Relation of Parental Caring to Conspicuous Consumption Attitudes in Adolescents

Adolescent conspicuous consumption attitudes are perversely rooted in human relationships and interfere with personal growth and engagement in adult roles. Negative associations between parental caring and conspicuous consumption could be evidence of a compensatory motive to seek for the passing adm...

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Published in:Journal of family and economic issues 2012-12, Vol.33 (4), p.389-399
Main Authors: Gudmunson, Clinton G., Beutler, Ivan F.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescents
Adults
Attitudes
Autonomy
Behavior
Class
Competence
Conspicuous consumption
Consumer attitudes
Consumer behavior
Consumerism
Consumers
Consumption
Economic behaviour. Consumption
Economic models
Economic sociology
Economic statistics
Economic theory
Evidence
Families & family life
Family
Family Research
Human capital
Leisure
Materialism
Middle Class
Original Paper
Parents
Parents & parenting
Peer relationships
Personality and Social Psychology
Psychological aspects
Sexuality. Marriage. Family relations
Social Class
Social classes
Social Policy
Social Sciences
Socialization
Sociology
Sociology of economy and development
Sociology of the family. Age groups
Studies
Teenagers
Upper class
Youth problems
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Summary:Adolescent conspicuous consumption attitudes are perversely rooted in human relationships and interfere with personal growth and engagement in adult roles. Negative associations between parental caring and conspicuous consumption could be evidence of a compensatory motive to seek for the passing admiration of others when parent–child relationships fail to fulfill basic needs of competence, autonomy, and relatedness. Very little support, however, was found for Veblen’s original hypothesis that conspicuous consumption attitudes are driven by perceived social class distinctions. Yet, immersion in the consumer culture promoted by the media predicted higher levels of conspicuous consumption attitudes which were also more prominent among older adolescents. This small-scale study of 257, predominantly middle-class adolescents, calls attention to the need for more family socialization studies of adolescent money attitudes.
ISSN:1058-0476
1573-3475
DOI:10.1007/s10834-012-9282-7