The past decade has seen the meteoric rise of social media.This has resulted in the emergence of new online communities, improved forums for exchanging ideas and opinions, and a wealth of original content produced by regular Internet users (Młodkowska, 2019; Tankovska, 2021). As a result of this trend, social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter have amassed over 4 billion combined monthly active users (Statista, 2021b). Via these mediums, users can meet and make friends with other people from all over the world, as well as learn about and discuss current events, solve problems, and promote their own products and services (Chen & Dermawan, 2020). Social media content spreads rapidly and widely (Simi et al., 2019). Marketers may reach a far wider audience and spread the word about their brands, products, and services thanks to this viral quality, which creates the optimal situation for doing so in a number of active communities (Voramontri & Klieb, 2019).
Additionally, social media enables consumers to access product information, reviews, and recommendations, which can also influence their purchasing decisions (Chin et al., 2018). Utilizing social media for marketing can greatly impact the intention of consumers to purchase beauty and personal care products through increased brand awareness, trust, and access to product information (El-zoghby, Elsamadicy, & Negm, 2021). This proposed research can help marketing firms and beauty and self-care care product companies to understand the impact of social media marketing on consumer purchasing behaviour and help them to develop more effective marketing strategies to increase consumer purchase intentions.
Social media has changed consumer behaviour in recent years. Consumers use Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to research items, read reviews, and interact with brands (Bhatnagar, 2016). More information and control over the buying process have empowered customers. Recent study shows that social media affects consumer behaviour in numerous ways:
The fields of cosmetics and personal hygiene are in a state of continuous development, with new practises, products, and fashions appearing on a regular basis. Because of the wide and varied audience that can be reached through social media advertising and content, it has become an increasingly crucial marketing strategy for businesses in this sector in recent years (Gani et al., 2022). Despite this, knowledge of social media's impact on customers' decisions in the beauty and personal care industries is limited. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of cosmetics and toiletry advertisements on consumers' propensity to make purchases online. To further understand what motivates consumers to buy these products, this study will use the TPB as its guiding theory (Ajzen, 1991). According to the TPB, three factors—attitude one's towards the conduct in question, the normative norms surrounding the activity, and one's impression of their own control over the behavior—influence one's actual behaviour. The topic at hand is the shopper's propensity to spend money on cosmetics and toiletries (Liu, Bao & Zheng, 2019).
In today's tech-driven world, understanding how social media advertising affects consumers' propensity to buy cosmetics and toiletries is crucial. Companies in the beauty and personal care business must grasp how social media marketing affects customer decision-making as social media platforms become more influential. First, this study will illuminate beauty and personal care consumer behaviour (Majumder, Giri, & Gangopadhyay, 2023). This study will provide light on how social media marketing influences customers' decisions to purchase cosmetics and personal care items. This insight will help beauty and personal care companies understand consumer preferences, motivations, and behaviours and customise their marketing efforts (Lakmal et al., 2019). Second, this research will help beauty and personal care companies use social media marketing to impact consumer behaviour. Beauty and personal care companies can gain a competitive edge by using social media to engage consumers and influence their purchase decisions (Henriques & Patnaik, 2021). This data can help marketers create more targeted and effective social media marketing strategies, increasing customer engagement, brand awareness, and sales.
The purpose of this study is to investigate how advertising, promotions, and brand presence across social media channels affect consumers' propensity to buy cosmetics and personal care items. The study's scope also includes investigating the moderating or mediating effects of demographic variables such as age, gender, ethnic background, and use of social media patterns on the relation between social media advertising and consumers' propensity to buy cosmetics and toiletries (Binwani & Ho, 2019). Primary data, in the form of surveys or interviews, will be gathered from the study's intended demographic of beauty and personal care industry consumers. Self-reporting biases, small sample sizes, geographical restrictions, and the ever-changing social media landscape and business climate are all potential obstacles that could reduce the generalizability of the results (Zhouyan, Yingpei, & Lu, 2020). Despite these limitations, the study will add to the field's body of knowledge and offer valuable insights for the beauty and personal care industries (Hassan et al., 2021).
Social media marketing |
The application of social media to market a product or service. |
Consumers' intention to purchase |
The likelihood that a consumer will make a purchase as a result of a product or service promotion on social media (Takaya, 2018). |
Beauty and personal care products |
Products related to personal grooming, hygiene, and cosmetics (Durga Varma & Subha, 2023). |
Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) |
A concept positing that a person's actions are influenced by their attitude towards the action, the perceived societal expectations related to the action, and their perceived control over the action (Ajzen, 1991). |
Attitude |
The individual's evaluation or appraisal of an object, behaviour, or issue. |
Subjective norms |
The perceived social pressure to conform to a certain behaviour (Kahraman & Kazançoğlu, 2019). |
Perceived behavioural control |
An individual's perception of how difficult or easy it is to engage in a specific behavior. |
Through numerous research efforts were carried out in studying influence of personal care associated with social media marketing to purchase intentions, there were significant limitations as listed above such as poor study design, limited sample size and geographical region, and limitations in the scope of the study as well as poor sample selection techniques, limited population segment (Nguyen et al., 2021). Many studies also were limited to certain specific regions like India, Spain, Italy, Indonesia, Thailand and Egypt, it will be beneficial to conduct further research on a global scale to generalize the results (Kartawinata, n.a.). Some studies also focus on certain aspects like sustainability concerns, and ignored the core marketing themes (Malik & Kaur, 2022). Brand related context also has been highly ignored in the previous studies. The focus of using TPB model was very exclusive in existing literature. The TPB model can be enhanced by combining the theories of other related models and improved (Ma et al., 2020).
