We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Family Disruption and Consumer Attitudes and Behavior: An Exploratory Investigation.
- Authors
Rindfleisch, Aric; Burroughs, James E.; Denton, Frank
- Abstract
Despite the rapid and dramatic changes in the structure of the American family over the past 25 years, consumer researchers have largely neglected how these alternative family forms influence consumer behavior. As a preliminary inquiry into this area, we present an exploratory study which examines the relationship between family disruption and the presence of materialistic attitudes and compulsive consumption behavior among young adults reared in intact versus disrupted family forms. The specific family measures used to investigate these relationships include: (1)whether a family disruption had occurred, (2) respondent's age at initial disruption, and(3) the number of total disruptions. Considering the well documented reduction in financial resources experienced by disrupted families, we also controlled for differences in household income. Although we found no evidence of a relationship between family structure and materialism or compulsive consumption, we did discover significant relationships between these dependent measures and both age at initial disruption and the number of total disruptions. No statistical support was found for the attenuating effects of household income.
- Subjects
UNITED States; FAMILIES; CONSUMER behavior research; DYSFUNCTIONAL families; COMPULSIVE behavior; CONSUMER research
- Publication
Advances in Consumer Research, 1996, Vol 23, Issue 1, p83
- ISSN
0098-9258
- Publication type
Article