TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring Adolescent Influence Tactics With Parents in Family Vacation Decisions
T2 - A Comparable Scale Across 19 Societies
AU - Su, Che Jen
AU - Liao, Hsin Hsing
AU - Lorgnier, Nicolas
AU - Yen, Wen Shen
AU - Bouchet, Patrick
AU - Hirooka, Yuichi
AU - Jallouli, Rim
AU - Roberts-Lombard, Mornay
AU - Lan, Yi Fang
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2019.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - Exhibiting evidence of the applicability of scales developed in one society to other societies is a critical issue in establishing the general models of consumer behavior. This study investigates the measurement model of adolescent influence tactics with their parents in family vacation decision making in 19 societies. By conducting a series of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, adolescent influence behavior emerges in a refined and validated model of four subscales indicating its construct equivalence across societies. Procrustes rotation assessing the similarity of each society’s factor structure reveals a substantial degree of metric equivalence. Moreover, the original measures of influence tactics were relatively free from cross-cultural response bias, achieving the necessary degree of scalar equivalence. Our findings not only furnish future empirical research with cross-societal evidence of the generalized model of measuring adolescent influence behaviors but also highlight the participative role that adolescents play in family vacation decisions.
AB - Exhibiting evidence of the applicability of scales developed in one society to other societies is a critical issue in establishing the general models of consumer behavior. This study investigates the measurement model of adolescent influence tactics with their parents in family vacation decision making in 19 societies. By conducting a series of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, adolescent influence behavior emerges in a refined and validated model of four subscales indicating its construct equivalence across societies. Procrustes rotation assessing the similarity of each society’s factor structure reveals a substantial degree of metric equivalence. Moreover, the original measures of influence tactics were relatively free from cross-cultural response bias, achieving the necessary degree of scalar equivalence. Our findings not only furnish future empirical research with cross-societal evidence of the generalized model of measuring adolescent influence behaviors but also highlight the participative role that adolescents play in family vacation decisions.
KW - adolescent influence tactics
KW - family vacation decisions
KW - measurement equivalence
KW - multigroup exploratory factor analysis
KW - the Commonwealth Research Program
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85062832208&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/2158244019835950
DO - 10.1177/2158244019835950
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85062832208
SN - 2158-2440
VL - 9
JO - SAGE Open
JF - SAGE Open
IS - 1
ER -