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Each subject experience both experimental conditions and visit an electronic catalog with a<br />

“shopping as work” scenario and another catalog with a “shopping as recreation” scenario. It<br />

guarantees that differences between the two scenarios are caused by the manipulation, and not by<br />

sampling differences. Confounding variables such as carryover effects were controlled by<br />

counterbalancing. Half the subjects visited first an electronic catalog with a “shopping as<br />

recreation” orientation and then another one with a “shopping as work” orientation and the other<br />

half visited first an electronic catalog with a “shopping as work” orientation and then another one<br />

with a “shopping as recreation” orientation.<br />

A scenario was developed for each orientation and for each electronic catalog. A pre-test was<br />

performed to check that the “shopping as work” scenario was perceived as work and that the<br />

“shopping as recreation” scenario was perceived as recreation. Additionally a manipulation check<br />

was introduced in the final questionnaire: “How did you consider the visit before visiting the web<br />

site: as work � as recreation”.<br />

Measures<br />

Literature on retailing, services marketing and environmental psychology was used to<br />

identify pre-existing measures. Measures were then adapted to the online retailing context. Two<br />

studies were realized in order to adapt and validate our measures.<br />

The first study evaluated each scale performance: 60 students had to visit two electronic<br />

catalogs and to respond to a questionnaire after each visit. Online shopping hedonic or utilitarian<br />

<strong>value</strong>s were assessed by the Personal Shopping Value (PSV) scale (Babin, Darden and Griffin<br />

1994). Four items measure hedonic <strong>value</strong> and three items measure utilitarian <strong>value</strong>. Responses are<br />

anchored on a 7 point scale from 1=strongly disagree to 7= strongly agree. Coefficient alpha is<br />

0.8767 for online shopping hedonic <strong>value</strong> and 0.8411 for online shopping utilitarian <strong>value</strong>.<br />

Satisfaction is assessed by a scale by Llosa (1996). One item measure the cognitive dimension of<br />

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