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