Is a (Money) Problem Shared, a Problem Halved?
Does talking about one’s money problems reduce financial anxiety? Analyzing 360,398 posts scraped from a web forum, the authors find that financial anxiety falls with the cumulative number of posts made. Consistent results are found in large-scale survey data and preliminary experiments.
Citation:
Matt Meister and Joe J. Gladstone (2021) ,"Is a (Money) Problem Shared, a Problem Halved?", in NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 49, eds. Tonya Williams Bradford, Anat Keinan, and Matthew Matthew Thomson, Duluth, MN : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 927-927.
Authors
Matt Meister, University of Colorado Boulder
Joe J. Gladstone, University of Colorado Boulder
Volume
NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 49 | 2021
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