JEMA: Jurnal Ilmiah Bidang Akuntansi dan Manajemen, 17(2) 2020, 135-155 http://dx.doi.org/10.31106/jema.v17i2.6683, ISSN (Online) 2597-4017 135 Consumer response to different advertising appeals: The role of brand value and the perceptual fit of an extended brand for high-involvement products Rosa Prafitri Juniarti 1* , Adi Zakaria Afiff 2 1 Department of Management, Faculty of Economics, Universitas Negeri Surabaya, Surabaya, Indonesia 2 Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia *Corresponding Author(s) Email: rosajuniarti@unesa.ac.id ABSTRACT Brand extension is a topic that has been widely discussed by academics and practitioners in various studies. Unfortunately, there are only a few that address the role of product involvement, advertising appeals, and value dimensions in the extension acceptance as their main issue. Therefore, this study aims to mixed three controlling factors which are product involvement, advertising appeals, and brand value dimensions in determining how consumers respond to the parent brand and extended brand. This study was designed to test the possible interaction in a 2x2x2 full-factorial between advertising appeals (informational vs. emotional), brand extension perceived fit (high vs. low), and value dimension (symbolic vs. functional) for high involvement products. This study confirmed that there were significant differences in the main effects for both consumers' evaluation toward brand extension and the parent brand in the case of a symbolic brand and the high fit of extensions. Emotional appeals play important role in enhancing this degree because of the high level of its brand associations. As symbolic brand often referred as premium brand, the more positive the level of quality perception, the higher level of consumers' evaluation toward brand and brand loyalty will be. Thus, the more loyal consumer to the parent brand, the more positive evaluations of the extension will be. Keywords: Advertising Appeals; Symbolic; Functional; Perceived Fit; Parent Brand; Brand Extension; High-Involvement Product JEL Code: M31, M37 DOI: 10.31106/jema.v17i2.6683 Article History: Received 2020/04/14 Reviewed 2020/06/03 Revised 2020/06/27 Accepted 2020/11/12 Licensed: CC-BY mailto:rosajuniarti@unesa.ac.id http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Consumer response to different advertising appeals: The role of brand value and the perceptual fit of an extended brand for high-involvement products by Rosa Prafitri Juniarti, Adi Zakaria Afiff 136 Introduction A famous brand name often influences consumers' purchasing decisions. Brand extension is a topic that has been widely discussed by academics and practitioners in various studies. They examined the factors that influence the success of a brand extension, the types of brand extension that fit the parent brand (O’Reilly et al., 2017; Sharma & Paudel, 2018; Hadi & Sandhu, 2020), the quality of the parent brand (Aaker & Keller, 1990; Völckner & Sattler, 2006; Carter & Curry, 2013; Verhellen et al., 2016), the cultural differences in evaluating brand extension (Henseler et al., 2010; Kim & Park, 2019), the transfer of assets from the parent brand to the brand extension (Bhat & Reddy, 2001; Joshi & Yadav, 2018), attitudes towards brand extension and self-constructiveness (Boisvert & Ashill, 2018; Dedeoğlu, 2018; Yuan et al., 2016). Advertisements can improve consumer ratings of new products, including new products from established brands. Several researchers have proven that advertisements can increase acceptance of extensions (Dens & De Pelsmacker, 2010b). Extensions can enhance the essential characteristics of brand associations which can help consumers understand the features and benefits of brand extensions and fit. Consumers will judge the appropriateness and consistency when the ad describes how the parent brand's attributes enhance the extension's ability to deliver (Völckner & Sattler, 2006). While many studies of brand extension exist in the world, only a few that address the role of product involvement, advertising appeals, and value dimensions in the extension acceptance as their main issue. Discussions about those issues need to be carried out because consumers evaluate brands in different ways. They evaluate product categories with different engagement. Likewise, the evaluation of brand extension, at high and low-level engagement, will also be different. The degree to which consumers engage with product categories influences how they evaluate extensions (Dens & De Pelsmacker, 2010a) and