Banovic, Marija and Barone, Ada Maria. 2021. The hybrid enigma: The importance of self-construal for the effectiveness of communication messages promoting sustainable behaviour. Food Quality and Preference, 94, 104334. ISSN 0950-3293 [Article]

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Transition towards more sustainable diets is imminent and marketers are looking for guidance on type of the advertising appeal that could effectively persuade consumers to buy products that could support this transition, such as hybrid products. While prior research has investigated the value of self-interest/-transcendent goal appeals and independent/interdependent self-construal, only a small number of studies have investigated these factors in combination. Therefore, we conducted a representative cross-national study involving almost 2000 consumers from Denmark, Spain, and the UK, to experimentally investigate the effect of self-interest (health) vs. self-transcendent goal (environment) and independent vs. interdependent self-construal on consumers’ attitudes. The results showed that perceived product quality mediates the effect of goals on consumers’ product attitudes, such that messages focused on the environment are more effective when interdependent self-construal is activated, while messages leveraging on health are more effective when independent self-construal is activated. This research suggests that advertising efforts and communication campaigns that rely on consumers’ goals should account for self-construal to induce higher levels of perceived product quality and efficiently boost consumers’ product attitudes and purchase behaviour.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2021.104334
Additional Information:	This study has received funding from EIT Food (https://www.eitfood.eu/) through the project “Consumer attitudes towards healthier processed meat products” (grant number: 20206, EIT Food Business Plan 2020).
Keywords:	Hybrid products, Goal, Self-construal, Perceived quality, Sustainability
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Institute of Management Studies
Dates:	Date Event 12 July 2021 Accepted 15 July 2021 Published Online December 2021 Published
Item ID:	30671
Date Deposited:	15 Nov 2021 10:32
Last Modified:	15 Nov 2021 10:32
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/30671

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