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

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When Is Identity Congruent with the Self? A Self-Determination Theory Perspective (2011, background): “This discrepancy would then result in negative feelings and, in the long run, in a pervasive sense of identity deficit and subsequent maladjustment (Dittmar, 2007; Kasser, 2002).”
Shopping enjoyment to the extreme: Hedonic shopping motivations and compulsive buying in developed and emerging markets (2017, background): “…feelings (O'Guinn& Faber, 1989) and instead experience positive emotions (Rindfleisch, Burroughs, &Denton, 1997; Roberts, Manolis, & Tanner, 2006); to improve their self- and social image; and to express themselves (Dittmar, 2007; Escalas & Bettman, 2005; KukarKinney, Ridgway, &Monroe, 2012).”
Endangered childhoods: how consumerism is impacting child and youth identity (2011, background): “Despite decades of research, what is clear is that the effects of consumerism, in which advertising plays an important role, are psychologically and physically harmful (Dittmar, 2007; Kasser et al., 2007; Kramer, 2006; Linn, 2004; Schor, 2004).”
The rich—love them or hate them? Divergent implicit and explicit attitudes toward the wealthy (2017, background): “Some psychologists assert that the desire to be rich is so pervasive in American society because it is a product of capitalist, consumerist culture (Dittmar, 2007; Kasser, Cohn, Kanner, & Ryan, 2007), while other psychologists see the drive to accumulate wealth as more universal, stemming from a mor”