Finally, H4 argues that trust of a web site is positively
associated with shoppers’ purchase intentions. Thus, this
hypothesis suggests that the purchase intentions of online
shoppers are significantly influenced by consumers’
evaluations and interpretations of web site trustworthiness.
Robust evidence in support of H4 emerges during structural
equation modeling (see Table I and Figure 2), producing a
highly significant estimated structural parameter between
trust of a web site and purchase intentions (g ¼ 0:498,
p , 0:001). This provides some empirical support for scholars
who have argued that trust is pivotal to generating e-loyalty
(e.g. Grewal et al., 2003; Harris and Goode, 2004). Thus, H4
is accepted