An Investigation of Self-Image Congruence Differences between Materialistic and Non-Materialistic Consumers

Cash, Money, Woes: The Match Between a Person’s Level of Materialism and the Materialistic (or non-Materialistic) Character of Events Alters Affective Forecasts

The role of self-relevant values (as operationalized via materialism) was studied as a moderator of affective forecasting. Materialists predicted high negative affect in response to a material loss (Study 1), but low negative affect in response to an interpersonal setback (Study 2). For both event types, less negativity was predicted with longer durations from event occurrence, regardless of ma...

Materialistic Cues Boosts Personal Relative Deprivation

Three studies investigated whether exposure to materialistic cues would increase perceptions of personal relative deprivation and related emotional reactions. In Study 1, individuals who were surveyed in front of a luxury store reported higher levels of personal relative deprivation than those surveyed in front of an ordinary building. In Study 2, participants who viewed pictures of luxurious g...

an investigation about the relationship between insurance lines and economic growth; the case study of iran

مطالعات قبلی بازار بیمه را به صورت کلی در نظر می گرفتند اما در این مطالعه صنعت بیمه به عنوان متغیر مستفل به بیمه های زندگی و غیر زندگی شکسته شده و هم چنین بیمه های زندگی به رشته های مختلف بیمه ای که در بازار بیمه ایران سهم قابل توجهی دارند تقسیم میشود. با استفاده از روشهای اقتصاد سنجی داده های برای دوره های 48-89 از مراکز ملی داده جمع آوری شد سپس با تخمین مدل خود بازگشتی برداری همراه با تعدادی ...

Development of materialistic values among children and adolescents

Too Materialistic to Get Married and Have Children?

We developed new materials to induce a luxury mindset and activate materialistic values, and examined materialism's relationship to attitudes toward marriage and having children in Singapore. Path analyses indicated that materialistic values led to more negative attitudes toward marriage, which led to more negative attitudes toward children, which in turn led to a decreased number of children d...