Abstract:
This is a study of the lifestyle and credit behaviors of car leasing customers at Thanachart Bank Public Company, Limited, in Surat Thani province. The primary purposes of the study were to study the customers lifestyles, their service behaviors, and the relationships between the customers demographic factors and their credit behaviors. A sample of 400 individuals was drawn from among the car leasing customers of Thanachart Bank Public Company Limited in Surat Thani. The researcher used questionnaires to collect data. SPSS for Windows was used to analyze the data using averages, standard deviations, and the Chi-Square test.
The results revealed the following:
1. Demographic factors data: The most frequently listed personal characteristics of the respondents were being female, being 36 to 45 years old, being married with children, having a bachelor's degree, being an employee of a private company or corporation, having monthly income between 15,001 and 25,000 Baht, and having monthly expenses between 10,000 and 15,000 Baht.
2. The lifestyles of the car leasing customers: The research data showed that the customers tended to give high ratings in all areas. The highest rating was in the area of interests, with the next highest rating being in the area of activities, and then in the area of opinions.
3. The credit behaviors of car leasing customers showed that the largest segments of these customers had credit lines of between 600,000 and 699,999 Baht, down payments of between 15.00 per cent and 24.99 per cent of the loan, and credit installments of between 10,000 and 14,999 Baht. The most common
installment length was for a 60 month period, installments were typically made by bank transfer, and the customers rarely defaulted on payments.
4. Hypothesis 1 suggested that demographic factors such as gender, age, status, education level, career, monthly income, and monthly expenses had direct correlations with the credit behaviors of the car leasing customers. This hypothesis was supported at a significance level of 0.05.
5. Hypothesis 2 was that lifestyle behaviors such as type of activity, interests, and opinions would be related to the credit behaviors of the car leasing customers. This hypothesis was supported at a significance level of 0.05.
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