Abstract:
This research aimed to study and to compare opinions of buyers and visitors of Thanyaphirom village project on trust, corporate image, perceived service quality and word of mouth, to examine the correlation between trust, corporate image, perceived service quality and word of mouth, and to investigate trust, corporate image, perceived service quality to predict word of mouth of buyers and visitors of Thanyaphirom village project.
The samples consisted of 389 respondents. Statistics used for data analysis were the percentage, average, and standard deviation. Hypothesis testing used t-test and F-test. Pearson product-moment Correlation Coefficient was used for the correlation analysis, and the predictability for the word of mouth used Multiple Regression.
The results showed that 1) the opinions of the buyers and visitors towards trust, corporate image, perceived service quality and word of mouth were rated at the high level. 2) The buyers and visitors of the Thanyaphirom village project with different genders, ages, occupations, and monthly incomes had different overall opinions on the trust. 3) The buyers and visitors with different genders, levels of education, occupations and monthly incomes had different overall opinions on the corporate image. 4) The buyers and visitors with different occupations and monthly incomes had different overall opinions on perceived service quality. 5) The buyers and visitors with different genders, ages, levels of education, occupations, and monthly incomes did not have different overall opinions about the word of mouth. 6) The trust, corporate image and perceived service quality positively correlated to the word of mouth with a statistical significance level of 0.01. 7) The corporate image, perceived service quality, and trust could predict the word of mouth with a significance level of 0.05. The predictability of word of mouth was 44.4 Percent, and its error was ±.18.