Abstract:
The purposes of this thesis were to study the influences of advertising types, product function, and self-monitoring personality on advertisement evaluation. Six products were used in this experiment to represent the three function categories. Utilitarian products were detergent and computer, social identity products were cloth and accessory; and multiple function products were car and mobile phone. The participants, who were 357 high and low self-monition undergraduate students of Chulalongkorn University, were asked to select one of four slogans and two out of six product claims that they would like to use in their advertisement. Then particpants were presented with two advertisements (image-oriented advertisement and quality-oriented advertisement) for a single product, then they were required to complete an advertisement ratings, and finally, to answer the self-monitoring scale. The results are as follow: 1. Individual differences in self-monitoring have no influence on advertisement evaluation. High and low self-monitoring persons react more favorably to image-oriented advertisement, both on their selection and evaluation. 2.Product function strongly influences the participants advertisement evaluation. For detergent, which is a utilitarian product, high and low self-monitoring do not differ in their evaluation. They prefer to use quality-oriented slogan and product claims, and have more positive attitude for quality-oriented advertisement than image-oriented advertisement. 3.For social identity products, both high and low self-monitoring persons do not differ in their evaluation. The slogan and product claims that are selected for cloth and accessory are predominantly image-oriented. Moreover, both high and low self-monitoring persons evaluate image-oriented advertisement more positively than quality-oriented advertisement. 4.For multiple function products, high and low self-monitoring persons do not differ in both car and mobile phone advertisement evaluation. They selected more social identity slogan and products claims, and like image-oriented advertisement more than quality-oriented advertisement.