This paper aims to provide new insight into refugee consumers' adaptation stress with a particular emphasis on consumption coping strategies and well-being. Drawing the appraisal-coping theory, this proposes theoretical framework relating responses Social support is also introduced in as moderator. Examining interplays between these concepts provides comprehensive view of how changes patterns o...

This study explored middle- to high income consumers’ awareness and opinions of cause-related marketing the influences selected campaign structural elements on responses. The was conducted using qualitative focus groups a quantitative 2 × factorial experiment. A communications approach adopted investigate consumer responses communicated itself with education as beneficiary. research revealed th...

The premise of the rationality of consumers is examined in this paper, by analyzing responses to a study regarding outdoor recreation. On-site surveys were performed in parks in the Upper Galilee area in the north of Israel. We inquired about the willingness to pay (WTP) entrance fee to a planned park, the Hula Project. The mean value, NIS 30, is much higher than entrance fee to existing parks ...

This paper investigates preference heterogeneity of wine consumers by using latent class models based on attitudinal questions. Such responses turn out to be an important source of additional information when the goal is to identify different groups of people with a similar wine preference structure. We assume that preferences are latent and the responses to attitudinal questions are the visibl...

Energy-economy models have emerged to provide policy makers with , information on the effect of their policies. These models are used to forecast the responses of businesses and consumers, and the costs of these responses may be estimated using a cost accounting method. In this paper, I suggest three improvements that can be made to energy-economy models and cost accounting techniques. First, I...

Over 1200 randomly selected subjects from the U.S. and key European countries were interviewed by telephone, to establish how consumers perceive the meaning and relative value scale of tar yields of commercial cigarettes. Some 50% of respondents interpreted numerical tar yields as being precise quantitative predictors of intake related to health effects. A less precise quantitative intuition is...

This study examines responses of 336 produce consumers in San Luis Obispo County, California, to compare the profi le of farmers’ market shoppers to those who do not shop at farmers’ markets. The characteristics of produce sold in farmers’ markets are compared to those sold at supermarkets to determine why consumers shop in farmers’ markets. This examination of the demographic profi le of farme...

Ecologists have long observed that consumers can maintain species diversity in communities of their prey. Many theories of how consumers mediate diversity invoke a tradeoff between species' competitive ability and their ability to withstand predation. Under this constraint, the best competitors are also most susceptible to consumers, preventing them from excluding other species. However, empiri...

OBJECTIVE Recent studies show a high prevalence of trauma symptoms among people with serious mental illness who are treated in public-sector mental health systems. Unfortunately, growing evidence suggests that many consumers have had traumatic or harmful experiences while being treated in various psychiatric settings. This study explores consumers' perceptions of such harmful inpatient experien...

1. Imbalances between the supply of elements from resources and their demand from consumers may constrain key ecological processes, such as growth and production. Most previous studies have estimated such stoichiometric imbalances between consumers and resources by inferring the diet of the former from functional classifications rather than by direct assessments of the diet. However, this does ...