advertisements (Kim et al., 2009). This shows the need to study brand extension for high-involvement products. Furthermore, all brands have value dimensions, i.e. overall abstraction meaning that gives an identity to a brand. Brand value dimensions place a product in consumers' minds and differentiate it in the same category. Brand value dimensions can be a symbolic brand or functional brand which fulfills consumers’ symbolic and functional needs. Functional brands meet immediate and practical needs and emphasize product performance against consumer functional or functional needs. Symbolic brands fulfill symbolic needs such as self- JEMA: Jurnal Ilmiah Bidang Akuntansi dan Manajemen, 17(2) 2020, 135-155 http://dx.doi.org/10.31106/jema.v17i2.6683, ISSN (Online) 2597-4017 137 expression and prestige. Symbolic brands underline the social and hedonic aspects of products and features to embody the self-concept or self-image expression of consumers (Gierl & Huettl, 2010). Brand concept consistency on the extension product is assessed by the readiness of the brand extension to hold a particular brand concept. It depends on consumer perception whether brand-concept associations (such as status, reliability) have relevant and/ or desired relationships with a certain product (Kwon et al., 2016; Mimouni Chaabane & Pez, 2017; Bairrada et al., 2018; Zhu et al., 2019). A brand with a more abstract concept is more elastic and can be extended to a lot of categories. On the other hand, brands with functional attributes are less elastic and will be more successful if the brand extension is more in line with the function of the brand (Albrecht et al., 2013). However, as we mentioned above there is little research that uses the concept of the brand value dimension in evaluating the parent and extended brand’s attitude (Monga & John, 2010). Therefore, this study aims to mixed three controlling factors which are product involvement, advertising appeals, and brand value dimensions in determining how consumers respond to the parent brand and extended brand. Literature Review Perceived Parent Brands Quality Rajagopal (2020) and Sharma & Paudel (2018) defined perceived brand quality as the perception or initial identification of the overall quality or superiority of a brand. Perception of quality is one of the crucial factors which can drive product success and enhances business performance (Yang, 2012; Alavinasab et al., 2017). Kim et al. (2014) stated that the role of brand quality becomes more important when companies tend to extend their product diversity. The use of original brand names (which is also known as parent brand) for product extensions proved to influence the consumers’ evaluation of extended brand (Kwun & Oh, 2007). The more positive consumer evaluation toward parent brand quality, the higher the acceptance of extended brand will be (O’Reilly et al., 2017; Hadi & Sandhu, 2020). Brand Extension Evaluation and Perceptual Fit Brand extensions can be defined as the used of established brand names to introduce new product categories (Yuan et al., 2016; Dedeoğlu, 2018). Boisvert & Ashill (2018) added that brand extension is categorized in two dimensions which are a horizontal and vertical extension. While horizontal extension means using the parent brand name to introduce new products or services in different categories. Vertical extension refers to launch a new product Consumer response to different advertising appeals: The role of brand value and the perceptual fit of an extended brand for high-involvement products by Rosa Prafitri Juniarti, Adi Zakaria Afiff 138 or service in the same category but at a cheaper price and lower quality compared to the parent brand. The relationship of the parent brand and its extension has been studied by numerous researchers. Thus, previous studies, in general, indicate that the perceptual of extension “fit” with parent brand has a positive effect on the evaluation of extended brands (Carter & Curry, 2013; Verhellen et al., 2016). It means that the higher the level of fitness between the parent brand and the extension, the more positive consumers’ evaluation (attitude) toward brand extension will be. The perceptual fit itself can be defined as any association regarding parent brands, including categories, brand concepts, or brand-specific associations, which can connect with parent brands with brand extensions and form the basis of perceived fit. Bottomley & Holden (2001) emphasized that there are several factors in shaping consumer evaluations of brand extensions