Effect of Celebrity Endorsement at Advertising on Compulsive buying: The role of the materialism mediator and the role of Self Confidence, desire to fashion and awareness moderator among young buyers

One of the types of purchases that today is an important social issue is the on compulsive buying that is the dark side of consumer behavior. Compulsive buyer try to hide their shopping activities because they are afraid that others will consider them to be the ones who are constantly buying. This disorder along with initial pleasure, is usually associated with feelings of guilt and regret.

The main goal of this study is to measure the effect of well-known advertisers on compulsive buying. In this research, the role of the level of consumer awareness, tendency to fashion and self-confidence as a moderator has been studied.

The current study is an applied research and regarding data collection is descriptive. The population in the present study includes all the young buyers of goods in the shops of the city of Bushehr who were chosen via non-random availability method. 385 questionnaires were evaluated. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze research data. The collected data was analyzed using the SPSS version 19 and Smart PLS softwares. Smart PLS is one of methods of the structural equation modeling

The results this study show well-known affirmation of advertising has a positive and significant effect on materialism. Also, increasing materialism will also increase compulsive buying. In this study, the effect of consumer awareness on materialism was confirmed, but its moderator role was not confirmed. In addition, the moderating effect of low level of involvement in the relationship of consumer’perception and impulse buying was also confirmed, while the moderating effects of consumer’mood and time pressure in the relationship of consumer’ perception on the impulse buying was not confirmed. Findings showed that increasing mood tends to increase compulsive buying, and reducing self-esteem leads to an increase in compulsive buying. But the moderating role of the two was not confirmed. The innovation of this research is the contribution of this research to measuring the impact of each of the materialist variables, using well-known advertisers in advertising, self-confidence, awareness and willingness to consumer fashion on compulsive shopping.