The Effect of Price Discount and Shopping Lifestyle on Impulsive Buying with Positive Emotion as An Intervening Variable on E-Commerce Shopee Users (Study on Students of the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of North Sumatra)

In today's digital era, human life cannot be separated from the internet network, even now the internet has become one of the needs for everyone, starting from simply searching for information through social media, news, to doing business is also very dependent on the internet. The internet has experienced very rapid development and changed the business world significantly, namely the emergence of e-commerce such as the presence of marketplaces or online stores that bring a new phenomenon among the community, namely online shopping. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of price discounts and shopping lifestyles on impulsive buying through positive emotions in Shopee e-commerce users. This study was conducted at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of North Sumatra with a sample of 165 respondents. Data were analyzed using descriptive analysis and path analysis with the Smart PLS application. The results of the study showed that directly price discounts had a positive and significant effect on positive emotions, shopping lifestyle had a positive and significant effect on positive emotions, price discounts had a positive and significant effect on impulsive buying, shopping lifestyle had a positive and significant effect on impulsive buying, and positive emotions had a positive and significant effect on impulsive buying. Indirectly, price discounts had a positive and significant effect on impulsive buying through positive emotions, and shopping lifestyle had a positive and significant effect on impulsive buying through positive emotions.