Abstract:
The purposes of this research were: (1) to investigate the consuming behaviors at the beauty and weight reduce shops located in Surat Thani City Municipality area; (2) to study the level of factors affecting the decision-making to consume the services provided there; (3) to study the differences of the factors affecting the decision-making by using personal information; (4) to study the correlation between consumer behaviors and factors affecting the decision-making to consume the provided services; and (4) to study the suggestions and opinions towards the factors affecting the decision-making in order to improve the service quality. The questionnaire used as the instrument in the study was conducted to 400 sample population consisting of consumers consuming at the beauty care and weight reduce shops. SPSS for WINDOWS was used to analyze percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, F-test, Scheffes, and Chi-Square and One-Way ANOVA.
The research results revealed that most of the customers were married female with age ranging from 25 to 34. Their educational background was bachelors degree. Their occupation was freelance or labor with monthly incomes ranging from 20,001 to 30,000 baht. The results on the consuming behavior revealed that the services they consumed were the weight reducing and physical fitness with the reason of near the residents or workplace. They consumed the services once or twice a month with the expenses of less than 5,000 baht a trip. The duration of consuming was from 12.31 p.m. to 14.00 p.m. They acquired the information from leaflets and brochures.
The factors affecting the decision-making to consume the provided services were found to be in the high level in all aspects; that is, the factors of products was found to be the highest, then the aspects of personnel, promotion, service process, place, physical feature, effectiveness and quality, and price, respectively. The comparison on the factors classified by personal information revealed that there were significant differences at the level of 0.05 the respondents differing in sex, marital status, age, educational level, occupation, and monthly incomes. The results on the correlation between consuming behaviors and the factors affecting the decision-making revealed that all consuming behavior aspects correlated with the decision-making, except the aspect of acquiring the shops information.