dc.description.abstract | Brand is defined as a name, term, symbol, mark or design, to differentiate between products and service in the same category products. A variety of brands are full of everyone’s daily life and consumers are confronted continually by brand choose process. This study is attempted to investigate when consumers purchase products, the correspondence between brand personality and human personality. When consumers purchase different category products, whether has dissimilar correspondence relationship. Also, design a questionnaire to investigate product brand, brand personality and human personality, the questionnaire is on the basis of Aaker′s "Brand Personality Scale" and Costa and McCrae’s "Five Factor Model".
Moreover, utilize correspondence analysis and cluster analysis for analysis in consumer goods, durable goods and virtual goods. The research shows durable goods have correspondence relationship between brand personality and human personality. The cluster including brand personality of Sincerity, Exciting, Competence, Sophisticated and human personality of Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to experience, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness. In summary, when consumers purchase durable goods there has a correspondence relationship between brand personality and human personality. If purchase other categories products the correspondence relationship is unapparent.
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