Abstract:
Insurance play insignificant role in the life of humanity .The messily and need of insurance
is felt when something adverse happens in the life of humans. Objective of this study was
to identi'ing the main influence factors of consumer purchase intention of life insurance.
In the present situation, there is a significant increment in Long Term Insurance (life
insurance) Premium Income.
These papers discuss the factors that influence consumer purchase intention on life
insurance in Batticaloa District. This research was carried out to investigate the factors
which are financial literacy, saving motives, risk aversion motives that will determine the
purchase intention of customer on life insurance. Questionnaires have been used as
instruments to collect primary data and had distributed to life insurance policy holders in
selected insurance companies. Stratified random sampling is the technique that had been
used to distribute the questionnaires. To conduct this research, the researchers use
secondary data at the beginning, simply by searching information though, books, journals
and internet. Next is primary data, the researchers will collect primary data by distributing
questionnaire to the respondents.
The researchers also will use Statistical Package (SPSS) to provide a powerful statistical analysis and data management systems to generate information into tables. The findings of
this research reveal risk aversion motives is the most important factor towards purchase
intention. So there is dire need to understand how to increase intention to purchase life
insurance among Batticaloa District. Future studies can improve by putting in more time
and surveying more customers in a greater amount at Batticaloa District. Future researchers
could also consider using other factors to analyze the collected data.
In this study, the statistical tools that used to analyze the levels of variables are mean is
high level and Standard deviation values , while relationship were measured by Pearson
coefficients and simple regressions for dependent and independent variables. The results
related that financial literacy, saving motives, risk aversion motives have a significant
positive impact on consumer purchase intention. The regression analysis suggested that
all three components (financial literacy, saving motives, risk aversion motives) have
significant with consumer purchase intention.
