Consumer culture, identity and well-being [ the search for the "good life" and the "body perfect"
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Hove [England] ; New York :
Psychology Press ,
2008
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| Series: | European monographs in social psychology
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| Online Access: | MyiLibrary NetLibrary |
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 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