<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The relation between the personality of consumers and their buying behavior has been a very much debated topic in the field of marketing researches. Several studies have shown that personality has a significant influence on the way consumer behave in their social and economic environment, in the way they approach and accept innovations and new developed products or even in their shopping behavior. This paper presents the influence of the Myers-Briggs personality dichotomies on the impulsive consumer behavior and the openness to buy newly launched products. Discriminant analysis was used to evaluate primary collected data and the core results show that extroverted, feeling-based decision-makers and perception oriented persons have more frequently an impulsive buying behavior at shopping sessions. Extroverts and intuition based consumers are more open to new products. The temptation to buy attractive unplanned products is higher for extroverts, feeling based decision makers and perceiving persons. Despite of this, none of the personality dichotomies influences the amount and care for spending in stores, this being influenced by other independent factors, mainly economic ones.</p></abstract>

The relation between the personality of consumers and their buying behavior has been a very much debated topic in the field of marketing researches. Several studies have shown that personality has a significant influence on the way consumer behave in their social and economic environment, in the way they approach and accept innovations and new developed products or even in their shopping behavior. This paper presents the influence of the Myers-Briggs personality dichotomies on the impulsive consumer behavior and the openness to buy newly launched products. Discriminant analysis was used to evaluate primary collected data and the core results show that extroverted, feeling-based decision-makers and perception oriented persons have more frequently an impulsive buying behavior at shopping sessions. Extroverts and intuition based consumers are more open to new products. The temptation to buy attractive unplanned products is higher for extroverts, feeling based decision makers and perceiving persons. Despite of this, none of the personality dichotomies influences the amount and care for spending in stores, this being influenced by other independent factors, mainly economic ones.

The influence of personality types on the impulsive buying behavior of a consumer

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The relation between the personality of consumers and their buying behavior has been a very much debated topic in the field of marketing researches. Several...

The influence of personality types on the impulsive buying behavior of a consumer

Published Online: Jun 15, 2018

Page range: 751 - 759

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/picbe-2018-0067

Keywords
consumer behavior, personality, impulsive behavior, innovative products, discriminant analysis

© 2018 Corina Pelau, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

The influence of personality types on the impulsive buying behavior of a consumer

Published Online: Jun 15, 2018

Page range: 751 - 759

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/picbe-2018-0067

Keywordsconsumer behavior, personality, impulsive behavior, innovative products, discriminant analysis

© 2018 Corina Pelau, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
consumer behavior, personality, impulsive behavior, innovative products, discriminant analysis