Materialism as an attempt to cope with uncertainty

By LinChiat Chang, R. Arkin. 2002

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Intrinsic motivations, self-esteem, and luxury goods consumption (2011, background): “Research in social psychology shows that individuals tend to engage in materialistic behavior when their self-esteem is low (Braun and Wicklund, 1989; Chang and Arkin, 2002; Kasser, 2001).”
The preference for experiences over possessions: Measurement and construct validation of the Experiential Buying Tendency Scale (2012, result): “Further, these correlations corroborate and extend previous work (Chang & Arkin, 2002 ; Zhou & Gao, 2008 ), which demonstrated that feelings of generalized anxiety, depression, insecurity, and social threat potentiate the motivation to acquire material items.”
Growing up in a Material World: Age Differences in Materialism in Children and Adolescents (2007, methodology): “Consistent with this view, researchers have reported experimental evidence showing that induced feelings of insecurity and low self-esteem have a direct causal influence on materialistic orientations (Braun and Wicklund 1989; Chang and Arkin 2002; Kasser 2002; Solberg, Diener, and Robinson 2004).”
Attachment to objects as compensation for close others' perceived unreliability (2012, background): “Critically, however, experimental evidence shows that priming uncertainties about the self directly increases materialism (Chang & Arkin, 2002).”
Buying to Blunt Negative Feelings: Materialistic Escape from the Self (2016, background): “Chang and Arkin (2002) also showed that materialistic values are positively associated with self-doubt.”
Interpersonal influences on adolescent materialism: A new look at the role of parents and peers (2010, background): “Most researchers believe that material goods are an instrument individuals use to cope with or compensate for doubts about their competence and self-worth (e.g., Chang & Arkin, 2002; Kasser, 2002).”
Material Parenting: How the Use of Goods in Parenting Fosters Materialism in the Next Generation (2015, background): “Personal insecurity involves a lack of confidence in one’s self or one’s abilities, while social insecurity involves a lack of confidence in one’s social relationships (Chang and Arkin 2002; Rindfleisch, Burroughs, and Wong 2009).”
A closer look into the materialism construct: the antecedents and consequences of materialism and its three facets (2015, background): “Given that affective experiences lead to the pursuit of materialism, researchers found that unhappy people seek solace through the acquisition of material goods and believe that materialistic values are essential to their pursuit of happiness (Chang and Arkin, 2002; Diener and Biswas-Diener, 2002; L”
An Examination of the Relationships Between Materialism, Conspicuous Consumption, Impulse Buying, and Brand Loyalty (2012, background): “…motivation (Fitzmaurice and Comegys 2006), compulsive buying (Rindfleisch, Burroughs, and Denton 1997; Roberts, Manolis, and Tanner 2003), self-doubt and insecurity (Chang and Arkin 2002), social anxiety (Schroeder and Dugal 1995), and self-esteem contingent on praise (Deci and Ryan 1995).”
The relationship between materialism and personal well-being: A meta-analysis. (2014, neutral): “".19 ".22 MVS–18 RSE Richins (2010) 295 ".20 ".29 MVS–9 Happy Unpublished MS U.S.A. 53 Over 18 General 53% not completed high school or equivalent (table continues) This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.”
Materialism and conspicuous consumption in China: a cross-cultural examination (2011, background): “, 2003), brand perception (Kamineni, 2005), attitude towards advertising (Yoon, 1995), self-doubt and insecurity (Chang and Arkin, 2002), social influence conformity (Schroeder and Dugal, 1995) and self-esteem contingent on praise (Deci and Ryan, 1995).”