Antecedents of Taiwanese Adolescents’ Purchase Intention toward the Merchandise of A Celebrity: The Moderating Effect of Celebrity Adoration

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relative importance of adolescents` attitude toward an act (the degree to which the person had a favorable or unfavorable evaluation or appraisal of the act`s behavior in question), perceived norm, and perceived behavioral control in predicting Taiwanese adolescents` intention to purchase the merchandise of a celebrity when they had different levels of celebrity adoration. The present results showed that the relative strengths of attitude toward the act and the perception of behavioral control in predicting purchase intention toward the merchandise of a celebrity were stronger for adolescents in the celebrity adoration group than for adolescents in the celebrity nonadoration group. On the other hand, the relative importance of the perceived norm in predicting the attitude toward the act and the purchase intention was stronger for adolescents in the celebrity nonadoration group than for adolescents in the celebrity adoration group.