Testing the Underlying Structure of a Store Image Scale
- 7 September 1994
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Educational and Psychological Measurement
- Vol. 54 (3), 628-645
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0013164494054003006
Abstract
This research verified the underlying structure of retail store image. Confirmatory factor analyses were used to test a store image scale based on the work of Zimmer and Golden and others. Findings revealed that the responses of subjects to three different retail image exemplars, comprising three between-subjects experimental conditions, were satisfactorily explained by a model specifying three image dimensions: (a) general (store) attributes, (b) appearance, and (c) salesperson/service. The three-factor measurement model is theoretically meaningful and demonstrated a high degree of invariance across the three samples.Keywords
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