Impact of the Selected Determinants on Young Consumers’ Behaviours in 2004-2013 (Own Surveys Findings) Cover Image

Wpływ wybranych determinant na zachowania młodych konsumentów w latach 2004-2013 (wyniki badań własnych)
Impact of the Selected Determinants on Young Consumers’ Behaviours in 2004-2013 (Own Surveys Findings)

Author(s): Izabela Sowa
Subject(s): Organizational Psychology, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today), Marketing / Advertising
Published by: Instytut Badań Rynku, Konsumpcji i Koniunktur
Keywords: young consumers; determinants of behaviours; consumer behaviours;

Summary/Abstract: An aim of considerations is to identify the changes that have taken place in young consumers’ behaviours since 2004. A particular attention was paid to the role of brand, advertising, opinion of parents and peers as well as to the hitherto experience issuing from the use of the product. In result, there was indicated the direction of changes that take place in attitudes towards these determinants. The study is a result of surveys carried out in 2004, 2006, 2010 and 2013 among pupils of Silesian grammar and secondary schools. The surveys allowed indicating the role of social factors in the youths’ decision-making process, identifying the changes in the hierarchy of the factors affecting purchases and differentiation of behaviours issuing from the consumers’ gender. The surveys’ findings may serve for working out a strategy of marketing activities in the young consumer’s market and contribute to a deeper recognition of this market. The article is of the research nature.

  • Issue Year: 355/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 370-383
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish