The link between self-uncertainty and conspicuous consumption: Tolerance of uncertainty as a moderator [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 This study, based on self-affirmation theory, aims to investigate the impact of self-uncertainty on individual consumption behavior. Self-uncertainty was categorized into moral, cognitive, and interpersonal self-uncertainty, and different types of self ...
Xiaoming Wang +4 more
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International Journal of Personality Psychology, 2023 The present study explored potential factors that may mediate the relationship between narcissism and conspicuous consumption, as the underlying reasons for this connection remain uncertain.
Virgil Zeigler-Hill +3 more
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Social visibility of consumption and conspicuous consumption: An empirical analysis of Chinese wedding ceremonies. [PDF]
HeliyonThis study explores the transformative impact of a digital platform integrating social media platforms like WeChat and Weibo with social e-commerce applications such as RED on individuals' consumption behaviours.
Shamu Y, You Z, Wang M.
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Materialism, conspicuous consumption, and brand engagement in self-concept: a study of teenagers. [PDF]
Curr Issues Personal Psychol, 2022 BACKGROUND Contemporary adolescents, also known as Generation Z, are an important group of consumers due to the role they play in today’s economy. The present study investigates the relationship between materialism and brand engagement in self-concept ...
Kolańska-Stronka M, Gorbaniuk O.
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Narcissism and conspicuous consumption
Current Opinion in Psychology, 2022 Narcissists are prone to conspicuous consumption, that is, preference for luxury over mundane products. We analyze four reasons for their conspicuous consumption: positive distinctiveness (individuation and status), meaning in life, materialism, and sexual signaling. Empirical support for these reasons ranges from good to preliminary.
Constantine Sedikides, Claire M. Hart
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Effect of childhood socioeconomic status on conspicuous consumption of college students: the chain mediating roles of social comparison and materialism [PDF]
BMC PsychologyObjective To examine the impact of childhood socioeconomic status on college students’ conspicuous consumption, and the mediating effects of social comparison and materialism.
Xin Li +3 more
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Relations of Conspicuous Consumption Tendency, Self-Expression Satisfaction, and SNS Use Satisfaction of Gen Z through SNS Activities. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021 The purpose of this study was to analyze the relations of conspicuous consumption tendency, self-expression satisfaction, and SNS use satisfaction of Gen Z through SNS activities. For a week from 17–23 March 2021, an online survey was conducted targeting
Shin SA, Jang JO, Kim JK, Cho EH.
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Conspicuous consumption and satisfaction [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 Traditional tools of welfare economics identify the envy-related welfare loss from conspicuous consumption only under very strong assumptions. Measured income and life satisfaction offers an alternative for estimating such consumption externalities.
Rainer Winkelmann
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Conspicuous Consumption and Overlapping Generations? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 This paper investigates household decisions, and optimal taxation in an overlapping generations model in which individual utility depends on a weighted average of consumption of ones peers — a “keeping up with the Joneses” consumption externality.
Ronald Wendner
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Mating Goals Moderate Power’s Effect on Conspicuous Consumption Among Women [PDF]
Evolutionary Psychology, 2017 This study aimed to use evolutionary psychology to explain conspicuous consumption’s relationship with mating goals among women. We used experiments to show that power moderates conspicuous consumption’s relationship with mating goals among women through
Taiyang Zhao +4 more
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