The influence of online shopping motivation and product browsing toward impulsive buying of fashion products on a social commerce

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the direct and indirect influence of onlineshopping motivation and product browsing on impulsive buying, where productbrowsing as a mediation variable between online shopping motivation and impulsivebuying. This study is quantitative. Questionnaires were distributed to women whohave purchased fashion product in social commerce, i.e., Instagram as the targetrespondents. Using a convenience sampling technique, a total sample of 300respondents were obtained. Hypotheses were tested using Structural Equation Model(SEM). The results showed that online shopping motivation on hedonic motivationvariable has a significantly direct effect on product browsing and impulsive buying,while utilitarian motivation variable has significantly direct effect only on productbrowsing. Other than that the product browsing variable has a significantly directeffect on impulsive buying and it's mediating between online shopping motivationand impulsive buying.