The Effects of Shopping Well-Being and Shopping Ill-Being on Consumer Life Satisfaction

Ahmet Ekici (), M. Joseph Sirgy (), Dong-Jin Lee (), Grace B. Yu () and Michael Bosnjak ()
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Ahmet Ekici: Bilkent University
M. Joseph Sirgy: Virginia Tech
Dong-Jin Lee: Yonsei University
Grace B. Yu: Duksung Women’s University
Michael Bosnjak: University of Mannheim

Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2018, vol. 13, issue 2, No 5, 333-353

Abstract: Abstract Individuals hold two distinct sets of beliefs about shopping activities: Positive beliefs regarding the degree to which shopping contributes to quality of life (shopping well-being), and negative beliefs related to the degree to which shopping activities result in overspending time, effort, and money (shopping ill-being). Shopping well-being and shopping ill-being are conceptualized as independent constructs in that shopping ill-being is not treated as negative polar of a single dimension. That is, one can experience both shopping well-being as well as shopping ill-being, simultaneously. We hypothesized that (1) shopping well-being is a positive predictor of life satisfaction, (2) shopping ill-being is a negative predictor of life satisfaction, and (3) shopping well-being does contribute to life satisfaction under conditions of low than high shopping ill-being. The study surveyed 1035 respondents in the UK. The study results supported hypotheses 1 and 3, not Hypothesis 2. The paper discusses the implications of these findings for retailers, macro-marketers, and policy makers.

Keywords: Shopping well-being; Shopping ill-being; Subjective well-being; Life satisfaction; Quality of life; Materialism; Compulsive shopping; Shopping engagement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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