Until now, subjective age has little been used as a segmentation criterion because of its difficulty to access targets defined by this variable. This research demonstrates how subjective age defined from the individual interests, has an operational capacity to characterize the magazine audiences...

This paper explores the persuasive effects of different commercials for an analgesic on members of different age groups. Commercial content was manipulated to be either of (a) factual or (b) evaluative. The impact of these two contents was assessed on members of two different age groups: young...

This research suggests testing a model which allows comparing the answers of the older persons and the younger individuals to different advertising strategies. The results suggest that: (1) chronological age has an influence on affective and cognitive responses toward the different types of ads,...

This article focuses on the practices of resistance to intrusive advertising on the Internet. The analysis of 19 interviews reveals the existence of different resistance profiles when exposed to interstitial: functional resistance, ideological resistance, conative avoidance and non-resistance....

Ce papier s’intéresse à la pertinence du concept de coping dans l’appréhension des comportements de consommation des individus seniors. En particulier, il tente de définir une articulation entre le processus de vieillissement, générant un ensemble de stresseurs potentiels, les...

Recent research has highlighted the importance of trust in building and maintaining business relationships. This research addresses these findings and utilizes Macneil’s norm theory to develop a model illu strating the mediating role of trust in buyer-seller relationships and compare it to the...

From a conceptual framework based on developmental psychology and mechanisms of social comparison, this research proposes testing an explanatory model of the trend to see oneself as younger which is characteristic of seniors. The identification of antecedent variables of this tendency suggests a...

This paper focuses on the relevance of the coping concept in the understanding of the senior consumer behaviors. Particularly, it tries to define a link between the aging process, generating potential stressors, coping strategies used in order to cope with stress, and consumer behaviors. A short...