HUMAN VALUES AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS MONEY

Sex, money and financial hardship: An empirical study of attitudes towards money among undergraduates in Singapore

This study examines the effects of gender and previous experience with financial hardship on people 's attitudes toward money in Singapore. The respondents consisted of 152 undergraduate students who attended management classes at a local university. Factor analysis of items measuring attitudes toward money revealed eight distinct dimensions. Logistic regression analysis was performed to distin...

Money Attitudes and Emotional Intelligence

As the notion of money tends to be imbued with salient emotions, it is plausible that emotional intelligence (EI) has a bearing on the efficacy to cope with emotioneliciting issues involving money. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the extent to which money attitudes relate to EI. The study included a sample of 212 respondents who filled out a questionnaire with items of the M...

Diverging effects of clean versus dirty money on attitudes, values, and interpersonal behavior.

Does the cue of money lead to selfish, greedy, exploitative behaviors or to fairness, exchange, and reciprocity? We found evidence for both, suggesting that people have both sets of meaningful associations, which can be differentially activated by exposure to clean versus dirty money. In a field experiment at a farmers' market, vendors who handled dirty money subsequently cheated customers, whe...

Explaining attitudes towards immigration policies in European countries: The role of human values

European societies have been experiencing increasing rates of immigration in recent decades. At the same time one can observe a substantial rise in anti-foreigner sentiments. In this study we investigate the effect of human values on attitudes towards immigration. We hypothesise that self-transcendent individuals are more supportive of, and conservative individuals are more adverse to, immigrat...

Consumers’ Attitudes towards Green Food production in China: A test of the values-attitudes hierarchy