Apiradee Kaewrattanakul. The image of life insurance companies as percieved by undergraduate studies in Bangkok area universities. Master's Degree(Language and Culture for Communication and Development ). Mahidol University. : Mahidol University, 2009.
The image of life insurance companies as percieved by undergraduate studies in Bangkok area universities
Abstract:
The objectives of this research were to study the image of lifeinsurance
companies, media exposure to and attitudes towards life-insurance as
perceived by undergraduate students studying in Bangkok, to examine the
relationship between the attitudes towards life-insurance and the corporate image
of life-insurance companies, and to study the demography and the patterns of
media exposure that effect their perception of life-insurance companies. The
respondents of this study were full-time undergraduate students in universities in
Bangkok, aged between 17 and 23. Questionnaires were used to collect the data.
Four hundred and fifty surveys were sent to respondents who were studying in six
universities in Bangkok. Four hundred and seventeen copies were returned and
completed.
The results showed that there was a positive perception of all
components of life-insurance companies. The sample had a positive attitude
towards life-insurance based on common beliefs and individual benefits, while
they had a moderate level attitude towards life-insurance concerning national
benefits. Most of the respondents had a very high level of exposure to life
insurance companies via television.
The Pearson correlation coefficients indicated that there was a
positive relationship at the 0.01 level between attitudes towards life-insurance and
the image of life-insurance companies as an adolescent perception.
The results showed that family income, field of study and the
frequency of life-insurance media exposure of the respondents affected their
perception of life insurance companies while gender and place of birth did not.