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Dittmar Helga

Consumer culture, identity and wel-being : The search for the good life and the body perfect - London Routledge 2007 - 271p xvii

Table of contents
1. Understanding the Impact of Consumer Culture;
2. To Have is to Be? Psychological Functions of Material Possessions;
3. Consuming Passions? Psychological Motives for Buying Consumer Goods;
4. Is this as Good as it Gets? Materialistic Values and Well-Being;
5. I Shop Therefore I Am? Compulsive Buying and Identity-Seeking;
6. Does Size Matter? The Impact of Ultra-Thin Media Models on Women's Body Image and on Advertising Effectiveness;
7. Think 'Ideal' and Feel Bad? Using Self-Discrepancies to Understand Negative Media Effects;
8. What is Beautiful and Who is 'Cool'? Consumer Culture and Socialisation;
9. What is the Price of Consumer Culture? Consequences, Implications, and the Cage Within.

ISBN: 9781848720626

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Consumption - Economics - Psychological Aspects2. Identity - Psychology3. Acquisitiveness

Dewey Class. No.: 306.300000 / DIT