Consumer Culture, Identity and Well-Being: The Search for the 'Good Life' and the 'Body Perfect'

By H. Dittmar. 2007

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Materialism and Well–Being in the Uk and Chile: Basic Need Satisfaction and Basic Need Frustration as Underlying Psychological Processes (2014, background): “Thus, the Aspiration Index assesses the relative importance of a materialistic value orientation in a person’s overall value system, whereas the materialistic values scale measures the endorsement of a materialistic value orientation as such (Dittmar, 2008).”
The Costs of Consumer Culture and the “Cage Within”: The Impact of the Material “Good Life” and “Body Perfect” Ideals on Individuals” Identity and Well-Being (2007, background): “The ways in which consumer culture ideals impact on individuals’ identity and, in turn, well-being can be summarized in a model (Dittmar, 2007), which draws on Meadian symbolic interactionist principles to understand how ‘external’ bodily and material ideals are first internalized during children’s…”
Values that Underlie and Undermine Well–Being: Variability across Countries † (2017, result): “The finding for power values accords with findings in past research showing that power values related less negatively to LS in low HDI countries (Sortheix & Lönnqvist, 2014) and that materialistic interests related less negatively to well-being in less developed countries (Dittmar, 2008).”
The rise of inconspicuous consumption (2015, background): “…anthropologists, psychologists and marketers, the basic engine of consumption has been seen to be the race for class and status (e.g., Brooks, 1981; Dittmar, 1992, 2008; Douglas & Isherwood, 1979; Doyle, 1999; Fussell, 1983; Mason, 1981; McCracken, 1988; Packard, 1959; Simmel, 1904/2011; Tawney,…”
Materialistic cues make us miserable: A meta‐analysis of the experimental evidence for the effects of materialism on individual and societal well‐being (2020, background): “The endorsement of materialism has been attributed to media consumption (e.g., Dittmar, 2008; Kasser, Ryan, Couchman, & Sheldon, 2004; Shrum, Burroughs, & Rindfleisch, 2005), and correlational and longitudinal studies have confirmed a positive association between materialism and media exposure…”
How do "Body Perfect" Ideals In tHe MedIa Have a negatIve IMPact on Body IMage and BeHavIors? factors and Processes related to self and IdentIty (2009, unknown): “The new extreme of dress size "zero" represents a starvation-level Body Mass Index ( 16) well in the range of anorexia (Dittmar, 2008).”
Putting the “self” in selfies: how narcissism, envy and self-promotion motivate sharing of travel photos through social media (2020, background): “In addition, envy plays a central role in advertising and promotion, whether through the “keeping up with the Joneses” phenomenon (Belk, 2011; Berger, 1977), celebrity endorsements (Dittmar, 2007) and luxury marketing (Belk, 2011).”
Personal Value Priorities and Life Satisfaction in Europe (2014, background): “…showing, for example, that financial satisfaction was a stronger predictor of LS among general population in poorer nations (Oishi, Diener, Lucas, & Suh, 1999) and research showing that the pursuit of material goods is negatively related to well-being mainly in richer nations (Dittmar, 2008).”
The relationship between materialism and personal well-being: A meta-analysis. (2014, unknown): “…with the idea that frequent exposure to consumer culture’s ideologies and institutions may work to undermine the well-being of those who internalize that ideology and frequently interact with those institutions (Dittmar, 2007, 2008; Dittmar et al., 2013; Kasser et al., 2007; Richins, 1991).”