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Self-concept clarity: Exploring its role in consumer behavior

Mittal, Banwari - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 46 (2015) C, pp. 98-110

susceptibility to interpersonal influence, materialism, post purchase doubt, shopping as escape, and use of products as identity …

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Ethical Decision Making and Leadership: Merging Social Role and Self-Construal Perspectives

Hoyt, Crystal; Price, Terry - In: Journal of Business Ethics 126 (2015) 4, pp. 531-539

This research extends our understanding of ethical decision making on the part of leaders by merging social role and self-construal perspectives. Interdependent self-construal is generally seen as enhancing concern for justice and moral values. Across two studies, we tested the prediction that...

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The Role of Spiritual Well-Being and Materialism in Determining Consumers’ Ethical Beliefs: An Empirical Study with Australian Consumers

Chowdhury, Rafi; Fernando, Mario - In: Journal of Business Ethics 113 (2013) 1, pp. 61-79

-being and materialism with the various dimensions of consumer ethics. Spiritual well-being is composed of four domains … materialism was positively associated with perceptions of actively benefiting from illegal actions, passively benefiting at the …

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Does Religion Affect the Materialism of Consumers? An Empirical Investigation of Buddhist Ethics and the Resistance of the Self

Pace, Stefano - In: Journal of Business Ethics 112 (2013) 1, pp. 25-46

This paper investigates the effects of Buddhist ethics on consumers’ materialism, that is, the propensity to attach a … tame materialism directly, similar to other religions, and through the specific Buddhist ethical doctrines of the Four … reduces materialism directly and through some of the Four Immeasurables, and (2) despite the doctrine of non-existence of the …

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The Relationship Between Symbolic Money Meanings and Materialism

Doğan, Volkan; Torlak, Ömer - In: Business and Economics Research Journal 5 (2014) 2, pp. 1-17

The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between the perceived symbolic meanings of money and materialism … perceived by the participants and their levels of materialism. A significant positive relationship was found between seeing … study examined the symbolic meanings associated with money and levels of materialism with respect to the participants …

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Materialism in Pedagogy Students in Chile

Denegri, Marianela; Baeza, María; Salinas-Oñate, Natalia - In: Social Indicators Research 117 (2014) 2, pp. 505-521

Many studies have used Richins and Dawson’s (J Consum Res 19: 303–316, <CitationRef CitationID="CR56">1992</CitationRef>) Material Values Scale (MVS), applying it to different types of populations that exhibit a particular psychometric behavior, and showing little stability in their factorial structure. In the present study, 1,070...</citationref>

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Pangs of Loneliness Breed Material Lifestyle but Don’t Power Up Life Satisfaction of Young People: The Moderating Effect of Gender

Ang, Chin-Siang; Mansor, Abu; Tan, Kit-Aun - In: Social Indicators Research 117 (2014) 2, pp. 353-365

Associations between loneliness, materialism, and life satisfaction were examined in a sample of 366 Malaysian … undergraduate students. Also examined was the mediating role of materialism in the relation between loneliness and life satisfaction …, and such a mediational link (i.e., loneliness–materialism–life satisfaction) is expected to be moderated by gender …

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Cultural and Ideological Roots of Materialism in China

Yang, Song; Stening, Bruce - In: Social Indicators Research 108 (2012) 3, pp. 441-452

This study examines the role of cultural values and political ideologies in the development of materialism, and the … impact of materialism on subjective well-being, in the Chinese context. A survey was conducted of 487 persons in two cities … socialist ideology and certain dimensions of Chinese cultural values influence the growth of materialism. In turn, materialism …

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Is Materialism All That Bad? Effects on Satisfaction with Material Life, Life Satisfaction, and Economic Motivation

Sirgy, M. Joseph; Gurel-Atay, Eda; Webb, Dave; Cicic, Muris - In: Social Indicators Research 110 (2013) 1, pp. 349-366

materialism and life satisfaction. In contrast, the macroeconomic literature implies a positive relationship between material … consumption and economic growth. That is, materialism may be both good and bad. We develop a model that reconciles these two … contrasting viewpoints by asserting that materialism may lead to life dissatisfaction when materialistic people evaluate their …

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Anointing Without Money: Exploring the Relationships between Materialism, Happiness and Daily Spiritual Experience in a Nigerian Sample

Ugwu, Fabian O.; Ugwu, Chidi - In: International Journal of Asian Social Science 3 (2013) 5, pp. 1196-1207

Materialism, happiness and spiritualism seem inseparable and represent areas that have continued to dominate human life …-stage sampling technique to investigate the relationship between materialism, happiness and daily spiritual experience among 142 … opposed to most Western-based studies, we found that materialism is positively related with happiness. Also, the second …

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