Luxury influencer marketing and subjective well-being
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- Marijke De Veirman (UGent) and Liselot Hudders (UGent)
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- Instagram influencers often receive free luxury brands hoping that they will endorse these brands on their social media profiles. Many of these influencers like to show off these gifts on their accounts. However, this bragging may be counterproductive because it may negatively affect consumers’ self-esteem by inducing social comparison, leading to protective mechanisms in which the influencer will be assessed negatively. The current paper reports the results of an experimental study (N = 158) that examines how bragging on Instagram affects consumers’ self-esteem, as well as influencer and brand evaluations. The study shows that exposure to bragging on Instagram leads to lower self-esteem due to negative social comparison, which arouses feelings of envy. This leads consumers to negatively evaluate the influencer. Additionally, it lowers influencer liking and leads to more negative product and brand evaluations. However, the effects seem to be detrimental only when the braggart promotes a non-luxury brand.
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01JRWY19NF20BY68M61W8Y02QD
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- De Veirman, Marijke, and Liselot Hudders. “Luxury Influencer Marketing and Subjective Well-Being.” The Rise of Positive Luxury : Transformative Research Agenda for Well-Being, Social Impact, and Sustainable Growth, edited by Wided Batat, Routledge, 2022, pp. 79–101, doi:10.4324/9781003163732-7.
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- De Veirman, M., & Hudders, L. (2022). Luxury influencer marketing and subjective well-being. In W. Batat (Ed.), The rise of positive luxury : transformative research agenda for well-being, social impact, and sustainable growth (pp. 79–101). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003163732-7
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- De Veirman, Marijke, and Liselot Hudders. 2022. “Luxury Influencer Marketing and Subjective Well-Being.” In The Rise of Positive Luxury : Transformative Research Agenda for Well-Being, Social Impact, and Sustainable Growth, edited by Wided Batat, 79–101. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003163732-7.
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- De Veirman, Marijke, and Liselot Hudders. 2022. “Luxury Influencer Marketing and Subjective Well-Being.” In The Rise of Positive Luxury : Transformative Research Agenda for Well-Being, Social Impact, and Sustainable Growth, ed by. Wided Batat, 79–101. London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003163732-7.
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- 1.De Veirman M, Hudders L. Luxury influencer marketing and subjective well-being. In: Batat W, editor. The rise of positive luxury : transformative research agenda for well-being, social impact, and sustainable growth. London: Routledge; 2022. p. 79–101.
- IEEE
- [1]M. De Veirman and L. Hudders, “Luxury influencer marketing and subjective well-being,” in The rise of positive luxury : transformative research agenda for well-being, social impact, and sustainable growth, W. Batat, Ed. London: Routledge, 2022, pp. 79–101.
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