Consumerist Behaviour Research Articles

Penggunaan Kartu ATM Terhadap Konsumtivisme Mahasiswa Program Studi Pendidikan Ekonomi, Universitas Flores

The aim of this research is to determine the effect of using ATM cards on the consumerist behavior of students in the Economic Education study program. The type of research used is explanatory which is used to identify why a phenomenon occurs and how variables influence each other, namely the use of ATM cards influences student consumptive behavior. The data collection technique uses documentation studies and questionnaires, the analysis tool uses simple regression analysis. The results show that the use of ATM cards has a significant effect on the consumerist behavior of economic education students with a percentage of 83%. The conclusion is that ATM cards do make it easier for students to carry out financial transactions, but on the other hand they can also encourage consumer behavior. The solution that can be given to reduce this is by providing education about financial literacy.

Pengaruh Financial Technology dan Manajemen Keuangan Terhadap Perilaku Konsumtif Mahasiswa

This research aims to determine the influence of financial technology and financial management on student consumption behaviour. The population in this study was 168 students from the Economic Education Study Program at Jambi University Class of 2019-2020 and 118 people were sampled using proportionate stratified random sampling. This research is quantitative research with an ex post facto method. Data collection techniques use Google Forms. Data were analyzed using multiple regression statistical techniques. Based on the analysis, it shows that the financial technology variabel has a positive and significant effect on consumer behaviour. The more students use financial technology in financial transactions, the more consumptive their behaviour will be. Financial management variabels have a positive and significant effect on consumer behaviour. The better students manage their finances, the more consumptive their behaviour becomes. Simultaneously, financial technology and financial management have a positive and significant effect on student consumption behaviour. The higher level of use of financial technology accompanied by good financial management results in increasingly consumerist behaviour among students. The resulting regression model statistically has a very high ability to predict the influence of the use of financial technology and financial management on student consumptive behavior because it is supported by an R-square value of 96.8%. Based on the results of these findings, it is based on students' preferences in meeting their daily needs by making financial plans that suit their needs and consistently allocating them through wise use of financial technology so as not to behave consumptively.

Preparing for the future: Enhancing financial literacy for elementary school students

Shopping is a normal behavior for meeting needs. However, when spending activities lead to consumptive behavior, it can have a negative impact on one's financial management. Based on observations, many parents of students at SDI Sutojayan have expressed concerns about their children's consumerist behavior. This community service aims to enhance children's financial literacy, covering financial sources and money management. The program is implemented in several stages, including the creation of educational teaching aids, financial literacy counseling, and evaluation. The program's results indicate an improvement in children's understanding of money appreciation, as they become aware of the money's origins. The use of educational teaching aids has enhanced their comprehension of how to manage money, whether it's for shopping, charitable activities, or saving.

Hubungan self control dengan perilaku konsumtif belanja online pada mahasiswa rantau

Abstract. Technological advances have brought changes in various aspects of life, including shopping. Various online shopping sites appear and make it easier for someone to make a purchase If migrate students do online shopping, if it is not accompanied by good self-control, it can give rise to consumerist behavior. If online shopping activities carried out by overseas students are not balanced with good self-control, it will lead to consumptive behavior. The purpose of this study was to find out whether there is a correlation between self-control and consumptive behavior in online shopping among overseas students. This study used a correlational quantitative approach with 358 respondents as subjects. Sampling was carried out using a purposive sampling technique with the criteria are overseas students who are studying outside the city, aged 18-24 years, and routinely shop online at least once a month. The instruments used in this research are the self-control scale and the consumptive behavior scale. Data analysis in this study used Spearman’s rank correlation. The results showed that there was a negative relationship between self-control and online shopping consumptive behavior among overseas students because p=-0,521 and p=0,000 < 0,05 was obtained. This shows that the higher the self-control of overseas students, the lower the consumptive behavior and otherwise. Keyword: Consumptive behavior, overseas student, self control

The Effect of Hedonism and Ease of Use of e-Commerce Feature on Excessive Consumerist Behaviour

