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Coping With Negative Emotions in Purchase‐Related Situations

Sunghwan Yi; Hans Baumgartner

Journal of Consumer Psychology 2004

We investigate how consumers manage stressful emotional experiences in purchase‐related situations. Eight coping strategies that consumers may use to deal with stressful incidents are distinguished and hypotheses are formulated about which coping strategies are linked to each of four different negative emotions (anger, disappointment, regret, and worry). The findings indicate that distinct strategies are employed by consumers to cope with different emotions, or the problem that caused these emotions, and that the emotion‐coping relations are generalizable across two samples of respondents.

DOI
10.1207/s15327663jcp1403_11
Volume
14 (3)
Pages
303-317
Language
en
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