Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2020, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (12): 2282-2290.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.2020.12.20

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Impact of media negative coverage of honey consumption expectations

LI Menglu1(), ZHANG Shemei1,2,*()   

  1. 1. School of Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
    2. Sichuan Rural Development Research Center, Chengdu 611130, China
  • Received:2020-03-23 Online:2020-12-25 Published:2020-12-25
  • Contact: ZHANG Shemei

Abstract:

The media negative coverage, especially on the quality and safety of agricultural products, had a great impact on the agricultural product market, which not only brings psychological panic to consumers, but also seriously affects consumers’ purchase decisions. In the end of 2018, a famous hospital questioned the effect of honey on their wechat official account had aroused heated debate. To explore the impact of negative coverage on the consumption of honey, the paper adopted the method of questionnaire and statistical analysis. Based on the data of 1 222 questionnaires in 6 cities in the country, the Ologit model was used to study the coverage and subsequent disputes on consumers. At the same time, the propensity score matching (PSM) and TSLS were used to deal with the selective bias. The results showed that impact of media negative coverage, last purchase behavior and consumer confidence were the important factors influencing the change of consumption expectation, and the negative coverage had a significant impact on consumption expectation. Therefore, this paper suggested that the establishment of authoritative institutions should establish speech appraisal and control system, and strengthen the crisis management of negative coverage to guide rational consumer behavior.

Key words: consumer expectation, media negative coverage, consumer trust, Ologit model, propensity score matching

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