The Impact of Cognitive and Affective Factors on Attitude and Acceptance of Mobile Advertising

Today, due to increasing spread of usage, mobile phone has become a popular media for advertisers. Advertisement through mobile is one of the modern advertising methods. According to the newness of this media, still affective factors on advertising adoption are not obvious for businesses and advertisers. The developed research model in this study includes the cognitive and affective factors, attitude, demographic factors and acceptance of mobile advertising. This research is an applied one in terms of objective and survey in terms of data collection. A sample of 392 mobile users was chosen in Qom city using judgment sampling method and the required data was collected using questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed using structural equation modeling via Smart PLS software. The results showed that affective and cognitive factors have a significant impact on the acceptance of mobile advertising. Moreover, demographic factors have not a significant moderating effect on the relationship between attitude and willingness to accept. Due to emerging of this media in Iran, the results can be interpreted and generalized.