Summary information
Study title
Promaterial and Postmaterial Life Styles
Creator
Gläser, Ariane (Institut für Haushalts- und Konsumökonomik, Lehrstuhl für Konsumtheorie und Verbraucherpolitik, Universität Hohenheim )
Scherhorn, Gerhard (Institut für Haushalts- und Konsumökonomik, Lehrstuhl für Konsumtheorie und Verbraucherpolitik, Universität Hohenheim)
Study number / PID
ZA2421, Version 2.0.0 (GESIS)
10.4232/1.12479 (DOI)
Data access
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Series
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Abstract
Life style and attitude to consumption. Topics: The following was
surveyed in the form of scales: 1. Positionality: need to issue
directives professionally; desire to drive prestige vehicle; desire for
recognition; placing value on correct clothing; need to achieve;
ambition; career orientation. 2. Ties to products: prestige-oriented
consumption; importance of sophisticated atmosphere in shopping malls
and shopping centers; significance of shopping experience; importance
of beautiful, valuable things as well as rejection of used and
unsightly objects; preference for obtaining replacement or new
purchase; placing value on stylish furnishing; desire for more luxury;
pioneering consumer behavior. 3. General self-value: general
satisfaction; self-respect; feeling of uselessness. 4. Compatibility
with nature: boycott of products harmful to the environment; purchase
orientation on environmental compatibility of a product; attitude to
leaving packaging at the store after purchase; attitude to returnable
bottles; attitude to plastic bottles on trips and hikes; criticism of
too large a selection of products harmful to the environment; attitude
to canned food; use of plastic bags as shopping bags; deliberate
purchase of environmentally compatible washing and cleansing agents;
orientation on the environmental protection symbol of the Federal
Environment Office. 5. Social compatibility: willingness to help;
sympathy as intervention in the private sphere; expected effectiveness
of personal assistance; commitment for social fringe groups; lack of
time as obstacle for social commitment; leisure time as recuperation
time; consideration and tolerance as education goal; willingness to
help as important work content. 6. Self-acceptance: ability to accept
compliments; positive or negative self-image; feelings of despondency;
feelings of guilt; sensitivity to criticism; insecurity in group
situations; opinion allegiance. 7. Causality orientation: autonomy
orientation; control...
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Methodology
Data collection period
10/1991
Country
Germany
Time dimension
Not availableAnalysis unit
Not availableUniverse
Not availableSampling procedure
Multiply stratified random sample
Kind of data
Not availableData collection mode
Oral survey with standardized questionnaire
Access
Publisher
GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences
Publication year
2016
Terms of data access
A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.
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