Green choices motives

Consumption and Investment Motives and the Portfolio Choices of Homeowners

This article investigates the portfolio choices of homeowners, taking into account the investment constraint introduced by Henderson and Ioannides (1983). This constraint requires housing investment by homeowners to be at least as large as housing consumption. It is shown that when the constraint is binding, the homeowner's optimal portfolio is ineffcient in a mean-variance sense. Thus, portfol...

A green paradox: Validating green choices has ironic effects on behavior, cognition, and perception

Romance, risk, and replication: Can consumer choices and risk-taking be primed by mating motives?

Interventions aimed at influencing spending behavior and risk-taking have considerable practical importance. A number of studies motivated by the costly signaling theory within evolutionary psychology have reported that priming inductions (such as looking at pictures of attractive opposite sex members) designed to trigger mating motives increase males' stated willingness to purchase conspicuous...

A nursing career in mental health care: choices and motives of nursing students.

PURPOSE This article describes the results of a study into how first-year nursing students' perceptions of psychiatric patients and mental health care influence their choice of specialization in mental health care and future working in this sector. METHOD A descriptive qualitative study design with semi-structured interviews. Respondents were selected through purposive sampling among all firs...

Study motives, career choices and interest in paediatric dentistry among final year dental students in Nigeria

BACKGROUND Students' motives for studying Dentistry have been a subject of interest for years because of the potential for understanding the psychological makeup and subsequent job satisfaction for the dentist. It is also useful in identifying expectations of the profession. This study therefore tried to identify study motives and career preferences of dental students especially with respect to...