Using data from the fifth wave of the World Values Survey (2005-2008), this study examined the relationship between affluence, post-materialist values, and pro-environmental attitudes from individuals from Morocco, Uruguay, Sweden, and the United States. Demographic variables were also analyzed to determine which factors were the best predictors of pro-environmental attitudes from each of the f...

Results of four experiments reveal a counterintuitive solution to the common problem of feeling that one does not have enough time: Give some of it away. Although the objective amount of time people have cannot be increased (there are only 24 hours in a day), this research demonstrates that people's subjective sense of time affluence can be increased. We compared spending time on other people w...

BACKGROUND Why do some people live for the present, whereas others save for the future? The evolutionary framework of life history theory predicts that preference for delay of gratification should be influenced by social economic status (SES). However, here we propose that the decision to choose alternatives in immediate and delayed gratification in poverty environments may have a psychological...

Study objective: To examine the completion rate, internal reliability, and external validity of a home affluence scale based on adolescents’ reports of material circumstances in the home as a measure of family socioeconomic status. Design: Cross sectional survey. Setting: Data were collected from a school based study in seven schools in the north of England Cheshire over a five month period fro...

Based on data collected from a representative national sample, India Human Development Survey 2005, this paper investigates the links between obesity among children and among adults with a number of socio economic characteristics as well as household and location specific variables. Both child and adult obesity are far from negligible, which is a matter of concern, given the links between obesi...

Results of four experiments reveal a counterintuitive solution to the common problem of feeling that one does not have enough time: Give some of it away. Although the objective amount of time people have cannot be increased (there are only 24 hours in a day), this research demonstrates that people’s subjective sense of time affluence can be increased. We compared spending time on other people w...

243 words) Purpose—The purpose of this paper is to examine the cultivation effects of television advertising viewing on the perceived affluence in society and the materialistic value orientations among adolescents in urban and rural China. Design/methodology/approach—A survey of 646 adolescents aged 11 to 17 in Guangzhou city and in a rural county of Henan province were conducted in 2006. Const...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To examine the completion rate, internal reliability, and external validity of a home affluence scale based on adolescents' reports of material circumstances in the home as a measure of family socioeconomic status. DESIGN Cross sectional survey. SETTING Data were collected from a school based study in seven schools in the north of England Cheshire over a five month period fr...