Effect of Relational Benefits on Customer Involvement on Positive Word of Mouth Communication (Mellat Bank Customers as a Case Study)

Word-of-mouth communication is often a major influence in consumer decision making process. Word of mouth communication is important concept in marketing literature, thus present study has studied the effect of relational benefits on word of mouth communication among customers. This study is a descriptive study was conducted through a survey. The research population was 437 customers of Mellat bank. After data collection, the data were analyzed through structural equations modeling and Lisrel software. The results indicated that confidence and social benefits had a positive and significant effect on word of mouth communication. But, it was revealed that special treatment benefits had not a significant effect on word of mouth communication. Also, fitting indicators suggest that data have been fitted well with the model.