Bracing for the Psychological Storm: Proactive versus Reactive Compensatory Consumption

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The Benefits of Retail Therapy: Making Purchase Decisions Reduces Residual Sadness (2014, background): “For example, shopping may provide distraction (cf. Kim & Rucker, 2012) or social interaction (O'Guinn & Faber, 1989).”
The Compensatory Consumer Behavior Model: How self-discrepancies drive consumer behavior (2017, unknown): “Supporting this hypothesis, individuals who learned that an upcoming intelligence test might return negative results listened longer to music related to intelligence compared to music unrelated to intelligence (i.e., a preference for discrepancy-related consumption; Kim & Rucker, 2012).”
Materialism: the good, the bad, and the ugly (2014, background): “For example, when self-threats (e.g. to intelligence) are anticipated in impending social interactions, people are willing to pay more for products that bolster the intelligence component (e.g. a dictionary set) of their identity prior to the anticipated self-threat (Kim & Rucker, 2012).”
Explaining the Paradox: How Pro-Environmental Behaviour can both Thwart and Foster Well-Being (2013, unknown): “For instance, shopping is used as a way to reduce stress or negative emotions [36–39], purchasing products can provide a hedonic well-being boost [40,41], and consumption is linked to higher life satisfaction [42,43].”