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of hedonism and the ease of use of the Shopee-PayLater feature on consumptive behaviour/excessive consumerist behaviour. Respondents in this study were residents of a housing complex in Bekasi. A sample of 97 people was taken, using the Bernoulli formula. This research used simple descriptive regression analysis and multiple linear regression analysis. The SmartPLS 3.0 application and measurements are used for this purpose. The results of the study indicate that hedonism has a positive and significant effect on excessive consumerist behaviour. The ease of use also has a positive and significant effect on the excessive consumerist behaviour of the community members. People are not really aware of what usury means, so most people do online shopping with a credit system with interest such as shopping now pay later/SPaylater. An understanding of the legal practice of buying and selling in Islam is required. It is the obligation of the scholars to provide more teaching so that the public clearly understands that anything added to the repayment of the loan is forbidden. Islam is a guide for life in this world and in the hereafter

Design and development of an automatic dry waste segregator for household and institutional wastes

The rise in urban waste generation in India comes from the consumerist behaviour and the ever-increasing population density in the cities. A vast majority of this collected waste is dumped into landfills. The rural situation is somewhat akin except for the amount of waste generated is less and the traditionally informal method for waste recovery and reuse have been implemented for a long time. So, to scale down the perplexity and minimize the human effort, an enticing idea of a cost-effective ‘Automatic waste segregator’ has been conceptualized for segregation of waste. The automatic waste segregator is designed to be installed in housing colonies and organisations like schools and facilitates efficient sorting of dry wastes into three separate categories namely: ferromagnetic metals, paper and plastic. A shredder is used to mince the lump to the required size while a magnetic drum is implemented for removing ferromagnetic metals from the pile. A plastic and paper separating unit is designed and developed based on the thermal principle. Various explicit dynamics investigations have been carried out by means of a finite element tool to analyse the total deformation of components and transient thermal analysis in order to understand the temperature variation. The prototype segregates household and institutional wastes with an average overall efficiency of 86.78% and 91.82% respectively.

Technoscientific control of nature: The ultimate paradox.

The current interlinked environmental and socioeconomic global crises constitute the gravest threat to humanity's well-being, indeed survival, today. Studies of the historical roots and contemporary manifestations of the various elements of these crises-including accelerating environmental degradation, unfettered capitalist technoscientific/industrial expansion, overpopulation, and overconsumption-are plentiful. Also well-known is the influence of Francis Bacon's writings, particularly The Advancement of Learning (1605), Novum Organon (1620), and the utopian New Atlantis (1627), on the development of empiricism and the modern scientific method as well as the reform and organization of scientific research. Bacon's significance for the founding of the Royal Society of London (1660) and for the plan and structure of the Encyclopedie (1751-1772), coupled with his oft-cited aphoristic injunctions to study nature to control/dominate it, are staples in the lore and justification of technoscience. I argue that the enduring appeal of so-called Baconianism derives, in part, from a fundamental misappropriation of certain of Bacon's original ideas. Specifically, the complex ethical and religious framework within which Bacon situated his vision of scientific and technological development was discarded (or ignored) so that, by the early decades of the 18th century, Baconianism had come to be understood almost exclusively for its utilitarian role in society. This deracinated version became the familiar trope of technoscience's unlimited potential to transform nature (including human nature and behavior) in the service of an ideology of industrial/consumerist expansion since then. Linkage between the history of science/technology and addictive consumerism, apparent by the close of the 19th century, has been insufficiently examined. Such addictive consumerist behavior and continued virtually unregulated industrialization and production, were effectively removed from ethical scrutiny and a high degree of material acquisition and personal/societal rapaciousness became the norm rather than the exception in most countries. I suggest that further historical deconstruction of this denuded Baconianism will yield important insights in the search for viable solutions to the present global socioenvironmental crises.