There is a lack of studies examining how social media marketing affects consumers' intentions to buy cosmetics and other personal care items, despite the expanding literature on the topic. Despite studies on social media marketing's effects on brand awareness, attitude, and purchase intention, there is little study on how it affects customers' intention to buy beauty and personal care items (Murphy, & Kilgour, 2018). Furthermore, the beauty and personal care product category has received very little attention in the current literature; instead, more attention has been paid to more broad categories of consumer products (Nguyen et al., 2021). Therefore, there is a need for more investigation to address this research vacuum and provide significant insights into the influence of social media marketing on consumers' desire to purchase beauty and personal care products.
Ajzen's (1991), Theory of Planned action (TPB) is a social cognitive model employed in social psychology to provide an explanation for the seeming complexities of human action in terms of deliberate choice. This theory proposes that intention is the best candidate for the role of predictive variable. The goal, which reflects the reasons and cognitive planning behind the conduct, is defined by three fundamental cognitive elements: subjective norm, attitude, and perceived behavioural control. One's capacity for deliberate control over perceptual actions is typically directly related to one's subjective norm and attitude towards conduct.
TPB investigates ideas related to consumer behaviour. TPB investigates the interplay between social context, attitude, and sense of agency. It examines the effect that these variables have on a person's decision to engage in a certain behaviour and their subsequent behaviour. In the context of social media marketing, TPB can be used to investigate the effects of consumers' preexisting beliefs and attitudes towards a brand or product, as well as their perceptions of the brand's social norms and the perceived ease or difficulty of obtaining the product, on their intentions to engage with the brand on social media and make a purchase. This theory can help us understand how customers decide what they think of a brand, how much social pressure they feel to conform, and how simple or complicated they think it is to get their hands on that brand (Ma et al., 2020).
The Theory of Planned Behavior, sometimes known as TPB, is a well-known theoretical model in the field of social psychology that analyses people's intentions towards their behaviour. It has found several uses in many aspects of human existence (Bashir et al., 2019). Attitude towards the activity, subjective norms associated to the behavior, and the impression of behavioural control are all factors that the TPB says impact an individual's intention towards a certain behaviour. Numerous studies have expanded and refined the TPB idea, and it has even found a home in the beauty and personal care sector.
According to the TPB, a consumer's actions are influenced by their perspective on the action, the social norms around the action, and the degree to which they feel in control of the action (Rameez & Kulathunga, 2019). The desired behaviour in this case is the purchase of cosmetics and personal care items, and the factors that influence this behaviour are the consumer's attitude towards the products, the consumer's sense of social pressure to purchase, and the consumer's sense of agency in making the purchase decision (Olsson, Huck & Friman, 2018). During the past few decades, social psychologists have presented a variety of models in an effort to better anticipate and understand human behaviours (Zhang et al., 2015). The TPB is a popular model because its predictions about human behaviour are commonly acknowledged as being accurate.
Three factors—subjective norms, perceived behavioural control, and attitudes towards the behaviour in question—combine to generate behavioural intents, as proposed by the TPB (Ajzen, 1991). The hypothesis is illustrated conceptually in Figure 1. To have a "attitude" towards a certain action is to have a "opinion or appraisal of the action that is either positive or negative." Attitudes consist of three primary parts: feelings, thoughts, and deeds. Affect is the first part. The customer's emotional reaction to the goods is at the heart of this factor. Cognition is the second part. This part is the consumer's preconceived notions or information about the product. The final part is made up of actions. The propensity to choose a particular course of action in relation to one's perspective on the product is the focus of this factor. The "perceived peer pressure to perform or not carry out the behaviour" is an example of a subjective standard. In the end, we look at people's "perceived behavioural control," or how much they think they can influence their own actions. So, a person's obvious intent to engage in a behaviour is more likely if they have a high level of confidence in their capacity to manage their behaviour. On the other hand, the concept of "behavioural intention" describes an individual's preparedness to do the behaviour in question, with the underlying premise that this preparedness must exist prior to the action being taken (Ajzen, 1991).
According to the TPB empirical study model, consumer behaviour is influenced by three factors: the consumer's attitude towards the behaviour, the social norms around the behaviour, and the consumer's impression of control over the behaviour (Ajzen, 1991). Numerous academic fields—from psychology and sociology to business and advertising—can benefit from the TPB's theoretical framework.
The TPB model's predictions are often checked through quantitative research methods. Most quantitative studies rely on surveys and experiments to acquire data (Apuke, 2017). Attitudes, social norms, and perceived control over behaviour are gathered through surveys, and their effects on behaviour are tested through studies. The purpose of this survey-based study is to learn how clients feel about a new cosmetics and personal care product, if they feel social pressure to acquire the product, and how much control they believe they have over their purchasing decision (Ponto, 2015).
Audiences: Women and men who are exposed to advertisements for cosmetics and personal care items on social media.
Sampling technique: Participants are drawn at random from the target population in simple random sampling. When dealing with a big and varied population, this tactic proves effective.
To better understand the elements influencing consumer behaviour in the beauty and personal care industry, a study was conducted using the Theory of Planned Behaviour to investigate the impact of social media marketing on customers' desire to buy beauty and self-care items. Among the findings that this investigation could produce are:
Based on these findings, the study would make recommendations for beauty and personal care companies on social media marketing strategies efficiently to influence consumers' intention to purchase their products. Potential effects of social media marketing on consumers' purchasing decisions could potentially be shown in the research. Therefore, it is hoped that this study will provide both businesses and consumers in the beauty and personal care industries with useful insights into the ways in which social media marketing influences consumer behaviour.
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