A new approach to measuring materialism

This paper presents a different set of measurement for materialism based on the theoretical foundation of Richins and Dawson. After various tests, a new 16-item scale was developed to measure four components of materialism, namely material success, material happiness, material essentiality and mater...

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Main Authors: Trinh, Viet, Phau, Ian
Other Authors: Seung-Hee Lee
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Korean Scholars of Marketing Science 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11901
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description This paper presents a different set of measurement for materialism based on the theoretical foundation of Richins and Dawson. After various tests, a new 16-item scale was developed to measure four components of materialism, namely material success, material happiness, material essentiality and material distinctiveness.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-119012017-02-28T01:32:57Z A new approach to measuring materialism Trinh, Viet Phau, Ian Seung-Hee Lee Materialism Measurement Scale This paper presents a different set of measurement for materialism based on the theoretical foundation of Richins and Dawson. After various tests, a new 16-item scale was developed to measure four components of materialism, namely material success, material happiness, material essentiality and material distinctiveness. 2012 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11901 Korean Scholars of Marketing Science fulltext
spellingShingle Materialism
Measurement
Scale
Trinh, Viet
Phau, Ian
A new approach to measuring materialism
title A new approach to measuring materialism
title_full A new approach to measuring materialism
title_fullStr A new approach to measuring materialism
title_full_unstemmed A new approach to measuring materialism
title_short A new approach to measuring materialism
title_sort new approach to measuring materialism
topic Materialism
Measurement
Scale
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11901