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Consumer Science: Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)The environmental crisis is a certainty (Dunlap & Catton, 1994; IPCC, 2007; South Africa Property Review, 2009:15) and requires change within the objective reality of everyday social life (Spaargaren, 1998). In this regard ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Apparel firms base their sizing systems on a standard figure. The South African apparel industry adapted an old British sizing system that is not only foreign but is also out dated and inaccurate. Consumer populations ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Involvement is a motivational state of arousal encouraged by a particular stimulus or situation and displayed through properties of drive (Khare & Rakesh, 2010; Park, Kim & Forney, 2006). Fashion clothing involvement can ...
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(Wiley, 2014-03)This research compared body shapes, measurements, ratios and fit problems of 234 African (109) and Caucasian (125) women. A 3-dimensional (3D) full body scanner generated virtual body images from which circumferential, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Young Black professionals (Buppies) have taken the South African market by storm. These individuals and their parents come from suppressed and poverty-stricken pasts. Since the abolishment of the Apartheid regime, they ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)In this study the goal was to explore and describe the food habits of adolescents (16-19 years old) residing in the Manzini region of Swaziland, and to determine the extent to which traditional, fast and snack foods are ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)The pursuit of sustainability and the preservation of natural resources in consumers’ product choice and –consumption is a worldwide concern. This research therefore focused on the relevance and inter relationship of various ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)The study aimed to explore and describe consumers’ reliance on brands, specifically the Country of Origin (COO) of brands as a heuristic, i.e. the perceived quality of a selected category of interior merchandise and to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)In this study the food habits of schoolchildren aged 11-15 years in three primary schools in Manzini, Swaziland were described and explored. Their eating patterns and the composition of their meals during the week and over ...
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(South African Association of Family Ecology and Consumer Sciences, 2014)Vetsugtigheid is wêreldwyd ‘n wesenlike probleem en Suid-Afrika is geen uitsondering nie Wanneer mans van die verskillende Suid-Afrikaanse bevolkingsgroepe in oënskou ge-neem word, toon wit mans die hoogste voor-koms van ...
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(South African Association of Family Ecology and Consumer Sciences, 2014)Talle gevestigde, bekende handelsmerke het hulle produksie in onlangse jare na Oosterse lande verskuif om arbeidskoste te sny. Die land van herkoms (LvH) en die land van produksie (LvP) van gewilde, gesogte kledinghandelsmerke ...
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(South African Association of Family Ecology and Consumer Sciences, 2014)Om goeie pas te verseker is dit belangrik dat klein- en grootskaalse klerevervaardigers klere vervaardig wat die groottes en liggaamsvorme van hul teikenmark sal pas. Vir die pas van klere maak groot- en kleinskaalse ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)In the postmodern society we live in whereby citizens create their unique identities and sense of belonging not by whom they associate with but rather with what they consume (Arrow & Dasgupta, 2009; Berner & Van Tonder, ...
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An investigation of Basotho culinary practices and consumer acceptance of Basotho traditional bread (University of Pretoria, 2014)The overall aim of this study was to investigate the culinary practices of Basotho with regard to traditional bread, to characterise breads and to apply the cultural hedonic framework to describe consumers’ perceptions ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Apparel purchase is an everyday decision process for consumers and the decision is motivated by various consumer needs. As an important aspect in the study of consumer behaviour, the link between South African young adult ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Today’s marketplace is characterised by fierce competition and customer satisfaction has increasingly become important as a key element and strategy for businesses to remain competitive (Gocek and Beceren, 2012; Rad, 2011; ...
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(South African Association of Family Ecology and Consumer Sciences, 2014)Suid-Afrikaanse vroulike Muslim-studente volg 'n verskeidenheid van kleding-praktyke. Terwyl party individue baie tradisionele Islamietiese drag dra, volg ander Westerse modes. Hierdie verskille in klere kan aan die ...
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(Sage, 2014-10)Increasing consumption in the South African emerging economy necessitates stringent effort toward developing environmental information campaigns that stimulate preferences for eco-friendly alternatives. This qualitative ...
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(South African Association of Family Ecology and Consumer Sciences, 2013)Literatuur dui onteenseglik daarop dat huishoudlike toerusting „n belangrike impak het op die volhoubaarheid van natuurlike hulpbronne. Binne die Suid-Afrikaanse konteks, waar water en elektrisiteit skaars is, is hierdie ...
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