An investigation on the effects of personal characteristics on word of mouth advertisement

This paper presents a study to measure the effect of personal characteristics including neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, conscientiousness and agreeableness on word of mouth advertisement. The population of this survey includes all people who use mobile phone in city of Tehran, Ira...

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Main Authors: Hosseinali Aziziha, Seyed Shahab Mousavi, Reza Tahermanesh, Seyed Alireza Hosseini Tabatabaee, Elham Mirkamali
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Language:English
Published: Growing Science 2014-02-01
Series:Management Science Letters
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Online Access:http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol4/msl_2013_384.pdf
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description This paper presents a study to measure the effect of personal characteristics including neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, conscientiousness and agreeableness on word of mouth advertisement. The population of this survey includes all people who use mobile phone in city of Tehran, Iran. The study designs a questionnaire in Likert scape and distributes it among 400 randomly selected people who use mobile devices. Using Spearman correlation test, the study confirms the positive of effects of neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience on word of mouth advertisement and the negative impact of agreeableness on word of mouth advertisement. However, the study does not find any meaningful relationship between conscientiousness and word of mouth advertisement.
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spelling doaj-art-d1c486cee05f45308baf4ad0a50ed3052025-08-20T02:19:42ZengGrowing ScienceManagement Science Letters1923-29341923-93432014-02-014239339610.5267/j.msl.2013.12.010An investigation on the effects of personal characteristics on word of mouth advertisementHosseinali AzizihaSeyed Shahab MousaviReza TahermaneshSeyed Alireza Hosseini Tabatabaee Elham MirkamaliThis paper presents a study to measure the effect of personal characteristics including neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, conscientiousness and agreeableness on word of mouth advertisement. The population of this survey includes all people who use mobile phone in city of Tehran, Iran. The study designs a questionnaire in Likert scape and distributes it among 400 randomly selected people who use mobile devices. Using Spearman correlation test, the study confirms the positive of effects of neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience on word of mouth advertisement and the negative impact of agreeableness on word of mouth advertisement. However, the study does not find any meaningful relationship between conscientiousness and word of mouth advertisement.http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol4/msl_2013_384.pdfWord of mouth advertisementPersonal characteristicsMobile device
spellingShingle Hosseinali Aziziha
Seyed Shahab Mousavi
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An investigation on the effects of personal characteristics on word of mouth advertisement
Management Science Letters
Word of mouth advertisement
Personal characteristics
Mobile device
title An investigation on the effects of personal characteristics on word of mouth advertisement
title_full An investigation on the effects of personal characteristics on word of mouth advertisement
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title_short An investigation on the effects of personal characteristics on word of mouth advertisement
title_sort investigation on the effects of personal characteristics on word of mouth advertisement
topic Word of mouth advertisement
Personal characteristics
Mobile device
url http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol4/msl_2013_384.pdf
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