Demystifying the impact of self-indulgence and self-control on customer-employee rapport and customer happiness

Johra Fatima, Rita Di Mascio, Piyush Sharma

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Abstract

Past research mostly ignores the link between customers' purchase orientations and their engagement with frontline service employees. This paper addresses this gap by using socio-emotional selectivity theory to investigate the effects of customers’ self-indulgence/control on their rapport building efforts with frontline service employees and on their own happiness. It also explores the moderating effects of age, gender and shopping day on the impact of self-indulgence/control on happiness. Data from 252 Australian customers shows that self-control has no significant influence on rapport or happiness while rapport and self-indulgence positively affect happiness. Finally, all the moderating effects only find partial support.

Original languageEnglish
Article number101967
Pages (from-to)1-7
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Retailing and Consumer Services
Volume53
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2020

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