ABSTRACT

The Effectiveness of Patriotic Advertising by product involvement and type of message


Lee, Sang Hoon

Advertising & PR Major

Dept. of Journalism

The Graduate School of Chung-Ang University



Nowadays we can see the difficulties of Korean economy. Our economic crisis makes higher unemployment rate than ever before and also threatens the advertising market.

As a result of these circumstances, there are a lot of managers and advertising executives who try to find a new marketing strategy. There are many empirical evidences that even though in recession, we have to execute advertising in some ways. That is the reason for how to make an advertising in these days. Among the rest of advertising strategy alternatives, Patriotic Advertising is one possible solution.

The purpose of this research is to examine the effectiveness of patriotic advertising by product type. There are some researches concerning patriotic advertising but most of studies focus on the Country-of-Origin effect.

Trends of these areas, to examine patriotic adverstising is almost new try. Because there are few studies related to patriotism.

Before this study goes on, It is essential to find who belongs to high patrioism group or who belongs to low patriotism group. The degree of patriotism is measured by CETSCALE which was deviced by Shimp and Sharma.

The result of measuring patriotic degree is that 95 people are high patriotic group and 105 people are low Patriotic group.

Based on the degree of patriotism, to examine that high patriotic group shows more fabulous brand recall, and consumersAad attitude toward advertisement. Abr attitude toward brandand PI purchase intention.

And also this study reveals some relationship between product involvement and type of message.

The result shows that there is no difference bet ween high patriotism group and low patriotism group in brand recall and Abr attitude toward brand. But there were significantly statistical differences between high Patriotism group and low Patriotism group in Aad attitude toward advertisementand PI purchase intention.

That result indicates some advertising strategy that when advertsing executives use patriotic advertising, they d better check out targets degree of patriotism and product involvement. That method would be efficient to use patriotic advertising.

The result of relationship between product involvement, and type of messages and consumers patriotism are shown below.

In case of high involvement products and high patriotic group in patriotic advertising, rational type of message gets more favorable response than emotional type of message toward Aad and PI. But others were nt statistically significant.

In case of low involvement products and low patriot group in patriotic advertising, emotional type of mess age gets more favorable response than rational type of message toward Aad and PI. But others were nt statistically significant.

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