Consumer culture, identity and well-being the search for the "good life" and the "body perfect" /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dittmar, Helga.
Other Authors: Halliwell, Emma.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Hove [England] ; New York : Psychology Press, 2008.
Series:European monographs in social psychology.
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Table of 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.