What If High Is Too High: Role of Regulations of Emotions in Sales Interactions

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Abstract

Using the observer’s perspective (i.e. the customer), this study examines how differing levels of salesperson’s emotional regulation affect customer satisfaction with the interaction. Furthermore, the study investigates how two key strategic options for increasing the interaction quality, i.e. salesperson’s display of positive emotions (PED) and helpfulness, shape the emotional regulation-satisfaction link. Support is found for the hypothesized inverted U-shaped effect of emotional regulation on customer satisfaction implying that the customers are most satisfied with interaction when salespeople exhibit medium levels of emotional regulation. In addition, both PED and helpfulness moderate this relationship, albeit in different directions. Whereas PED makes the emotional regulation-satisfaction link more pronounced, for helpfulness the effect is reversed, where results indicate a flip in the curve, that is, a U-shaped curvilinear relationship between emotional regulation and satisfaction for high levels of helpfulness. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelProceedings of the EMAC 2020 Regional Conference
Antal sider1
UdgivelsesstedBrussels
ForlagEuropean Marketing Academy. EMAC
Publikationsdato2020
StatusUdgivet - 2020
Begivenhed2020 EMAC Regional Conference (Online) - Online (Faculty of Economics & Business, University of Zagreb)
Varighed: 16 sep. 202019 sep. 2020
Konferencens nummer: 48
https://www.efzg.unizg.hr/emacregional2020

Konference

Konference2020 EMAC Regional Conference (Online)
Nummer48
LokationOnline (Faculty of Economics & Business, University of Zagreb)
Periode16/09/202019/09/2020
Internetadresse
NavnProceedings of the European Marketing Academy
ISSN2709-1589

Emneord

  • Regulations of emotions
  • Helpfulness
  • Positive emotional display

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