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Consumer culture, identity and well-being : the search for the "good life" and the "body perfect" / Helga Dittmar ; with contributions from Emma Halliwell ... [and others].
Lippincott Library HC79.C6 D58 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dittmar, Helga.
- Series:
- European monographs in social psychology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Consumption (Economics)--Psychological aspects.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Acquisitiveness.
- Identity (Psychology).
- Well-being.
- Social values.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Hove [England] ; New York : Psychology Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- Understanding the impact of consumer culture
- To have is to be? : psychological functions of material possessions
- Consuming passions? : psychological motives for buying consumer goods
- Is this as good as it gets? : materialistic values and well-being
- I shop therefore I am? : compulsive buying and identity-seeking
- Does size matter? : the impact of ultra-thin media models on women's body image and advertising effectiveness
- Think "ideal" and feel bad? : using self-discrepancies to understand negative media effects
- What is beautiful and who is "cool"? : consumer culture and socialisation
- What is the price of consumer culture? : consequences, implications and the cage within.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-248) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1841696080
- 9781841696089
- OCLC:
- 85484868
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