Examining beliefs and attitudes toward advertising through sport among Serbian consumers

Abstract

The first purpose of this pilot study was to compare consumers’ attitudes towards advertising through sport with their attitudes towards advertising in general. The second purpose of this pilot study was to analyze the relationships between beliefs about and attitude towards advertising through sport, mostly due to the reason it was expected that enterprises should profit from the use of sport as an advertising medium and the identification of specified beliefs influencing to positive attitudes would enhance advertising strategies. The data was collected from randomly selected 127 students who attended University of Novi Sad during the autumn semester of 2013. The system of variables consist 39 items, modeled by seven-point Likert scale, of attitudes and beliefs about and eight demographic items that were modified from Pyun’s original items to fit each area. The factor analysis were employed to take the best item of each construct, while Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test was used to compare consum- ers’ attitudes towards advertising through sport with their attitudes towards advertising in general. Then, Optimal Scaling Method was employed to reveal the relationships between beliefs about and attitude towards advertising through sport. Expected, the customers’ attitudes towards advertising through sport were significantly more positive than their attitudes towards advertising in general. On the other hand, unexpected, just one (product information) of maximum seven belief constructs have significantly influenced attitude towards advertising through sport.