The Material Values Scale: Measurement Properties and Development of a Short Form

By Marsha L. Richins. 2004

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Subfields: Marketing, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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A Generalizable Scale of Propensity to Plan: The Long and the Short of Planning for Time and for Money (2010, methodology): “Numerous measurement scholars suggest that short, highly internally consistent scales are preferred (Clark and Watson 1995; Epstein et al. 1996; McFarland, Bloodgood, and Payan 2008; Netemeyer et al. 2002; Netemeyer, Bearden, and Sharma 2003; Richins 2004; Stanton et al. 2002).”
An Examination of the Relationships Between Materialism, Conspicuous Consumption, Impulse Buying, and Brand Loyalty (2012, methodology): “The present study used nine items from the scale (see Kilbourne and Pickett 2008; Richins 2004), with three measures for each of the factors that make up materialism (success, centrality, and happiness) according to Richins and Dawson (1992).”
Intention to visit and willingness to pay premium for ecotourism: The impact of attitude, materialism, and motivation (2015, background): “In other words, primacy of lower-order needs is concomitant with a greater tendency to act out of self-interest and to evaluate offerings on the basis of their financial worth, status offered, and other appearance-related reasons (Richins, 2004).”
Buying to Blunt Negative Feelings: Materialistic Escape from the Self (2016, methodology): “Studies measuring materialism needed to have used the (a) Material Values Scale developed by Richins and Dawson, 1992 (MVS; or Richins, 1987, 2004); or (b) Materialism Scale developed by Belk (MS; Belk, 1984, 1985; Ger & Belk, 1990).”
The Influence of Consumers’ Cognitive and Psychographic Traits on Perceived Deception: A Comparison Between Online and Offline Retailing Contexts (2014, background): “Also, three items from the original Richins and Dawson’s (1992) materialism scale were eliminated, as they were found redundant.”
Faking it: Personality and individual difference predictors of willingness to buy counterfeit goods (2009, neutral): “Material Values Scale (Richins, 2004).”
Material Parenting: How the Use of Goods in Parenting Fosters Materialism in the Next Generation (2015, methodology): “The nine-item version of the Material Values Scale (MVS; Richins 2004) was included in this section and was used to assess respondents’ materialism (a p .88).”
Financial Management Practices and Money Attitudes as Determinants of Financial Problems and Dissatisfaction in Young Male Australian Workers (2013, methodology): “The short form MVS displays adequate internal consistency (α =.75 to .81) and validity (significant correlations with a range of criterion variables and other measures related to materialism) (Richins, 2004).”
Predicting integrity with the HEXACO personality model: Use of self- and observer reports (2008, background): “Materialism, a personality construct that has been intensively investigated in consumer behaviour (see Richins, 2004, for a review), is also very likely to be strongly associated with low Honesty–Humility, but not with any of the B5/FFM variables.”
Gratitude and the Reduced Costs of Materialism in Adolescents (2011, methodology): “The Material Values Scale (MVS; Richins 2004) is a 15-item measure of materialism using a Likert scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree).”
When a better self is only a button click away : Associations between materialistic values, emotional and identity-related buying motives, and compulsive buying tendency online (2007, methodology): “Current consumer culture is characterized by a growing materialistic value orientation: the pursuit of money and material possessions in order to gain image, status, and happiness (Dittmar, 2004a; Kasser & Kanner, 2004; Richins, 2004).”