RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
To summarize, our results indicated that pleasure
and arousal correlated strongly with impulsive
buying behavior, whereas consumers’ experienced
dominance as insignificant variable for their
impulsive buying intention. Evidence was provided
which clearly indicated that arousal, pleasure and
dominance were significant predictors of both
impulsive buying behavior and impulsive buying
intention. The results suggest that arousal, which is
the degree to which one feels stimulated, excited
and frenzied, and pleasure which is the degree to
which one feels happy, pleased, and satisfied is most
strongly related to impulsive buying. Besides,
shopping emotions of both pleasure and arousal
were significantly associated with impulsive buying
intention. Thus, a relatively strong relationship
between shopping emotions and impulsive buying
was supported, and our study confirms earlier
findings that impulsive buying is accompanied by
intense feeling states. On the other hand, perceived
risk yielded mixed results related to impulsive
buying. The logistic regression results provided
encouraging support for the significantly negative
relationship between perceived risk and impulsive
buying. However, the multiple regression tests
generated a different outcome and showed that
perceived risk was not correlated with impulsive
buying intention.
On the whole, the study suggests that shopping
emotions are important predictors of impulsive
buying intention, yet perceived risk is a significant
variable that directly affects impulsive buying
behaviors. Besides, results from the moderated
regression analysis showed that buying
impulsiveness trait had a significant moderating
effect on the relationship between pleasure and
impulsive buying intention. While the level of
pleasure, experienced and dominance when seeing
the product, was a significant predictor of impulsive
buying intention, the effect was moderated by
consumers’ characteristic of buying impulsiveness