Journal of Consumer Affairs

2012 - 2025

Current editor(s): Sharon Tennyson

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Volume 59, issue 3, 2025

Enhancing Financial Knowledge Through High School Education: The Effect of Mandated Economics and Personal Finance Courses

Taufiq Hasan Quadria and Israt Jahan

“Pathways” to Financial Well‐Being: The Role of Perceptions of Economic Mobility, Trait Hope, and Financial Capability for Minority and Low‐Income Consumers

Jonathan Ross Gilbert, Daniel A. Sheinin, Jing Jian Xiao and Bo Wen

A National Risk Aversion Perspective on Pension Contributions and Benefits Paid: Insights From OECD Countries

Dinh Van, Thai Le and Huong Phung

The Relationship Between Financial Satisfaction and Financial Literacy: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

Joelle H. Fong and Talia Ye Tao

Online Shopping and Financial Literacy Among the Elderly

Xu Cui, Jing Jian Xiao and Jinpeng Wang

Payment Preference or Necessity: Who Uses BNPL and Why

Jeff Larrimore, Alicia Lloro, Zofsha Merchant and Anna Tranfaglia

Factors and Determinants of Financial Behaviors That Undermine Financial Well‐Being: A Qualitative Study

Tania Morris, Lamine Kamano and Vicky Therrien

What My Parents Did for Me: Parental Financial Sacrifice, Money Scripts, and Financial Behaviors Among Hong Kong Youths in Low‐SES Households

Xiaomin Li, Ashley Kuelz, Muhammad Aamir Khan and Ashley B. LeBaron‐Black

Exploring Consumption Stigma: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda

Siti N. Suwanda, Emily C. Tanner, Farnoush Reshadi and M. Paula Fitzgerald

The Hedonic Penalty in Supporting Low‐Income Consumers' Needs

Hoori Rafieian, Anubhav Aggarwal, Eric Hamerman and Qi Di Zheng

Volume 59, issue 2, 2025

Health Halos or Drinkability? Evaluating What Is Behind Hard Seltzer's Meteoric Growth

Aaron J. Staples, Trey Malone, Brenna Ellison and Vincenzina Caputo

Are You Willing to Share Your DNA With Us? An Exploratory Insight Into the Privacy Calculus of Direct‐To‐Consumer Genetic Testing

Inês Raeiro, Jonas Nilsson, Xuexin Li and Jeanette Carlsson Hauff

Scale Development and Validation of Generation Y's Travel Purchasing Behavior (GenYpurch)

Gul Nur Demiral and Erkan Sezgin

Political Orientation and Vaccination Attitude: The Moderating Role of Power Distance Belief

Genevieve O'Connor, Hoori Rafieian, Nancy Wong and Avani Surana

The Determinants of Student Loan Repayment Worry

Frank M. Magwegwe

Becoming Competent Consumers: Exploring the Dynamics of the Consumer Socialization Process Between Parents and Their Adolescents

Bo Dhondt, Dieneke Van de Sompel and Liselot Hudders

Social Capital and Its Psychological Consequences on Consumer Resilience–A Mediated Moderation Model

Lucie K. Ozanne, Girish Prayag and Mesbahuddin Chowdhury

Factors That Influence Willingness to Commit Insurance Fraud

Brenda J. Cude and Hanchun Zhang

Exploratory Factor Analysis of Financial Services and Products Indicators: The Dimensionality of Financial Access

Yingying Zhang, Julie Birkenmaier and Jin Huang

Skating on Thin Ice: New Evidence on Financial Fragility

Jasmira T. E. Wiersma, Rob J. M. Alessie, Adriaan Kalwij, Annamaria Lusardi and Maarten van Rooij

Household Financial Wellbeing During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: An Instrumental Variable Approach

Nilton Porto, Gary R. Mottola and Olivia Valdes

Volume 59, issue 1, 2025

Utilization of Alternative Financial Services and the Role of Financial Capability

Swarn Chatterjee and Yunhee Chang

The Negative Effects of Tipping Suggestions From Non‐Human Agents: Consumer Dislike of Manipulative Intent Perceptions

Amin Attari, Frank G. Cabano and Elizabeth A. Minton

COVID‐19 Labor Market Shocks and Withdrawals From Retirement Accounts: Understanding the Moderating Role of Financial Knowledge

Sunwoo Lee, Kyoung Tae Kim and Sherman D. Hanna

Enhancing Consumer Satisfaction in Complex Choices Through a Sequential Elimination Approach

Olga Poluektova, Martina Barjaková and Pete Lunn

Reducing Food Waste Behavior for Sustainable Consumption: The Effect of Food Consumption Values on Food Waste

Hyesun Hwang, Su‐Jung Nam and Yu Lim Lee

Digital Vulnerability: Exploring the Mediating Role of FoMO in the Relationship Between Dark Triad Personality and Social Media Addiction

Chien‐Po Liao, Chi‐Cheng Wu and Eva Chia Hua Chiu

Distinguishing Between Recovery and Transformation: A Systematic Review of Purchasing and Consumption During Crises

