The KMO measure of the sampling adequacy for the brand association factor was 0.735
and none of five statements were dropped from the analysis since the factor loadings
W0.50 (see Table III). The Bartlett test of sphericity was significant ( χ2¼183.049, po0.01).
Inspection of the anti-image of the correlation matrix was well beyond the acceptable level
of 0.50. There was only single factor was extracted with the eigenvalue¼2.358, which was
larger than 1, and 47.150 per cent of the variance has been explained. Rotation was not
necessary for this case, as only a single factor extracted. This single factor was used for
further analysis. All five brand association statements which were rated positively includes
“I trust the company who owns the particular product/brand that appeared in the social
media” (0.771), “This particular product/brand that appeared in the social media is familiar to
me” (0.689), “There are reasons to buy this particular product/brand over the competing
product/brand that appeared in the social media” (0.678), “This particular product/
brand that appeared in the social media has its own personality” (0.665), and “This particular
product/brand is different in comparison with the other competing product/brand that
appeared in the social media” (0.622). The first emerged as the most domineering item in
this factor as compared to the four remaining items.