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The Factors Affecting the Usefulness of Information on the Purchase Intention with the Mediating Role of Up-to-Date Information on Instagram

Received: 16 July 2021    Accepted: 2 August 2021    Published: 5 November 2021
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Abstract

Social media has completely revamped the way people communicate, interact and engage with each other. The most important is this platform plays a main role in facilitating greater influence. Most studies on social influencer marketing techniques have focused on identifying the features of social media influencers whereas little is known about the electronic Word-of-mouth promotion of products. The present experimental study investigated the factors affecting the usefulness of information on Instagram on the clothing purchase intention with the mediating role of up-to-date information on Instagram as a famous and practical social media in today's world. The study was conducted on 10 clothing stores that sell their products through Instagram. In simple random sampling method with the help of the NinjaGram robot has been used. The questionnaire was prepared electronically which are 384 people. SPSS and LISREL software was used to analyze the data. The results show that the attitude of using Instagram has a direct positive effect on the usefulness of information, the level of risk-taking, and the level of self-confidence on the intention to buy on Instagram. In addition, the usefulness of information affects the Up-to-date information on Instagram and up-to-date information has a direct positive effect on creating the intention to buy on Instagram.

Published in American Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Volume 6, Issue 2)
DOI 10.11648/j.ajdmkd.20210602.11
Page(s) 16-23
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Keywords

Purchase Intention, Useful Information, Up-to-Date Information, Instagram, Social Media

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  • Sociology Department, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran

  • Business Department, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran

  • Business Department, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran

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