Continuance Usage Intention toward E-Payment during the COVID-19 Pandemic from the Financial Sustainable Development Perspective Using Perceived Usefulness and Electronic Word of Mouth as Mediators

Tsai-Ling Liu, Tyrone T. Lin and Shu-Yen Hsu
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Tsai-Ling Liu: Department of International Business, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien 974301, Taiwan
Tyrone T. Lin: Department of International Business, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien 974301, Taiwan
Shu-Yen Hsu: Department of International Business, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien 974301, Taiwan

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 13, 1-23

Abstract: Digital transformation is essential to financial sustainable development. Since the beginning of 2020, the whole world has been under the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has accelerated the pace of financial digitization. According to the perceived usefulness of the technology acceptance model (TAM) and the perceived seriousness of the health belief model (HBM), this study developed and explored the theoretical framework of consumers’ continuance usage intention toward e-payment. A questionnaire survey was conducted to explore this continuance usage intention among consumers who have used e-payment in Taiwan during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a total of 387 valid samples. The overall model was analyzed by structural equation modeling (SEM). The empirical results showed that the security, perceived seriousness, and perceived usefulness of e-payment significantly affect electronic word of mouth (eWOM), while the security and perceived seriousness of e-payment have a significant effect on continuance usage intention through perceived usefulness and eWOM. During the COVID-19 pandemic, e-payment providers should encourage consumers to use e-payment via eWOM, perceived usefulness, and consumers’ perceived health seriousness and should improve the use efficiency of e-payment through e-payment financial services, thus encouraging consumers’ continuance usage intention toward e-payment.

Keywords: e-payment; continuance usage intention; perceived usefulness; COVID-19; health belief model; technology acceptance model; electronic word of mouth; security; structural equation modeling; financial sustainable development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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