Abstract:
The purpose of this independent study was to study demographic characteristics, marketing mix factors, and behaviors affecting the decision to use beauty clinic service. The samples consisted of 400 participants who were female customers, and the questionnaire was used as an instrument for data collection. Due to data analysis, statistics used for testing the differences included Independent Samples t-test and One-way ANOVA whereas Chi-Square Distribution was also used to test the relationships between variables the 0.05 significance level.
The results of the independent study revealed that the majority of the participants had ages ranging 21 to 30 years old, and their martial status was married. The level of education was lower than or equaled to high school while income was approximately between 10,001 to 20,000 Baht. Due to the factors affecting the decision to use the beauty clinic service, image and reputation of the beauty clinics were the most important factors in terms of product aspect while appropriateness and service quality were the most important factors in terms of price aspect. Regarding the place aspect, participants considered convenience of transportation as the most important factor while usually having advertisings through media was important in terms of promotion aspect. Moreover, reliability and expert of doctors were important in terms of people aspect service speed was very important in terms of process aspect. Finally, cleanness of the beauty clinic was considered important in terms of physical evidence. Regarding behaviors, most of
participants use the service for taking care of their skin to always look healthy, and the service program used was skin scrub and mask. A period of time to use the service was mostly from 4.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m., and they decided to use the service by themselves.
According to the hypothesis testing, different demographic characteristics considered the marketing mix factors in terms of product aspect differently, and demographic characteristics were related to behaviors in terms of reasons to use the service and service program selected.