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The relative influence of the father, mother, and teenage child in the family decisionmaking process is examined based on a survey of 260 families in a major metropolitan area. Respondents included both parents and one child, who were asked to report on their own, as well as the other family members' influence across three stages of the family decision-making process and for specific decision areas. The relative influence of each family member across the decision stages and for specific decision areas is analyzed, along with the extent of agreement among family members with respect to their perceptions of influence. The notion that the family should be the main focus of investigation in studying consumer behavior has often been advanced. However, the number of studies which actually examine the family as a decision-making unit are rather limited. Most studies of family decision making have considered only the influence of the husband and wife, while ignoring the involvement of other family members. While children are likely to be involved in certain aspects of the family decision-making process, the nature and extent of their involvement or influence has been examined in only a few studies [9, 12,151. As Davis [6] noted in his review of the family decision-making literature, studies of family decision making have in reality been studies of husband-wife decision making. These failures to allow for the involvement or influence of children, and to measure their perceptions of the family decision-making process along with those of their parents, have resulted in a rather limited perspective of family decision-making structures. The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of not only the husband and wife, but also the teenage child, for various subdecision areas and across different stages of the family decision-making process. This study also considers the response of the teenage child, as well as those of the parents, in assessing family member influence. This makes it possible to compare the perceptions of family members concerning the decision-making roles for various subdecisions and across the decision stages.
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