When the Going Gets Tough the Materialistic Go Shopping: Materialism and Consumption Response to Stress

This research explores the moderating effect of materialism on post traumatic-stress (PTS) in the face of life-threatening events. The results indicate that highly (vs. low) materialistic individuals in the mortal-threat (vs. non-threat) condition reported higher levels of PTS, and exhibited a heightened effect of PTS on maladaptive consumption behaviors.



Citation:

Ayalla Ruvio, Eli Somer, and Aric Rindfleisch (2013) ,"When the Going Gets Tough the Materialistic Go Shopping: Materialism and Consumption Response to Stress", in NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 41, eds. Simona Botti and Aparna Labroo, Duluth, MN : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: .

Authors

Ayalla Ruvio, Temple University, USA
Eli Somer, University of Haifa, Israel
Aric Rindfleisch, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA



Volume

NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 41 | 2013



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