Subjective Well-Being among Adolescent Consumers: The Effects of Materialism, Compulsive Buying, and Time Affluence

Applied Research in Quality of Life

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 117-135

  Manolis, Chris ^a   Roberts, James A ^b  

^a XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Compulsive buying; Materialism; Subjective well being; Time affluence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860463904     PISSN: 18712584     EISSN: 18712576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11482-011-9155-5     Document Type: Article

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