Materialism, narcissism and the attitide towards conspicuous consumption

Psihologija

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 113-129

  Velov, Branko ^a   Gojković, Vesna ^a   Dłurić, Veljko ^a  

^a Dr Lazar Vrkatic Faculty for Law and Business Studies   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Conspicuous consumption; Materialism; Narcissism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898642365     PISSN: 00485705     EISSN: 14519283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2298/PSI1401113V     Document Type: Article

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