National differences in materialism using alternative research strategies to explore the construct

Journal of International Consumer Marketing

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 103-134

  Sinkovics, Rudolf R ^a   Holzmuller, Hartmut H ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Comparative text analysis; Consumer values; Emic etic research; Formalized qualitative research; Materialism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986046302     PISSN: 08961530     EISSN: 15287068     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J046v13n02_06     Document Type: Article

References (84)

1. Belk, Russell W. (1985), “Materialism: Trait Aspects of Living in the Material World,” Journal of Consumer Research, 12 (3), 265-80.
2. Belk, Russell W. (1984), Three Scales to Measure Constructs Related to Materialism: Reliability, Validity, andRelationshipstoMeasuresofHappiness,” Advancesin Consumer Research, 11,291-97.
3. Bengston, Vern L. and Mary Christine Lovejoy (1973), Values, Personality, and Social Structure,” American Behavioral Scientist, 16 (July/August), 880-912.
4. Berelson, B.(1952), Contentanalysis incommunicationresearch. ClencoelL:Free Press.
5. Blasius, J. and H. Rohlinger (1988), Korrespondenzanalyse-Einmultivariates Ver- fahrenzur Auswertungvonzweidimensionalen Kontingenztabellen,”in Fortsch- ritte der Statistik-Software 1,4. Konferenz uberdie wissenschaftliche Anwen- dung von Statistik-Software, F. Faulbaum and H.-M. Uehlinger, Eds. Stuttgart, New York: Fischer.
6. Brannen, Julia (1992), Combiningqualitativeandquantitativeapproaches:anover- view,”inMixingMethods:QualitativeundQuantitativeResearch, JuliaBrannen, Ed. Aldershot, UK: Avebury Ashgate Publishing Limited.
7. Bredemeier, Harry C. and Jackson Toby (1960), SocialProblemsinAmerica:Costs and Casualties in an Acquisitive Society. New York: Wiley.
8. Brislin, R.W. (1970), Back Translation for Cross-Cultural Research,” Journal of Cross-Cultural Psycholgoy, 1 (3), 185-216.
9. Bryman, Alan (1992), Quantitative and qualitative research: further reflectionson theirintegration,”in MixingMethods:qualitativeandquantitativeresearch, Julia Brannen, Ed. Aldershot: Avebury Ashgate Publishing Limited.
10. Bryman, Alan (1988), Quantity andquality insocial research. London; Boston: Unwin Hyman.
11. Burdsal, Charles Jr. (1975), An Examination ofSecond OrderMotivationalFactors as Found in Adults,” Journal of Genetic Psychology, 127 (September), 83-89.
12. Campbell, Donald T. (1969), Various Social Attitude Scales,” in Measures of Political Attitudes, John P. Robinson andPhillip R.Shaver, Eds.Ann Arbor, MI: Survey Research Center, University of Michigan.
13. Carley, K. (1993), Coding choices for textual analysis: Acomparison of content analysis and map analysis,” Sociological Methodology, 23, 75-126.
14. Churchill, G.A.(1979), AParadigmforDevelopingBetterMeasuresofMarketing Constructs,” Journal of Marketing Research, 16 (February), 64-73.
15. Claxton, Reid P., Jeff B. Murray, and Janda Swinder (1995), Spouses’Materialism: Effects of Parenthood Status, Personality Type, and Sex,” Journal of Consumer Policy, 18,267-91.
16. Craig, C. Samuel, Susan P. Douglas, and Andreas Grein (1992), Patternsofconver- gence and divergence among industrialized nations: 1960-1988,”JournalofIn- ternational Business Studies, 23 (4), 773-87.
17. Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly and Eugene Rochberg-Halton (1981), The Meaning of Things:Domestic Symbolsandthe Self. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press.
