Overview
- Addresses materialism and well-being from individual to global levels
- Applies positive psychology to the consumer domain
- Shows how money can be spent in support of well-being
- Strikes a middle ground between anti-consumerism and the promotions of the marketplace
- Grounded in findings by leading researchers
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Money and Consumption for Well-Being
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Individual and Cultural Variations
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Consumption and Sustainable Well-Being
Keywords
- Consumer Behavior
- Consumer Types
- Consumer and Environmental Well-Being
- Consumption and Well-Being
- Culture and the Good Life
- Ecological Economics
- Experiential Purchases
- Frugality and Materialism
- Hedonic Adaptation
- Hedonic Benefits of Thrift
- Loneliness and Possession Love
- Materialism and Well-Being
- Money for Happiness
- Positive Psychology
- Sustainable Well-Being
About this book
This volume addresses how we can find happiness and well-being in the material world. It builds on previous works that find that materialism is associated with lowered well-being (materialists are less happy) and that consumerism, in all its profusion, is harmful to environmental well-being. How can we use the money and possessions in our lives in the service of well-being? Apparently not by being materialistic. Can we benefit from the many wonders of the marketplace -- in technology, convenience and aesthetics -- without falling prey to the lures and dangers of excessive material preoccupation? Can we meet our material needs in ways that nourish growth and well-being? The authors of the chapters in this volume are on-going researchers into such questions. Herein you can learn about the hedonic benefits of thrift and of spending on experiences; how possessions can be beneficial; how different types of consumers spend money; cultural variations in conceptions of the "good life;" how we might reconcile environmental and consumer well-being; and how to measure the whole of human, economic, and environmental well-being. Taken all together, this collection finds grounds for compatibility between what's good for the consumer and what's good for the environment.
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This volume appeals to academics, professionals, students and others interested in materialism and consumer well-being.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Consumption and Well-Being in the Material World
Editors: Miriam Tatzel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7368-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7367-7Published: 17 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0556-9Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7368-4Published: 30 September 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 198
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations
Topics: Positive Psychology, Business and Management, general, Quality of Life Research, Marketing