The advent of experience economy provides a new perspective for the study of brand issues. In the 21st century of rapid economic development,with the rapid improvement of the livingstandards of chinese consumers,they not only pay attention to the satisfaction of quality and functional demand for products,but also have a stronger demand for self-expression.They enjoy the pleasant experience brought by products or brand consumption. At the same time, thousands of scholars have proposed that brand experience has obvious influence on the formation of brand loyalty, but there is still a lack of empirical research on the connection mechanism in this abstract process. Based on the theory of cognition emotion behavior and the fragmentary exploration of predecessors, we need to add a variable about emotion in the process of the influence of brand experience and brand loyalty. In recent years, as an important psychological and emotional variable, brand beloved has gradually emerged in the field of marketing and has been noticed by researchers. According to the published literature, this emotional variable is affected by brand experience, and it is also the pre variable of the dependent variable of brand loyalty. Therefore, we can make a bold guess that it is the intermediary variable in the process of experiencing loyalty.
Based on the cognitive emotional behavioral theory, self reinforcement theory and " S-O-R " model , this paper constructs the path and research model of the effect of brand experience on consumers ' brand loyalty , and tests the mediating role o f brand beloved in brand experience . This paper introduces self consistency as a moderating variable to explore its moderating effect on the relationship between brand beloved and brand loyalty, and its impact on the whole mediating role. It further clarifies the relationship among brand experience, brand beloved and brand loyalty, and the boundary conditions for brand beloved to play a mediating role. In this paper, a total of 385 valid questionnaires were collected through questionnaire survey. Spss25.0 (including process plug-in) and amos23.0 were used to analyze the reliability and validity, correlation analysis, ANOVA and regression analysis of the collected data, and the research hypotheses were tested.
The main conclusions of this study are as follows: (1) brand experience, brand favorite, brand loyalty and self consistency have significant differences in demographic variables such as occupation and monthly income; (2) the three dimensions of brand experience: sensory experience, emotional experience and thinking experience have positive effects on brand loyalty. (3) Brand favorite plays an intermediary role between brand experience and brand loyalty. (4) Self consistency plays a moderating role between brand favorite and brand loyalty, and indirectly moderates the impact of brand experience on brand loyalty.
The main theoretical values of this study are as follows: (1) combined with consumers' purchase of sports brands, this paper makes a targeted research on the brand experience of sensory, emotional and thinking levels. (2) It reveals the influence mechanism between brand experience and brand loyalty. (3) It enriches the empirical research on self consistency as a moderating variable. According to the conclusions of this paper, we can draw the following management enlightenment: (1) create multi-dimensional extraordinary brand experience; (2) focus on cultivating consumers' brand affection; (3) shape the enterprise's personalized brand image and improve consumers' self consistency level.