Eimante Survilaite, Vilte Auruskeviciene, Žilvinas Židonis, Dalius Misiunas, Justina Sidlauskiene and Nerijus Maciulis

Consumer Confusion About Product Names Commonly Used to Describe Hemp‐Based Oils

Brandon R. McFadden, Kawsheha Muraleetharan, Benjamin Campbell, Adam Rabinowitz, Tyler Mark and Michael Popp

Is Social Media the New Retirement Advisor? Assessing the Impact of Social Media Influence on Retirement Planning

Zefeng Bai, Shuxin Zheng and Jinglin Hu

Unraveling the Threads of Marketplace Diversity

Lena Cavusoglu and Melike Demirbag‐Kaplan

Volume 58, issue 4, 2024

In Memoriam: Monroe P. Friedman pp. 869-871

Robert Nathan Mayer

Consumer engagement with preventive health technologies: A double‐edged sword for consumer wellbeing pp. 872-904

Lisa Baiwir, Laurence Dessart and Cécile Delcourt

In tech we rely: How technology dependence fuels consumer vulnerability pp. 905-945

Kristin Stewart, Rebeca Perren, Charles Chambers and Ryley Zulauf

The role of financial literacy in reducing financial distress: What if consumers were perfectly financially literate? pp. 946-975

Piotr Białowolski, Andrzej Cwynar and Dorota Weziak‐Bialowolska

Against the odds: Unveiling the racial dynamics of financial resilience in post‐apartheid South Africa pp. 976-1007

Felix Essel‐Gaisey and Tsun‐Feng Chiang

“It's kinda like a sick joke”: Young people, labor market experiences, and the COVID‐19 pandemic pp. 1008-1033

Emily Shupp Parker, Michael Kloc, Terri Friedline and Trina Shanks

How information processing style and vaccine pace development messaging influence vaccine acceptance: A mixed methods exploration pp. 1034-1071

Amy Greiner Fehl, Stacey R. Finkelstein, Beatriz Pereira and Marta Caserotti

The effect size and nonlinearity of the relationship between cannabis consumption and consumer self‐perceived mental health: A study based on eight national surveys in Canada pp. 1072-1101

Qian Deng and Lun Li

The effect of hedonic and eudaimonic happiness in driving altruistic food choices pp. 1102-1125

Giovanna Piracci, Andrea Dominici and Fabio Boncinelli

How different religiosity facets affect materialism, hedonistic shopping values, and compulsive buying: Toward mediation‐moderation effects pp. 1126-1160

Piotr Tarka and Monika Kukar‐Kinney

Yes, we care! Consumer emotional responses to corporate neglect of climate change and the role of individual differences pp. 1161-1192

Richard P. Bagozzi, Isabella Soscia and Zakaria Babutsidze

Social traps and the wicked problem of single‐use plastics: A marketing, policy, and consumer‐citizen perspective pp. 1193-1211

Clifford J. Shultz, Marlys J. Mason, Amy Greiner Fehl, Stacey Menzel Baker, Karine Aoun Barakat, Sterling A. Bone and Meredith Rhoads Thomas

Volume 58, issue 2, 2024

A systematic conceptual review of financial access pp. 367-396

Julie Birkenmaier and Jin Huang

It's never too late to be financially literate: Evaluating a financial education intervention for adults in Italy pp. 397-431

Gabriele Iannotta, Marta Cannistrà and Tommaso Agasisti

Youth in individualistic countries have higher financial literacy: Evidence from PISA pp. 432-450

Kristjan Pulk and Leonore Riitsalu

Improving the effectiveness of financial education programs. A targeting approach pp. 451-485

Ginevra Buratti and Alessio D'Ignazio

Uncovering the digital payment divide: Understanding the importance of cash for groups at risk pp. 486-505

Carin Cruijsen and Jelmer Reijerink

Unbanked and impoverished? Exploring banking and poverty interactions over time pp. 506-537

John Creamer and Lewis Warren

Law and order? Associations between payday lending prohibition and alternative financial services use by degree of enforcement pp. 538-557

Melody Harvey, Cliff A. Robb and Christopher L. Peterson

The impact of payday alternative loans on credit union performance and loan quality pp. 558-586

Cullen Goenner

Losing privacy versus losing choice: How consumers react to different costs of personalization pp. 587-605

Nora Moran

When the bridge is not human: Algorithmic interference in forming social relationships through the manipulation of weak ties pp. 606-629

Patricia A. Norberg and Daniel R. Horne

Moral disengagement and neutralization techniques as explanations of unethical behavior pp. 630-662

Robyn McCormack and Rafi M. M. I. Chowdhury

Social institutions as enablers and inhibitors of environmental activism: A cross‐cultural perspective pp. 663-691

Colin B. Gabler and Meike Eilert

Financial stress among college students: New data about student loan debt, lack of emergency savings, social and personal resources pp. 692-709

Rachel Danahy, Cäzilia Loibl, Catherine P. Montalto and Dean Lillard

E. Thomas Garman in memoriam pp. 710-711

Brenda J. Cude