18. Cushman, Philip (1990), Why the Self Is Empty,” American Psychologist, 45 (May), 599-611.
19. Danowski, J.A. (1988),“Organizational Infographicsandautomatedauditing:Using computerstounobtrusivelygatherandanalyzecommunication,”in Handbookof OrganizationalCommunication, G. Goldhaber and G. Barnett, Eds.NorwoodNJ: Ablex.
20. Denzin, Norman K. (1970), The Research Act in Sociology. London: Butterworth.
21. DeVellis, R.F.(1991), Scale Development-Theory and Applications. Neybury Park: Sage.
22. DeYoung, Raymond (1985), Encouraging Environmentally Appropriate Behavior: The Role of Intrinsic Motivation,” Journal of Environmental Systems, 15 (4), 281-92.
23. Dickins, Dorothy and Virginia Ferguson (1957), Practices and Attitudes of Rural white Children and Parents Concerning Money,”MissisippiAgriculturalExperi- ment Station Technical Bulletin, 43.
24. Dittmar, Helga and Lucy Pepper (1994), To have isto be: Materialism and person perception in working-class and middle-class British adolescents, ” Journal of Economic Psychology, 15 (2), 233-52.
25. Douglas, Susan P. and Samuel C.Craig (1983), International Marketing Research. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall Inc.
26. Eastman, Jacqueline K., Bill Fredenberger, David Campbell, and Stephen Calvert (1997), The relationship between statusconsumption and materialism: Across- cultural comparison of Chinese, Mexican and American students,” Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice, 5 (1), 52-66.
27. Elder J.W. (1976), Comparative Cross-nationalMethodology,”Annual Review of Sociology, 2, 209-30.
28. Ellis, F.S. (1968), A lexical concordance to the poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. New York: B. Franklin.
29. Ericsson, K.A. and H.A. Simon (1984), Protocol Analysis: Verbal reports as data. Cambridge: MIT Press.
30. Feldman, L.P. (1971), Societal Adaptation: A New Challenge for Marketing,” Journal of Marketing, 35,54-60.
31. Fox, Richard Wightman and TJ. Jackson Lears (1983), TieCultureofConsumption: Critical Essays in American History, 1880-1980. New York: Pantheon.
32. Franzosi, R. (1990a), Computer-assisted coding of textual data,” Sociological Methods and Research, 19,225-57.
33. Franzosi, R. (1995), Computer-assisted content analysisofnewspapers: Can wemake an expensive tool more efficient?” Quality and Quantity, 29,157-72.
34. Franzosi, R. (1989), Fromwords to numbers: Ageneralized linguistics-based coding procedure for collecting textual data,” Sociological Methodology, 19,263-98.
35. Franzosi, R. (1990b), Strategies forthe prevention, detection, and correction ofmea- surementerrorindatacollectedfromtextualsources,”SociologicalMethodsand Research, 18, 442-72.
36. Fruh, W. (1991), Inhaltsanalyse. Theorieund Praxis. Mnnchen: OlschlagerVerlag.
37. Ger, Guliz and Russell W. Belk (1996), Cross-cultural differences in materialism,” Journal of Economic Psychology, 17 (1), 55-78.
38. Heilbroner, Robert L. (1956), The Quest for Wealth: A Study of Acquisitive Man. New York: Simon & Schuster.
39. Heslin, Richard, Blair T. Johnson, and Brian F. Blake (1989), Saver-Spender Scales,”in Proceedings of the Society for Consumer Psychology 1988, David W. Schumann (Ed.). Washington, DC: Society for Consumer Psychology.
40. Hofstede, Geerd (1980), Culture’s Consequences: International Differencesin Work- Related Values. Beverley Hills: Sage Publications.
41. Inglehart, Ronald (1981), Post-materialism in an Environment of Insecurity,” American Political Science Review, 75, 880-900.
42. Jackson, Douglas N., A. Ahmed Sadrudin, and Nelson A. Heapy (1976), Is Achievement a Unitary Construct?” Journal of Research in Personality, 10 (March), 1-21.
