Kokkinaki, Flora
Karantinou, Kalipso
Tsogas, Markos
Andronikidis, Andreas
Skarmeas, Dionysios
Baltas, George
Argouslidis, Paraskevas
It is commonly held that Emotional Intelligence (henceforth EI) in terms of a human's ability to understand, regulate, and facilitate emotions in the self and in others has profound effects on several aspects of human life. An extensive literature provides evidence for the effects of EI on personal performance (Law et al., 2004; Ermer et al.,2012), interpersonal effectiveness (Mayer et al., 2004; Rode et al., 2007),psychological well-being, (Day et al., 2005; Mayer et al., 2008), quality of social interactions (Lopes et al., 2004; Lopes et al., 2005, and decision-making process(Kidwell et al., 2008; Kidwell et al., 2015). For example, Eisenberg (2000) underlines that, as an aspect of EI, emotion regulation has an influential role in shaping ethical behavior and leads individuals to ethical decisions (Eisenberg, 2000). Extending this finding in consumption decisions, Kidwell et al. (2008) suggest that EI gives individuals the opportunity to make decisions of higher quality and avoid impulsive behaviors such as overeating (Kidwell et al. 2008; Kidwell et al. 2015). Although EI has the dynamic to form consumption decisions and improve marketing exchanges, it has received little attention in the domains of ethical behavior and impulsive purchasing. Finally, researchers have commonly found that important determinants of impulsive and ethical consumption maybe one’s regulatory focus (i.e.promotion/prevention focus) (Sengupta and Zhou, 2007; De Bock and Kenhove,2010), individualism/collectivism Peck and Childers, 2006; Zhang and Shrum, 2009;Mooijman et al., 2017; Simpson et al., 2018), and emotional affect (Verplanken and Herabadi, 2001; Wheatley and Haidt, 2005; Grant and Wrzesniewski, 2010;Verplanken and Sato, 2011; Chen et al., 2014). However, only a few studies have explored the connection of such variables to EI. The present thesis aims at exploring the effects of EI on impulsive and ethical consumption, through an investigation of the process that underlies these effects. Three surveys used self-reported scales to investigate a) the main effects of EIon impulsive and ethical consumption, b) the mediating role of the self-regulatoryfocus (i.e. prevention/promotion), and c) the moderating effect of emotional affect andindividualism/collectivism. Consistent with the background of Eisenberg (2000) andKidwell et al. (2008), the results indicate that EI causes a decline in impulsive and anincrease in ethical consumption. It is also shown that a) the prevention and thepromotion foci mediate the relationship between EI and ethical consumption and b)the positive affect weakens the negative association between EI and impulsiveconsumption (i.e. the negative main effect becomes less negative).To the best of our knowledge, the proposed conceptualization and associationshave not yet been addressed explicitly and jointly by extant research. As such, thisthesis contributes theoretically and managerially. From a theoretical perspective, itfills an important gap in the literature of consumer behavior, through an investigationinto whether EI enables consumers to adopt ethical consumption patterns and avoidimpulsive consumption. From a managerial standpoint, it provides consumer goods’manufacturers with empirically-based guidelines for better new product developmentprocesses (e.g. ones that focus on product attributes and characteristics that promoteethical consumption and prevent impulsive consumption).
Αυθόρμητη κατανάλωση
Συναισθηματική νοημοσύνη
Ethical consumption
Impulsive consumption
Emotional intelligence