The influence of need for cognition and congruence of cautionary messages with alcohol advertisment on quality evaluation and attitude towards beer advertisment
Abstract:
To study the influence of need for cognition and congruence of cautionary message with alcohol advertisement on quality evaluation and attitude toward beer advertisement. Participant were 200 Chulalongkorn University undergraduate students. The design was 2 need for cognition (high vs. low) × 4 cautionary messages (spirit vs. drunk & drive vs. alcohol vs. beer) with 25 students randomly assigned into each cell. They viewed different cautionary message in beer advertisements and responded on attitude scale, quality evaluation, and a scale measuring desire to consume alcohol. The result are as follow: 1. Students who have seen congruence cautionary message with beer advertisement have not rated their attitude toward beer advertisement differently from students who have seen incongruence cautionary message with beer advertisement. 2. High need for cognition students significantly have lower score on attitude toward beer advertisement in drunk & drive condition than spirit, alcohol, and beer condition. 3. High need for cognition students significantly have lower quality evaluation score in drunk & drive condition than spirit and alcohol, but do not differ from beer condition 4. Low need for cognition students have not rate their quality evaluation and attitude score differently in for conditions. 5. High and low need for cognition students are not differed in terms of desire to consume alcohol.