The authors suggested restricting the domain of service quality to long-term attitudes and consumer satisfaction to transaction-specific judgments.However, Bitner and Hubbert (1994) determined that service encounter satisfaction was quite distinct from overall satisfaction and perceived quality. Adding to the debate about the distinction between service quality and satisfaction, customer satisfaction has also been operationalzed as a multidimensional construct along the same dimensions that constitute service
quality (Sureshchandar, Rajendran, and Anantharaman, 2002). Despite strong correlations
between service quality and customer satisfaction, the authors determined that the two constructs exhibited independence and concluded that they were in fact different constructs, at least from the customer’s point of view. Brady and Cronin (2001), endeavored to clarify the specification and nature of the service quality and satisfaction constructs and found empirical support for the conceptualization that service quality was an antecedent of the super ordinate satisfaction construct. In addition, the authors found that satisfaction explained a greater portion of the variance in consumers’ purchase intentions than service quali