43. Jambu, M. (1992), Explorative Datenanalyse. Stuttgart, Jena, New York.
44. Justice, Blair and Roger Birkman (1972), An Effortto Distinguish the Violent from the Nonviolent,” Southern Medical Journal, 65 (6), 703-06.
45. Kelle, U. Ed.(1995), Computer-aided qualitative data analysis, methods andprac- tice. London: Sage.
46. Kwon, Jung, Jochen Wirtz, Soo Jiuan Tan, and Ah Keng Kau (1999), The seven facesofSingaporeans: Atypology ofSingapore consumersand theiraspirations and life satisfaction,” Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 16 (2), 229-48.
47. La Barbera, Priscilla A. and Gurhan Zeynep (1997), The role of materialism, religiosity, anddemographicsinsubjectivewell-being,” Psychology and Market-ing, 14 (1), 71-97.
48. Lundstrom, William J. and Steven D. White (1999), Intergerational and cultural differencesin materialism: AnempiricalinvestigationofconsumersfromFrance and the USA,” Journal of Euro-Marketing, 7 (2), 47-65.
49. Mallery (1985), Universality and Individuality: The interaction of noun phrase determiners in copular clauses,” in 23 rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Chicago.
50. Mannion, Caolan and Teresa Brannick (1995), Materialismanditsmeasurement,” Irish Business and Administrative Research, 16 (1), 1-14.
51. Melina, Alexa(1998), Computer-assisted text analysis methodology in thesocial sciences.”Mannheim: Zentrumfur Umfragen, Methodenund Analysen(ZUMA).
52. Miles, Matthew B. and Michael A. Huberman (1997), Qualitative data analysis:An expanded sourcebook (2. ed. ed.). Thousand Oaks CA: Sage Publications.
53. Moschis, George P. and Gilbert A. Churchill (1978), Consumer Socialization: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis,” Journal of Marketing Research, 15 (November), 599-609.
54. Mukerji, Chandra (1983), From graven images: Patterns of modern materialism. New York: Columbia University Press.
55. Muncy, James A. and Jacqueline K. Eastman (1998), Materialism and Consumer Ethics: An exploratory Study,” Journal of Business Ethics, 17,137-45.
56. Nunnally, Num C. (1978), Psychometric Theory. New York: McGraw-Hill.
57. Pike, K.(1966), Language in Relationtoa Unified Theory of the Structure of Human Behavior. NL: The Hague.
58. Polanyi, K.(1985), Telling the American story:Astructuralandcultural analysisof conversational storytelling. Norwood NJ: Ablex.
59. Rassuli, Kathleen M. and Stanley C. Hollander (1986), Desire-Induced, Innate, Insatiable?” Journal of Macromarketing, 6 (2), 4-24.
60. Richins, Marsha L. (1987), Media, Materialism, and Human Happiness,” in Ad- vancesin Consumer Research, Melanie Wallendorf and Paul Anderson, Eds.Vol. 14. Provo, UT: Association for Consumer Research.
61. Richins, Marsha L. (1994), Special Possessions and the Expression of Material Values,” Journal of Consumer Research, 21 (December), 522-33.
62. Richins, Marsha L. and Scott Dawson (1992), A ConsumerValues Orientation for Materialism andItsMeasurement: Scale Development and Validation,”Journal of Consumer Research, 19 (December), 303-16.
63. Richins, Marsha L. and Floyd W. Rudmin (1994), Materialism and economic psychology,” Journal of Economic Psychology, 15 (2), 217-32.
64. Roberts, C.W. (1989), Otherthan counting words: Alinguistic approach to content analysis,” Social Forces, 68, 147-77.
65. Roberts, C.W (1997), Semantic text analysis:On thestructure oflinguistic ambiguityin ordinary discourse,”in Text analysisforthesocial sciences: methodsfordrawing statistical inferences from texts and transcripts, C.W. Roberts, Ed. Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc. Publishers.