which are the quality of the parent brand, the fit between the parent brand and the extension category, and the interaction between the two. Aaker & Keller (1990) added that the degree of extension evaluation is due to the perception of the level of ease of use, situational involvement (Barone, 2005), the dominance of the parent brand category (Carter & Curry, 2013), and competitor characteristics (Milberg & Sinn, 2008). Symbolic and Functional Value Dimension Symbolic concepts generally used by consumers to fulfill their symbolic needs by expressing their value preferred (self-expression), social status image, ego-identification (self-enhancement) such as dominance, prestige, and uniqueness (Kwon et al., 2016; Chaabane & Pez, 2017). Symbolic needs itself are defined by Salehzadeh et al. (2018) as the desire for products that meet internal needs for self-enhancement, role position, group membership, or identification of the ego. The use of symbolic terms refers to the image that was formed by marketers in brand management. Whereas the functional of brand value refers to the perception of consumers of how well the brand will satisfy their utilitarian needs, such as the quality of the products, product performances, and the level of risk (Albrecht et al., 2013). In a simple meaning, a functional brand is the perception of usefulness and competence of a brand/product that was designed by marketers to fulfill consumption needs. Previous studies from Albrecht et al. (2013) show that there is a positive and significant relationship between functional value and consumers' evaluation toward extensions. Functional values were more heavily affect the level for both luxury and non-luxury brand extensions compared to the hedonic value. JEMA: Jurnal Ilmiah Bidang Akuntansi dan Manajemen, 17(2) 2020, 135-155 http://dx.doi.org/10.31106/jema.v17i2.6683, ISSN (Online) 2597-4017 139 Advertising Appeals The effect of advertising appeals on consumer response was varied for each individual because of the different conditions of informational load, the perception of the level of involvement, age, and market pressure (Rhee & Jung, 2019). Advertising appeals itself can be defined as the general tone and message strategies that marketers generally used to grab attention and to attract consumer willingness to buy (Teichert et al., 2018). Advertising execution strategies can be roughly divided into two dimensional which is informational and transformational/emotional appeals. In a simple meaning, informational advertising informs consumers clearly and logically by providing factual and relevant data ("the reason why") about the brand benefit (Pashna et al., 2019) Belch & Belch (2013) added that informational advertising tends to be informative and advertisers generally use it to try to convince consumers that their products or services have certain attributes or provide certain benefits that meet consumer needs. Prajogo & Purwanto (2020) stated that due to the benefit that consumers obtain after exposed by informative advertising, they tend to create a buzz voluntarily. The more information that is given by new product extension advertising campaign, the further away the positioning of the extended brand from the parent brand will be as perceived fit between the parent brand and extensions will decrease and it will impact on the influence of attitude toward the parent brand on brand‐extension evaluation (Nan, 2006). Emotional appeals are aimed to evoke consumer feelings and emotions (Dens & De Pelsmacker, 2010b). Positive emotional advertising provides strong brand signals and stimulates category-based processing. Also, the absence of specific information from extensions in advertisements will cause the audience to only use existing cues such as brand names, perceived parent brand quality, and perceived fit to evaluate extensions (Klink & Smith, 2001; Primanto & Dharmmesta, 2019). Hypotheses Development A symbolic brand that shares prestige orientation and brand image to its brand extension shows the achievement of brand extension fit (Bhat & Reddy, 2001). In this context, prestige orientation and brand relate to parent brands and brand extensions (Lye et al., 2001). The image fit influences consumers to believe that they can enjoy similar advantages from parent brands and brand extensions (Eren-Erdogmuş & Büdeyri‐Turan, 2012; Ferguson et al., 2016; Eren-Erdogmus et al., 2018). Hereafter, fit perception can be created even though the brand extension is very different from the product category of the parent brand. Consumer response to different advertising appeals: The role of brand value and the perceptual fit of an extended brand for high-involvement products by Rosa Prafitri Juniarti, Adi Zakaria Afiff 140 On the other hand, the brand extension ad will enhance the brand image because it can communicate the established extension, increase positive brand association, and strengthen brand image (Völckner & Sattler, 2006). Advertising execution strategy can be divided into informational and emotional advertisements (Pashna et al., 2019; Rhee & Jung, 2019). The positive emotional advertisement gives a strong brand signal and stimulates category-based processing. Moreover, the absence of specific information of extension in the advertisement causes audiences to use the existing cues, such as brand name, perceived parent brand quality and perceived fit to evaluate extension (Klink & Smith, 2001; Kwun & Oh, 2007; O’Reilly et al., 2017; Hadi & Sandhu, 2020). The more audiences love an ad, the more they like the advertised product. Meanwhile, the more information is given in the new extension communication, the more new characteristics from extension become prominent, and brand extension positioning is further from the parent brand (Nan, 2006). An increase in the amount of product information reduces the effect of generic brand names and fit in particular, because information provides several reasons for the evaluation of products without the brand name itself (Dens & De Pelsmacker, 2010a). Furthermore, consumers receive a brand fit better when the parent brand and brand extension have the same brand concept. Companies can implement many communication strategies to increase perceived fit and ultimately increase brand acceptance among consumers. The low-fit perception can be overcome with an effective communication strategy that focuses on relationship associations that provide a clear relationship between the parent brand and brand extension (Shokri & Alavi, 2019; Zhang et al., 2020). A high fit will indicate a positive evaluation of the parent brand (Arikan et al., 2016; Childs & Jin, 2020). A successful brand extension will bring high confidence in the brand extension which is then transferred back to the parent brand (Joshi & Yadav, 2018). The feedback effect on brand extensions can differ due to the type of advertisement. If the introduction of brand extensions uses informational advertising, the new information will form new brand extension associations and influence associations to the parent brand. If a brand extension introduction implements emotional advertising, new information about the brand extension product will be limited. Consumers will judge advertisements based on important signals that link the parent brand to the brand extension. In this case, attitudes towards brand extension have less influence on attitudes towards the parent brand because the ad shows attributes of the parent brand without meaningful information about the brand extension (Nan, 2006; Dens & De Pelsmacker, 2010b). JEMA: Jurnal Ilmiah Bidang Akuntansi dan Manajemen, 17(2) 2020, 135-155 http://dx.doi.org/10.31106/jema.v17i2.6683, ISSN (Online) 2597-4017 141 H1: Attitude toward brand extension and parent brand is higher for emotional than informational appeal in case of a symbolic brand and the high fit of extensions. H2: Consumers’ evaluation of brand extension and parent brand will be more favorable for emotional than informational appeal when it is a symbolic brand and the low fit of extensions. H3: Attitude toward brand extension and parent brand is higher for informational than emotional appeal in case of a functional brand and the high fit of extensions. H4: There is no difference in the level of attitude toward brand extension and parent brand for both emotional and informational appeal in case of a functional brand and the low fit of extensions. H5: Consumers’ evaluations on brand extension and parent brand is higher for symbolic than functional concept under emotional appeals and the high fit of extension. H6: Consumers’ evaluations on brand extension and parent brand is higher for functional than symbolic concept under informational appeals and the high fit of extension. Methods This study was designed to test the possible interaction between advertising appeals (informational, emotional), brand extension perceived fit (high, low), and value dimension (symbolic, functional) for a high involvement product category. Therefore, a 2 x 2 x 2 full- factorial between-subject design was set up to examined the proposed