Abstract (eng)
The current study is about figuring out, how the Kindchenschema (Lorenz, 1943) takes influence on the attitude towards print adverts and the purchase intention of the products, advertised in these. Above all, the differences caused by the socio-demographic features Gender and Age play an important role.
After depicting relevant research results, including those of psychological studies, as well as portraying the theoretical concepts of the Kindchenschema (Lorenz, 1943) and the Elaboration Likelihood Model (Petty/Cacioppo, 1983), the research questions and hypotheses are explained, based on the literature presented at the beginning.
Those research questions try to find out, how women and men as well as younger and older people differ in their attitude towards print adverts, making the Kindchenschema their advertising strategy, and their intention to purchase the products, which they have seen in the ads. The belonging hypotheses assume that women as well as younger people show a better attitude and a higher purchase intention.
The Data, collected by distributing an Online-Questionnaire on the social network Facebook and analyzed by using SPSS Statistics, show notably significant differences between the attitude of women and men towards the shown print adverts, using the Kindchenschema. The Age doesn’t seem to play a considerable role in the present work, which is at first owed to the limits, a master’s thesis involves.
An additional chapter shows furthermore the general significant positive Correlation of the attitude toward a print advert and the purchase intention in the current study.