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죽음 현저성이 의인화된 브랜드 평가에 미치는 영향: 사회성 동기, 의인화 유형 및 죽음 유형의 조절효과를 중심으로

The Effects of Mortality Salience on Consumer Evaluations of Anthropomorphic Brands: Focusing on the Moderating Roles of Sociality Motivation, Types of Brand Anthropomorphism and Evoked Death

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한국소비자학회 (Korean Society Of Consumer Studies)|2021.12|소비자학연구 (Journal of Consumer Studies)|제32권 제6호|pp. 1-25|DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.35736/JCS.32.6.1

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공포관리이론죽음현저성브랜드 평가브랜드 의인화Brand anthropomorphismMortality salience사회성 동기Brand evaluation브랜드 의인화 유형죽음의 유형Terror management theorySociality motivationTypes of anthropomorphised brandTypes of evoked death
주제분류경제학

초록

본 연구는 죽음현저성(Mortality Salience)이 소비자 행동에 미치는 영향에 관한 새로운 연구를 목적으로 죽음현저성이 의인화된 브랜드에 미치는 영향력에 대해 살펴보고자 하였다. 또한 두 변수의 관계에 영향을 미치는 조절 변수로서 사회성 동기 및 의인화 유형의 조절 효과를 검증하고자 하였다. 마지막으로 부각된 죽음의 유형이 의인화된 브랜드 평가에 미치는 영향과 연령대를 조절변수로 한 영향력의 차이에 대해서도 검증하고자 하였다. 본 연구는 죽음현저성이 의인화된 브랜드 평가에 미치는 영향에 대한 기존 연구의 잠재적 한계로 지목되었던 실험대상 제품군 자체의 의인화적 성격을 배제한 경우에도 동일한 효과가 나타나는지 검증하고자 기존 연구의 평가 대상이었던 인공지능 스피커를 노트북으로 대체하여 새로운 실험을 진행하였다. 첫 번째 연구 결과 제품군 자체가 의인화적 성격을 갖지 않은 경우에도 죽음현저성은 의인화된 브랜드 평가에 정의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 실험 대상자의 사회성 동기가 높을 때 의인화된 브랜드에 대한 평가가 더 좋게 나타났다. 두 번째 연구에서는 의인화 유형의 조절적 효과를 분석하였고, 그 결과 서번트로 의인화된 브랜드보다 파트너로 의인화된 브랜드의 경우에 죽음현저성이 의인화된 브랜드 평가에 더 긍정적인 영향을 주는 것을 확인하였다. 세 번째 연구에서는 부각된 죽음의 유형이 의인화된 브랜드 평가에 미치는 영향을 살펴보았으며, 그 결과 자연사 혹은 사고사와 같은 죽음의 유형은 의인화된 브랜드 평가에 미치는 영향력에서 유의미한 차이가 없는 것으로 확인되었고, 연령대를 조절변수로 한 영향력의 차이에서도 죽음 유형과 나이의 상호작용 효과 역시 유의하지 않은 것으로 나타났다. 최근의 팬데믹 상황은 인간은 언제든지 죽을 수 있는 존재라는 죽음에 대한 인식을 부각시키는 상황으로 볼 수 있다. 또한 사회적 거리두기 등으로 인해 생겨난 사회적 관계의 결핍은 소비자들의 사회성 동기를 더욱 자극할 수 있다. 따라서 이러한 팬데믹 상황에서 의인화 브랜드가 어떤 역할을 할 수 있으며, 좀 더 구체적으로 어떻게 의인화되는 것이 더욱 긍정적인 소비자 반응을 유발할 수 있는가를 연구하는 것은 시기적으로도 매우 시사점이 클 것으로 생각된다.

Abstract

This study is to examine the effect of mortality salience on anthropomorphic brand evaluation. In addition, the moderating effect of sociality motivation and the types of anthropomorphism as a moderating variable affecting the relationship between the two variables was tested. Finally, we tried to examine the difference in the influence of death type on the anthropomorphic brand evaluation and the moderating role of age was also examined. This study attempted to confirm whether the mortality salience effects on anthropomorphic brand evaluation still appeared even when such product categories of anthropomorphic nature as AI speaker was excluded in the experiments which was pointed out as a potential limitation of previous studies on brand anthropomorphism. AI speaker was replaced with a laptop and a new experiment was conducted. The result of the first study showed that mortality salience had a positive effect on the anthropomorphic brand evaluation even when the product itself did not have an anthropomorphic personality. Especially when the sociality motivation was high, the evaluation of anthropomorphic brands turned out to be more positive. In the second study, the moderating effect of the type of brand anthropomorphism was analyzed, and the result confirmed that mortality salience had a more positive effect on the anthropomorphic brand evaluation when the brand was anthropomorphised as a partner versus a servant. In the third study, the influence of the type of death on the evaluation of anthropomorphic brands was examined, and as a result, it was confirmed that there was no significant difference in the influence of the types of death such as natural or accidental death on the evaluation of anthropomorphic brands. In addition, it was also found that the interaction effect between death type and age was not significant. The recent pandemic situation can be seen as a situation that highlights the perception of death that humans have no choice but to die someday and can die anytime. In addition, the lack of social relations caused by social distancing can further stimulate consumers' sociality motivation. Therefore, this research on the roles of anthropomorphic brands in such a pandemic situation when mortality perception becomes salient can be considered as a study with meaningful implications these days.

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