Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study the consumers brand self-congruence for self-gifts, self gift-giving motivations, and the relationships of these two variables. Survey research was employed by using an online questionnaire to collect the data. Sample of the 400 consumers aged 20 years and over and had purchased self-gifts within the past 6 months. The research results showed that the overall mean of the samples actual self-congruence with self-gift brands (x̄ = 5.6) was higher than the overall mean of their ideal self-congruence (x̄ = 5.5). Also, the sample bought the self-gift brands that were congruent with their actual selves (x̄ = 5.9). Additionally, top three of the samples self gift motivations were when you want to do good to yourself, when you want to reward yourself, and when you have money to spare respectively. When testing the hypotheses, the results showed that the samples actual self-congruence (r= .351) and ideal-self congruence (r= .405) with self gift brands were positively related to their self gift motivations at a significant level of 0.01-0.001. Also, the samples brand self-congruence with self gifts was positively related to their self-gift motivations at a significant level of 0.001.