Consumer culture, identity, and well-being
Subtitle: the search for the 'good life' and the 'body perfect'
By: Helga Dittmar ; with contributions from Emma Halliwell ... [et al.].
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Hove, East Sussex; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781841696089
Subjects: Consumption (Economics) -- Psychological aspects; Acquisitiveness; Identity (Psychology); Well-being; Social values
Table of contents: title: Understanding the impact of consumer culture; title: To have is to be? : psychological functions of material possessions; title: Consuming passions? : psychological motives for buying consumer goods; title: Is this as good as it gets? : materialistic values and well-being; title: I shop therefore I am? : compulsive buying and identity-seeking; title: Does size matter? : the impact of ultra-thin media models on women's body image and advertising effectiveness; title: Think "ideal" and feel bad? : using self-discrepancies to understand negative media effects; title: What is beautiful and who is 'cool'? : consumer culture and socialisation; title: What is the price of consumer culture? : consequences, implications and the cage within.