hypotheses. Real mobile phone brands namely Apple (iPhone) and Nexian were used in this study to enhance ecological validity (Lau & Phau, 2007). Camera and television were chosen as extension product focus in this study because of the strong beliefs that generally consumer has about its attribute (Flores et al., 2014). This study used printed advertisements as an experimental stimulus. There are eight combinations of stimuli based on the experimental design (Table 1). The detailed printed ad stimulus can be viewed in Appendix 1a-h. Table 1. Experiment Design Symbolic Functional High Fit Low Fit High Fit Low Fit Emotional Advertising µ1 µ2 µ3 µ4 Informational Advertising µ5 µ6 µ7 µ8 Three pretests were employed to determine brands that were symbolic or functional in nature, to identify advertisement stimuli and brands extension perceived fit whether it’s Consumer response to different advertising appeals: The role of brand value and the perceptual fit of an extended brand for high-involvement products by Rosa Prafitri Juniarti, Adi Zakaria Afiff 142 informational or emotional and high or low. Through an online survey, 228 undergraduate students at the Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Indonesia, were randomly participated in the experiment and divided across various treatments. Table 2. Independent t-Test Results Between Symbolic and Functional Brand Symbolic (µ) Functional (µ) Apple 6.829 5.717 Nexian 3.162 4.063 A first pretest was run to identify these brands whether it can be classified as symbolic or functional. A questionnaire with semantic differential scales that consists of several items was distributed to 228 target respondents. Thus, the mean ratings of items symbolic and functional were compared using an independent sample t-test. Table 2 shows that Apple demonstrated much stronger association ratings than their functional feature with image related attributes such as prestige, status, and elegance. While Nexian tends to be more functional focused (easy to use, lower prices, and multi-features). In addition, the result of the independent t-test shown in Table 2 also shows that Apple's brand is more superior compared to Nexian. Table 3. Anova Test Results of Perceived Fit and Brand Product Category Perceived Fit (µ) Camera Television Apple 4.750 4.885 Nexian 4.296 4.702 A second pretest was run to ensure that the stimuli extensions were a reasonable fit for parent brands. The extension of the high involvement product category chosen for Apple and Nexian was camera and television. The result of brand extension perceived fit compared means indicated that there are no differences in brand extension mean scores to those of respective parent brands. It means that both the selected extensions indicated a reasonably good fit with the parent brands. Table 3 shows that the respondent of this study slightly perceived that television for both brands has a higher extension fit with the parent brands than the camera. Finally, a third pretest was conducted to determine advertisement stimuli strategy whether it's informational or emotional. There is no difference in symbolic and functional JEMA: Jurnal Ilmiah Bidang Akuntansi dan Manajemen, 17(2) 2020, 135-155 http://dx.doi.org/10.31106/jema.v17i2.6683, ISSN (Online) 2597-4017 143 dimension mean scores of each advertisement stimuli both informational and emotional stimuli. Table 4. Questionnaire Items Variable Code Item Reference Attitude Toward Extended Brand (AEX) AEX1 According to me, the extended brand (Apple TV/Apple Camera/Nexian TV/Nexian Camera) that’s being advertised is great. Dwivedi et al., (2010) AEX2 My attitude toward the extended brand (Apple TV/Apple Camera/Nexian TV/Nexian Camera) that’s being advertised is very positive. AEX3 I like the extended brand (Apple TV/Apple Camera/Nexian TV/Nexian Camera) that’s being advertised. Attitude Toward Parent Brand (APB) APB1 According to me, the parent brand (Apple/Nexian) that’s being advertised is great. APB2 My attitude toward the parent brand (Apple/Nexian) that’s being advertised is very positive. APB3 I like the parent brand (Apple/Nexian) that’s being advertised. In order to test the proposed hypotheses (H1-H6), validity and reliability measurements of consumers’ evaluation (attitude) toward brand extension (AEX) and their attitude toward parent brands (APB) were carried out for the basis of independent sample t-test analysis. The results of the validity and reliability testing in Table 4 show that all instruments used in this study were valid and reliable. Table 5. Validity and Reliability Result Variable/Item Pearson Correlation Criteria Cronbach’s Alpha Criteria Decision AEX 0.903 > 0.600 Reliable AEX1 0.912 > 0.130 Valid AEX2 0.903 > 0. 