trait. Finally, arousal becomes insignificant when
buying impulsiveness trait*pleasure enters the model
in the moderated regression analysis. This finding
is especially worthy of note since arousal has
constantly been a strong antecedent of behavioral
intentions and actual behaviors were examined.
Contrary to earlier research, which heavily relied on
behavioral intention measures, both impulsive
buying intention and impulsive buying behavior
were used in actual retail setting. The significant
influence of perceived risk on impulsive buying
behavior but its failure to predict impulsive buying
intention indicates that factors influencing impulsive
buying intention are not identical to factors that
affect impulsive buying behavior. Hence, purchase
intention is not always a precise estimate of
purchase behavior. Managers are encouraged to take
both impulsive buying intention and impulsive
buying behavior into account but pay more
attention to the variables that are directly associated
with impulsive buying behavior.
IMPLICATIONS
The practical implication of the shopping
emotions-impulsive buying relationship is that
consumers’ emotional states may affect the
consumer to purchase above their limits. Raising
consumers’ pleasure and dominance level can
stimulate their sudden impulse to buy. As another
significant predictor of impulsive buying behavior,
perceived risk calls for additional marketing
strategies. Companies should incorporate different
methods to reduce the amount of risk in buying
that consumers identify. Companies would also
benefit from a better understanding of individuals’
buying impulsiveness trait.
CONCLUSION
The insignificant relationship between perceived
risk and impulsive buying intention could be partly
attribute to the nature of purchase intention, which
is simply the willingness or desire to make a
purchase. It may be that consumers rely on their
emotions and feelings but do not consider the
degree of perceived risk when assessing their
willingness to make impulsive purchases. However,
they significantly do take perceived risk into
consideration in their actual purchases. When
perceived risks are high, consumers may favorably
evaluate their purchase intention but employ risk
handling activities to avoid impulsive buying. So,
perceived risk might act as a major impediment that
prevents consumers from actually making an
impulsive purchase.
An important finding is that the strength of the
relationship between shopping emotions and
impulsive buying varies with one’s buying
impulsiveness trait. Pleasurable shopping emotions
and dominance and perceived risk becomes an
important moderator of impulsive buying
intentions. In addition, there was no moderating
effect of buying impulsiveness trait on the arousalimpulsive
buying relationship. This study provides
a model that captures the multiple dimensions and
interrelationship between the factors important to
impulsive buying. The present study offers a
framework that incorporates the affective, cognitive
determinants and individual factors that are closely
related to impulsive buying, particularly in reference
to the effects of shopping emotions, perceived risk,
and buying impulsiveness trait are provided.