Social Support and Money as Pain Management Mechanisms

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The preference for experiences over possessions: Measurement and construct validation of the Experiential Buying Tendency Scale (2012, background): “In fact, materialism may be a typical coping mechanism for managing anxiety and insecurity, with money reliance serving as a secondary buffer and defense mechanism against negative life experiences after social support, the primary buffer, has failed (Zhou & Gao, 2008).”
Money and the fear of death: The symbolic power of money as an existential anxiety buffer (2013, methodology): “The manipulation was based on the money priming procedure previously employed by Zhou et al. (2009). Each participant assigned to either of the two experimental groups received a set of different bank notes (real or play) and was asked to count the overall value of money.”
Bidirectional Dynamics of Materialism and Loneliness: Not Just a Vicious Cycle (2013, unknown): “That is, loneliness and its antecedents, such as being socially excluded or experiencing a marital break-up, might increase materialism (Lastovicka and Sirianni 2011; Rindﬂeisch, Burroughs, and Denton 1997; Zhou and Gao 2008).”