Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/311490 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour in Emerging Markets (JMCBEM) [ISSN:] 2449-6634 [Issue:] 1 [Year:] 2017 [Pages:] 63-71
Publisher: 
University of Warsaw, Faculty of Management, Warsaw
Abstract: 
Family is one of the most important socio-cultural factors which reflects on a man's behavior. Contemporarily, young people demonstrate much more market activity. Except for doing shopping, they also play roles of advisors who influence choices of individual members of households. Most often, in spite of coming of age and leaving family home, they still have an impact on the behavior of family members. The aim of this paper is to examine the influence of children over 18 (generation "Y") on parents' consumer decisions (generation "X" and Baby-Boomers). As a research method a quantitative survey analysis was applied which showed that children have a relevant influence on shopping decisions of adults. Moreover, there are differences in the assessment of this influence between children and parents. The degree of young people's impact on the shopping process of their parents is, among others, determined by age and sex of a child and a parent, the category of the product and its purpose. The limitation of the conducted analysis is the unrepresentative sample of respondents. The achieved results may be used by marketing specialists to deepen their understanding of consumer behavior of adult children and their parents and to properly address promotion messages.
Subjects: 
family
generation Y
consumer behaviour
young consumers
pester power
JEL: 
M00
D10
D70
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Document Type: 
Article

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