130 Valid AEX3 0.881 > 0. 130 Valid APB 0.953 > 0.600 Reliable APB1 0.937 > 0. 130 Valid APB2 0.955 > 0. 130 Valid APB3 0.942 > 0. 130 Valid Consumer response to different advertising appeals: The role of brand value and the perceptual fit of an extended brand for high-involvement products by Rosa Prafitri Juniarti, Adi Zakaria Afiff 144 Result and Discussion Table 6. Independent sample t-test result Hypotheses AEXT APB Decision Sig Mean Comparison Sig Mean Comparison H1 µ1 > µ5 .000 µ1 (5.006) > µ5 (3.809) .000 µ1 (5.810) > µ5 (3.611) Accepted H2 µ2 > µ6 .002 µ2 (5.932) > µ6 (5.025) .000 µ2 (6.488) > µ6 (4.580) Accepted H3 µ7 > µ3 .038 µ7 (4.803) < µ3 (5.401) .000 µ7 (4.137) < µ3 (5.963) Rejected H4 µ4 = µ8 .954 µ4 (5.655) > µ8 (5.638) .000 µ4 (6.517) > µ8 (4.787) Rejected H5 µ1 > µ3 .188 µ1 (5.006) < µ3 (5.401) .613 µ1 (5.810) < µ3 (5.963) Rejected H6 µ7 > µ5 .001 µ7 (4.803) > µ5 (3.809) .050 µ7 (4.137) > µ5 (3.611) Accepted An independent sample t-test analysis for the 2 (informational vs. emotional advertising appeals) x 2 (high vs. low perceived fit between the parent brand and extensions) x 2 (symbolic vs. functional brand value) was conducted to test the hypotheses of the study. In general, there are only 2 of 6 hypotheses statement that can be accepted and has similar findings to the previous studies. This study was able to confirm H1 and H2, as there were significant differences in the main effects for both consumers’ evaluation toward brand extension and the parent brand. For the case of the symbolic brand and the high fit of extensions, consumers evaluate brand extensions and parent brand for emotional appeals is higher rather than informational appeal (AEX; µ1 (5.006) > µ5 (3.809), p < 0.050 and APB; µ1 (5.810) > µ5 (3.611), p < 0.050). While for the case of a symbolic brand and the low fit of extensions, consumers evaluation of brand extensions and parent brand is higher for emotional rather than informational appeal (AEX; µ2 (5.932) > µ6 (5.025), p < 0.050 and APB; µ2 (6.488) > µ6 (4.580), p < 0.050). This highlights that the combination of symbolic brand value and emotional appeals play important role in enhancing the degree of attitude toward brand extension and parent brand in the level of perceptual fit between parent and extended brand. Audrin et al., (2017) stated that luxury brands that provide strong symbolic benefits to consumers may enhance the perception of quality, especially for materialist consumers. Eren-Erdogmuş & Büdeyri‐Turan (2012) and Esmaeilpour (2015) added that there is a significant relationship between symbolic (personality congruence) and brand prestige and perceived quality. As prestige brand quality assumes quality, the more positive the level of quality perception, the higher level of consumers’ evaluation toward brand and brand loyalty will be. Thus, the more loyal consumer to the parent brand, the more positive evaluations of the extension will be (Liu et al., 2017). On the other hand, Völckner & Sattler JEMA: Jurnal Ilmiah Bidang Akuntansi dan Manajemen, 17(2) 2020, 135-155 http://dx.doi.org/10.31106/jema.v17i2.6683, ISSN (Online) 2597-4017 145 (2006) and Figueiredo & Eiriz (2020) add a new perspective by argues that the emotional use of prestige (symbolic) products is much more important than their functionality usage. Emotional advertisement is more acceptable to introduce a symbolic brand because of the high level of its brand associations. The result of this study failed to prove the proposed hypotheses 3 which stated that attitude toward brand extension and parent brand is considerably higher for informational than emotional appeal in case of a functional brand and the high fit of extensions. Table 5 shows that the degree of attitude toward parent brand and extension for the high fit product was higher when marketers use emotional appeals as an advertisement execution strategy especially in functional conditions (AEX; µ7 (4.803) < µ3 (5.401), p < 0.050 and APB; µ7 (4.137) < µ3 (5.963), p < 0.050). H3 of this study was rejected as an unexpectedly emotional ad execution strategy has a significant contribution in defining the level of consumers' evaluation. Matthes (2013) suggest that emotional appeals play a key role in shaping consumers’ brand attitude. Emotional appeals are considered as the most effective strategy than informational appeals when the