Title Sekėjų požiūris į socialinių medijų nuomonės formuotojo savęs atskleidimo reklamoje poveikį nuomonės formuotojui sekti ir sekėjų sprendimui pirkti reklamuojamus prekių ženklus /
Translation of Title Followers’ views on the impact of influencer self-disclosure in advertising on followership and followers’ decision to buy the advertised brands.
Authors Baranauskaitė, Eglė
DOI 10.15388/K-ir-I.2025.2
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Keywords [eng] influencer ; influencer advertising ; parasocial relationships ; self-disclosure ; follower purchase decision
Abstract [eng] Influencers are intermediaries between the consumer and the brand who can influence the consumer’s purchasing decisions. Research suggests that influencers’ self-disclosure can have an impact. In the absence of a deeper insight into consumers’ attitudes towards the impact of this information on their purchase decision, the present study aims to identify the attitudes of the followers of influencer X in the study towards the impact of X’s different self-disclosures on X’s following, and on the decision to buy the brands X promotes.  Interview participants revealed that self-disclosure information from all personality backgrounds is important for their X-following. The overlap between the self-disclosure information in the advertisement and in the profile is important for the participants. The importance of peripheral and intermediate personality layer information was related to trust in X. X’s attractiveness. They felt that X’s self-disclosure did not ensure X’s expertise. The positive effect of X’s self-disclosure in advertising on the purchase decision of the participants in the study was, in their view, related to the reproduction of peripheral personality information; the effect of intermediate personality information on the purchase decision was recognized in the interaction with X’s other profile information. It was found that if the participants in the study have a skeptical attitude towards influencer advertising, self-disclosure in advertising does not influence their purchase decision.
Published Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla
Type Journal article
Language Lithuanian
Publication date 2025
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