Abstract :
Nowadays, the shopping behaviour among consumers recently have had shifted not to only
make the right purchase, but it is all about the experience of shopping. Impulse buying and
hedonic consumption are two behaviours that strongly related to emotional involvement,
creating shopping experience for the consumers. Several previous studies have found the
association between demographic factors and impulse buying and hedonic consumption.
This research investigates the association between demographic factors such gender, age,
and income to impulse buying on three ethnicities that consist of Balinese (n = 166),
Chinese (n = 102), and Javanese (n = 140). Data collected from two cities, Denpasar and
Yogyakarta. This research found that gender has association to either impulse buying and
hedonic consumption on three ethnicities, with additional different impulse buying
behaviour pattern in gender among ethnicities. Age has association to impulse buying on
Balinese and Javanese, to hedonic consumption on Balinese and Chinese. Income has no
association to impulse buying and hedonic consumption on three ethnicities.