66. Roberts, C.W. and R. Popping (1996), Themes, syntax and othernecessary stepsin the network analysis of texts: a research paper,” SocialScience Information,35 (4), 657-65.
67. Sacks, H. (1972), On the analysability of stories by children,” in Directions in Socio-linguistics, J. Gumprez andD. Hymes, Eds. New York: Rinehart & Winston.
68. Salzberger, T., R. Sinkovics, and H.H. Holzmuller (1997), Problems of Equivalence in Cross-Cultural Marketing Research,”in AnnualConferenceoftheAcademyof Marketing Science, E.J.; Wilson and J.F. Hair (Eds.) Vol. 20. Coral Gables, Florida.
69. Salzberger, Thomas(1998), DieLosungvon Aquivalenzproblemeninderinterkul- turellen Marketingforschungmittels Methodenderprobabilistischen MeBtheo-rie,” Doctoral Dissertation, Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien (WU-Wien).
70. Salzberger, Thomas, Rudolf Sinkovics, and Bodo B. Schlegelmilch (1999), Data Equivalence in Cross-Cultural Research: AComparison ofClassical TestTheory andLatent Trait Theory Based Approaches,” AustralasianMarketingJournal,7 (2), 23-38.
71. Scott, Cliff and William J. Lundstrom (1990), Dimensions of possession satisfac- tion:Apreliminaryanalysis, ’ ’ JournalofConsumerSatisfaction/Dissatisfaction and Consumer Behavior, 3,100-04.
72. Sethi, Prakash S.(1971), Comparative ClusterAnalysisforWorld Markets, ’ ’Journal of Marketing Research, 8 (3), 348-54.
73. Sinkovics, RudolfR., Thomas Salzberger, and Hartmut H. Holzmuller (1998), As¬sessing Measurement Equivalence in Cross-National Consumer BehaviorRe- search:Principles, RelevanceandApplicationIssues, ’ ’ in NewDevelopmentsand Approaches in Consumer Behaviour Research, Ingo Balderjahn and Claudia Mennicken, Eds. London: MacMillan.
74. Steenkamp, J.B. and H. Baumgartner (1998), Assessing Measurement Invariancein Cross-National ConsumerResearch,” Journal of Consumer Research, 25(June), 78-90.
75. van de Vijver Fons and Kwok Leung (1998), Methodsand dataanalysisforcross- cultural research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
76. van Lehn, K. and S. Garlick(1987), Cirrus: An automatedprotocol analysistool,” in 4th International Workshop on Machine Learning, P. Langley (Ed.). LosAltos CA: Morgan-Kaufman.
77. Wackman, Daniel B., Greg Reale, and Scott Ward (1972), Racial Differences in Responsesto Advertisingamong Adolescents,” inTelevisioninDay-to-DayLife, Eli A. Rubenstein and George A. Comstock and John P. Murray, Eds.Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
78. Ward, Scott and Daniel Wackman(1971), Family and MediaInfluenceson Adolescent Consumer Learning,” American Behavioral Scientist, 14 (January/February), 415-27.
79. Weber, R. (1990), Basic content analysis (2nd Edition ed.). Newsberry Park, CA: Sage Publications.
80. Weitzman, Eben A. and Matthew B. Miles(1995), Computer Programs for Qualita-tive Analysis. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
81. Wold, H.(1980), Model Construction and Evaluationwhen Theoretical Knowledge is Scarce,” in Evaluation of Econometric Models, J. Kmenta and J.B. Ramsey, Eds. New York.
82. Wold, H (1982), Soft Modeling: The Basic Design and some Extensions,” in Systems under Indirect Observations, H.G. Joreskog and H. Wold, Eds. V 1. Part 2. Amsterdam.
83. Zinkhan, George M. (1994), Advertising, materialism, and the quality of life,” Journal of Advertising, 23 (2), 1-4.
84. Zuell, C., P.P. Mohler, and A. Gleis(1991), ComputerunterstutzteInhaltsanalysemit TEXTPACKPC. Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag.