Voluntary Simplicity: Characterization, Select Psychological Implications, and Societal Consequences

By Amitai Etzioni. 2004

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Positive psychology in practice (2004, background): “history since the colonial era (Shi, 1985), Voluntary Simplicity (VS) has experienced a resurgence in recent years (Etzioni, 1998), with the publication of books like Voluntary Simplicity by Duane Elgin (1993), Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin (1992) and the Circle of Simplic”
You Are What You Eat: The Social Economy of the Slow Food Movement (2004, background): “Similar calls for ‘‘voluntary simplicity’’ maintain that the consumerist mentality stands in the way of a more equitable division of resources and diverts us from achieving our full human development (Etzioni 1998).”
Consumer Social Responsibility (CnSR): Toward a Multi-Level, Multi-Agent Conceptualization of the “Other CSR” (2013, neutral): “The relational construct sits well alongside consumer research that has observed ‘‘sustainable consumption’’ practices to cement relationships within ‘‘eco communities’’ (Etzioni 1998; Kozinets 2002).”
Resurrecting the Motivation-Hygiene Theory: Herzberg and the Positive Psychology Movement (2007, background): “In his review, Etzioni (1998) describes voluntary simplicity as the choice to limit expenditures on consumer goods and services and to cultivate nonmaterialistic sources of satisfaction and meaning.”
Purpose and object of anti-consumption ☆ (2009, background): “Rather, they believe that maximizing their consumption, as is commonly done, has undesirable consequences, such as stress and distraction from higher pursuits (Etzioni, 1998; Fischer, 2001; Schor, 1998; Shaw and Newholm, 2002; Zavestoski; 2002a).”
Individual strategies for sustainable consumption (2012, neutral): “…voluntary simplifiers has been used to distinguish between people who choose to reduce their ‘expenditures on consumer goods and services, and to cultivate non-materialistic sources of satisfaction and meaning’ (Etzioni, 1998, p. 620) and non-voluntary simplifiers who do not (Shaw & Newholm, 2002).”
Are Psychological and Ecological Well-being Compatible? The Role of Values, Mindfulness, and Lifestyle (2005, background): “VS represents a conscious choice to reduce material consumption in order to increase nonmaterial benefits (Elgin, 1993; Etzioni, 1998).”
The coherence of inconsistencies: Attitude–behaviour gaps and new consumption communities (2012, background): “[Stone-Hall/Cynthia] Cynthia’s views echo the values of voluntary simplifiers (Etzioni, 1998; McDonald et al., 2006; Shaw & Newholm, 2002; Zavestoski, 2002), found to a lesser extent at Community Farms and Green-Tech.”
The Sustainability Roots of Anticonsumption Lifestyles and Initial Insights Regarding Their Effects on Consumers' Well-Being (2016, background): “Living a simpler life in a sustainable manner enables individuals to experience a “nonmaterialistic source of satisfaction and meaning” (Etzioni 1998, 620), which is associated with a better quality of life and consumer well-being.”
What we know about anticonsumption: An attempt to nail jelly to the wall (2020, background): “Furthermore, religious values and religiosity have been identified as motivators of environmental consciousness (Felix, Hinsch, Rauschnabel, & Schlegelmilch, 2018) and voluntary simplicity (Chowdhury, 2018; Etzioni, 1999; Rudmin & Kilbourne, 1996; Ulusoy, 2015).”
The consumption and disposition behaviour of voluntary simplifiers (2010, methodology): “Participants ranged in age from 21 to 72, and were representative of the three levels of intensity identified by Etzioni (1998).”