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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Helga Dittmar , Professor Rupert BrownPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Psychology Press Ltd Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.550kg ISBN: 9781848720626ISBN 10: 1848720629 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 17 September 2010 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Replaced By: 9781138053441 Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews'Dr. Dittmar has done us a great service by writing a book on the importance of 'consuming' to society and to individual identity and well-being that is both scholarly and accessible. The book tackles some tough questions regarding who and what people want to be, how they go about constructing their 'selves', and just what is it that people want from life and why. I wish more research psychologists were writing books like this' -- James E. Maddux, George Mason University, Washington, USA 'Dittmar's book provides a valuable review of her ground-breaking psychological studies of consumer culture. In my mind, the book's strongest contribution is its explication of how identity-related processes help explain the damage that occurs when individuals take on the materialistic values and unhealthy body images encouraged in our contemporary world.' -- Tim Kasser, Knox College, USA 'Consumer Culture, Identity and Well-Being: The Search for the 'Good Life' and the 'Body Perfect' discusses an important and timely issue--the psychological impact of mass consumption that visibly pervades our consumer culture... The author makes a contribution by focusing on identity.' - Candice R. Hollenbeck & George M. Zinkhan, PsycCRITIQUES ... The author and her contributors write commandingly and offer a well-structured, well-presented analysis of the existing studies and illustrate quite succinctly the maladaptive consequences of a society and its individuals who equate material success with self-worth. - Kristina Downing-Orr, clinical psychologist, London, UK, in The Psychologist Dr. Dittmar has done us a great service by writing a book on the importance of 'consuming' to society and to individual identity and well-being that is both scholarly and accessible. The book tackles some tough questions regarding who and what people want to be, how they go about constructing their 'selves', and just what is it that people want from life and why. I wish more research psychologists were writing books like this. - James E. Maddux, George Mason University, Washington, USA Dittmar's book provides a valuable review of her ground-breaking psychological studies of consumer culture. In my mind, the book's strongest contribution is its explication of how identity-related processes help explain the damage that occurs when individuals take on the materialistic values and unhealthy body images encouraged in our contemporary world. - Tim Kasser, Knox College, USA Consumer Culture, Identity and Well-Being: The Search for the 'Good Life' and the 'Body Perfect' discusses an important and timely issue - the psychological impact of mass consumption that visibly pervades our consumer culture. ... The author makes a contribution by focusing on identity. - Candice R. Hollenbeck & George M. Zinkhan, PsycCRITIQUES Author InformationHelga Dittmar, D.Phil, is Reader in Psychology at the University of Sussex in England, where she completed her undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications, after beginning her studies in psychology at the University of Frankfurt in Germany. Her research focuses on mass consumer society and how this has an impact on people’s sense of who they are and their well-being. Her work has received strong media interest (TV, radio) and includes: psychological functions of material possessions, buying motivations, compulsive buying, materialism, as well as the influence of the mass media on the body image of girls, women and men. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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