purpose of the advertising act was to persuade (Teichert et al., 2018), to increase the level of information processing, to grab attention, and brand recall (Dens & De Pelsmacker, 2010b). Whereas the proposed hypotheses of this study which stated that in the case of functionality brand, there is no significant difference of attitude toward brand extension and parent brand for the low fit product in the different advertisement appeals (H4) was rejected due to their insignificancy p-value (AEX; µ4 (5.655) > µ8 (5.638), p > 0.050 and APB; µ4 (6.517) > µ8 (4.787), p < 0.050). This highlights that the low fit perceptions of brand extension for a functional brand will partially lead the degree of attitude toward parent brand and extension in each advertisement appeals groups. The result of this study also was not able to confirm H5 which stated that the level of consumers' evaluation toward parent brand and extension will be favorable when there are the high fit perceptions of brand extension for both symbolic and functional in the case of emotional advertising (AEX; µ1 (5.006) < µ3 (5.401), p > 0.050 and APB; µ1 (5.810) < µ3 (5.963), p > 0.050). It means that there is no difference between symbolic and functional dimension mean scores in responding to emotional advertisement stimuli when the perceptual fit between brand extension and parent brand was high. Participants in this study were tended to have the same score evaluations in regards to the design of the printed advertisement stimulus that used as the object of the experiment. Finally, this study was confirmed H6 which stated that the level of consumers’ evaluation toward parent brand and extension is higher for a functional brand in case of the high fit Consumer response to different advertising appeals: The role of brand value and the perceptual fit of an extended brand for high-involvement products by Rosa Prafitri Juniarti, Adi Zakaria Afiff 146 perceptions of brand extension in informational advertising (AEX; µ7 (4.803) > µ5 (3.809), p < 0.050 and APB; µ7 (4.137) > µ5 (3.611), p < 0.050). This result of the study supports the conclusion of Prajogo & Purwanto (2020) and Lye et al., (2001) who stated that due to the reason that perceived quality influences functional brands more than prestige (symbolic) brands, marketers tend to convince consumers that their products or services have offered better functional set advantages that will meet consumer needs by maximizing the use of informational advertising. Dens & De Pelsmacker (2010a) added that the use of camera and television as the extension was resulting in their dependence on informational appeals especially the nature of the product itself which can be classified as a high-involvement product category. Conclusion and Suggestion This study aims to mixed three controlling factors which is product involvement, advertising appeals, and brand value dimensions in determining how consumers respond to the parent brand and extended brand. The findings reveal that there were significant differences in the main effects for both consumers' evaluation toward brand extension and the parent brand in the case of the symbolic brand and the high fit of extensions. Emotional appeals play important role in enhancing this degree because of the high level of its brand associations. As symbolic brand often referred as premium brand, the more positive the level of quality perception, the higher level of consumers' evaluation toward brand and brand loyalty will be. Thus, the more loyal consumer to the parent brand, the more positive evaluations of the extension will be. The result of this study also proves there is no difference between symbolic and functional dimension mean scores in responding to emotional advertisement stimuli when the perceptual fit between brand extension and parent brand was high as participants in this study were tended to have the same score evaluations in regards the design of printed advertisement stimulus that used as the object of the experiment. Finally, this study was able to confirm that the level of consumers' evaluation toward parent brand and extension is higher for the functional brand in case of the high fit perceptions of brand extension in informational advertising. Future studies should extend the number of observations from different backgrounds and add the level of loyalty as a controlling factor as the more loyal consumers' toward the parent brand, the more positive their attitude toward the extended brand. 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