <--- values .363
Attitude <--- Cognition .170
rtvcelebmakesfashionconscious <--- Attitude .648
fashiontipsrtv <--- Attitude .532
clothingstylesrtv <--- Attitude .531
rtvmakescreative <--- Attitude .452
figurelikertvceleb <--- Attitude .465
likeprortv <--- Attitude .635
closeatten <--- Involvement .392
readrtvinpapers <--- Involvement .436
watchrtv <--- Involvement .399
otherprogrtv <--- Involvement .394
watchrtvweb <--- Involvement .364
rtvreallife <--- Involvement .373
couldbeonrtv <--- Involvement .500
publicapparancertvcharacter <--- Involvement .368
imaginertv <--- Involvement .517
multibrandsbyrtv <--- values .547
newestthingsonrtv <--- values .745
bestthingsonrtv <--- values .660
allowancefromparents <--- values .360
instructrtv <--- Cognition .755
rtvecallpro <--- Cognition .683
rtvawarebr <--- Cognition .552
rtvlotinfo <--- Cognition .559
rtvlearnpro <--- Cognition .524
tvconrtv <--- Cognition .477
parentsknowrtv <--- Parental_control .567
talktoparents <--- Parental_control .604
rtvonweekdays <--- Parental_control .634
rtvonweekends <--- Parental_control .700
parentsnidiscuss <--- Parental_control .855
peersopiniononrtv <--- Peer group influences .620
friendsnirtvtogether <--- Peer group influences .470
talktofriends <--- Peer group influences .616
317
Estimate
friendsthinkrtventert <--- Peer group influences .585
friendsthinkrtvuseful <--- Peer group influences .658
talktofriendsrtvcontent <--- Peer group influences .284
Goodness of Fit (Lower Social Class)
Goodness of Fit Values Chi-Square 991.583 Degree of Freedom 587 P .000 Normed Chi-square (CMIN/df) 1.689
Root mean square of error of estimation (RMSEA) .061
Goodness of fit index (GFI) .774
Adjusted of goodness-of-fit index (AGFI) .744
Normed fit index (NFI) .576
Tucker-Lewis Index (TLI) .746
Comparative fir index (CFI) .763
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cognition
cog3 e1
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1
cog4 e2
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cog2 e3
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cog1 e4
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List of Constructs and Variables
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Constructs Variables RTV Involvement I watch RTV
I pay close attention when I watch RTV I read about RTV in news papers I would attend a public appearance if my favorite RTV character from the show were there I imagine how I would act in a similar situation shown on RTV I watch other programs that include contestants from the RTV show I wish I could be on RTV shows RTV is just like real life I wish I could watch RTV on web
Consumption Related Cognition RTV provides me a lot of information RTV make me aware about particular brands I understand product usage instruction from RTV RTV helps me to recall about certain products RTV is a good way to learn about what products/bands are available in market The opinion of my favorite RTV celebrities influence me to say positive things about products or brands to other people Advertisements shown in RTV gives me new product ideas I prefer the brands that sponsor RTV to increase my brand awareness RTV makes me creative to do some thing new (e.g., makeup, hair style)
Consumption Related Attitude I get fashion tips from RTV I like the product shown on RTV I often buy clothing styles that I have seen in RTV My favorite RTV celebrities make me fashion conscious I want to get good figure like RTV celebrities (e.g. slimmer, muscular)
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I see my favorite RTV celebrity as my idol I would like to have lunch with my favorite RTV celebrity I feel very strongly about banning unethical products (e.g., tobacco, beer, alcohol) shown in RTV I prefer to buy multinational brands if is shown by RTV
Consumption Related Values I like to own the newest things shown on RTV I like to own the best things shown on RTV It is better to have more allowance from parents to buy the brand shown on RTV I often request my parents to get the products shown on RTV I often request my parents to get the products shown on advertisements in RTV shows Some RTV shows promote use of prohibited items (e.g., alcohol, cigarette) among teenagers
Parental Control
I talk to my parents about RTV content My parents and I discuss about RTV show selection My parents and I watch RTV on weekdays My parents and I watch RTV during weekends My parents know what I watch on RTV My parents prohibit me to watch certain RTV shows
Peer Group Influences I talk to my friends about the RTV shows My friends and I talk about content of RTV shows (e.g., entertainment, sex, information) My friends and I watch often RTV together My friends think the content of RTV shows can provide useful information My friends think content of RTV are entertaining My peers’ opinions on RTV shows are important to me
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List of Middle and Lower social classes Suburbs and Respective Schools in Dhaka
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