Consumer delight and outrage: scale development and validation
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to develop and validate measurement scales for consumer delight and outrage.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper used both qualitative, survey, and experiment methodology.
Findings
First, develop and validate the scale of customer delight, second, conceptualize the construct of customer outrage, as well as develop and validate its scale; third, explore the differential behavioral results of delight vs satisfaction, and outrage vs dissatisfaction; and fourth, further our understanding of the satisfaction-dissatisfaction continuum.
Originality/value
While researchers increasingly recognize that delight and outrage are distinct from satisfaction and dissatisfaction, it is important to have scales that differentiate between these constructs. To this end, this paper develops and validates scales to measure consumer delight and outrage, respectively. These scales will be useful to other researchers interested in measuring consumer delight and outrage in various research contexts.
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Acknowledgements
This research is supported by funds from National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 71102008 and 71472105) and the Beijing Youth Elite Plan (No. YETP0136).
Citation
Liu, M.W. and Keh, H.T. (2015), "Consumer delight and outrage: scale development and validation", Journal of Service Theory and Practice, Vol. 25 No. 6, pp. 680-699. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSTP-08-2014-0178
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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