title: Measurement of self-evaluative motives: a shopping scenario.
abstract: To develop measures of consumers' self-evaluative motives of Self-verification, Self-enhancement, and Self-improvement within the context of a mall shopping environment, an initial set of 49 items was generated by conducting three focus-group sessions. These items were subsequently converted into shopping-dependent motive statements. 250 undergraduate college students responded on a 7-point scale to each statement as these related to the acquisition of recent personal shopping goods. An exploratory factor analysis yielded five factors, accounting for 57.7% of the variance, three of which corresponded to the Self-verification motive (five items), Self-enhancement motive (three items), and Self-improvement motive (six items). These 14 items, along with 9 reconstructed items, yielded 23 items retained and subjected to additional testing. In a final round of data collection, 169 college students provided data for exploratory factor analysis. 11 items were used in confirmatory factor analysis. Analysis indicated that the 11-item scale adequately captured measures of the three self-evaluative motives. However, further data reduction produced a 9-item scale with marked improvement in statistical fit over the 11-item scale.
authors.affiliation: Slippery Rock University, USA.
authors.forename: Theresa A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Wajda
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kolbe
authors.forename: Michael Y
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Annie Peng
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Cui
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003132:Commerce; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D012647:Self-Assessment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires