Does Perceived Advertising Value Alleviate Advertising Avoidance in Mobile Social Media? Exploring Its Moderated Mediation Effects

Xiaolong Wei, Ilsang Ko and Alison Pearce
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Xiaolong Wei: School of Management, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, China
Ilsang Ko: College of Business Administration, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, Korea
Alison Pearce: Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE7 7YT, UK

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 14, issue 1, 1-21

Abstract: It is known that perceived intrusiveness and privacy concerns, mediated by irritation, indirectly affect advertising avoidance. This research attempts to verify the importance of perceived advertising value by investigating its moderated mediation effect on the links between those endogenous variables. The research model was empirically verified with data derived from 374 valid off-line responses. Analysis found that both perceived intrusiveness and privacy concerns increased irritation in using mobile social media. Irritation caused by perceived intrusiveness and privacy concerns had positive mediating effects on advertising avoidance. Ubiquity increased perceived intrusiveness and privacy concerns, whereas personalization reduced perceived intrusiveness. Customization increased perceived intrusiveness, whereas informativeness significantly reduced it. Social interaction increased privacy concerns, whereas social integration decreased them. The moderated mediation effect of perceived advertising value among women was negative. In the low-exposure group, a negative moderated mediation effect of perceived advertising value on the relationship between irritation and advertising avoidance was also found.

Keywords: perceived advertising value; advertising avoidance; perceived intrusiveness; privacy concerns; irritation; mobile social media (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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