Z kartos vertybinis portretas – vartotojiškos visuomenės atspindys

Šiame straipsnyje dėmesys skiriamas Z kartos jaunuoliams ir jų vertybinių orientacijų ypatumams. Pirmoje straipsnio dalyje analizuojama vartotojiškos visuomenės esmė, akcentuojant tokias jos sudedamąsias dalis kaip vertybės ir vertybinės orientacijos, vartotojiškumas, asmens tapatumas. Antroje straipsnio dalyje pristatomi 2016 m. atlikto tyrimo rezultatai. Šiandien esame vartotojai vartotojiškoje visuomenėje. Ypatingas vaidmuo vartotojiškoje kultūroje tenka Z kartai (gimusiems po 1995 metų). Atlikti tyrimai rodo, kad šiems jaunuoliams šiandien būdinga dezorientacija, apatiškumas, blaškymasis tarp priimtinų ir kitų jiems primestų vertybių, o vartojimas tampa vienu iš svarbiausių individualaus gyvenimo stiliaus pagrindų. Pasak britų sociologo A. Giddenso, vartotojiškos visuomenės nariai vertina individualizmą, bet jie taip pat vertina priklausymą tam tikrai grupei – siekia būti panašūs į kitus. Vartotojiška visuomenė turi savitą kultūrą, kuri teikia naujų potyrių ir malonumų. Mūsų tyrimas atskleidė, kad nors Z kartai būdingi vartotojiškos visuomenės bruožai, ji yra nevienalytė. Jaunimo gyvenimiškai pozicijai daugiausia įtakos turi vertybiniai prioritetai, sukauptų kapitalų bagažas. Ne visi, pasak lenkų sociologo Z. Baumano, turi išteklių, kad būtų tie, kurie renkasi, t. y. ne visi gali būti vartotojai.

Revitalizing Traditional Chinese Concepts in the Modern Ecological Civilization Debate

The subject of this paper is the question of China’s contribution to the establishment of an association of ecological civilizations—as seen from the perspective of a European—given the growing economic, political, and ecological influence that China has in the world today. The question is which values are likely to guide Chinese development. Can concepts like “sustainability”, “environmental carefulness”, and “common concerns of humankind” easily be integrated as topics on the Chinese agenda? Or are they likely to be expelled due to some basic values and ideas in traditional (or modern) Chinese worldviews? The paper discusses a number of modern interpretations that have argued that some basic concepts in the Chinese tradition are not only congenial with, but even provide fruitful additions to the modern debate about the establishment of cooperative ecological civilizations. In the final part the strong modern influence of both Marxist conceptions and consumerist behaviour is considered.

The Island of Alternatives: Power, Medical Science, and "Gentle Birthing" in Socialist Czechoslovakia.

Beginning in the early 1980s, medical experts and birthing women increasingly voiced criticism of what had long been the technocratic, depersonalized nature of obstetric treatment in Czechoslovakia, despite the limited opportunities for them to do so publicly. A few maternity hospitals responded to the complaints by introducing radically different regimens of care. This article examines the history of one reformist project that took place in the small town of Ostrov nad Ohří. Ostrov means "island" in Czech and, during the last decade of Communist rule in Czechoslovakia, the Ostrov hospital became an island of alternative obstetric care, embracing Leboyer's method of "gentle birthing," acupuncture, fathers in delivery rooms, and assorted technological innovations that aimed to spark fundamental change in familial and social relationships, and humanize childbirth. While many medical professionals decried these reforms as nonsensical and dangerous, a number of parents-to-be flocked to Ostrov to give birth, circumventing the official rules mandating that they receive healthcare in their area of residence. This proactive consumerist behavior among expectant parents, in tandem with the call of some physicians for more attention to individual and family needs, despite the opposing official political discourse, is evidence of a grassroots movement for market-oriented principles in healthcare that reflected broader societal change during the last decade of the Communist regime.

Sufficiency Economy Philosophy: A Holistic Approach to Economic Development and Mainstream Economic Thought

<p>The theories of mainstream economics have been criticised for triggering periodic crises and fluctuations, as well as causing resource depletion and environmental degradation. Also, they are accused of worsening the problems of poverty and income distribution, while ignoring the well-being of people and social issues. The Sufficiency Economy Philosophy, bestowed by His Majesty, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, for Thai people in 1997 as a tool to cope with economic adversity, is an alternative way of viewing development. The essence of the Philosophy is that people should act with due consideration, and in moderation. The Philosophy emphasizes moral behaviour by people and society, which mainstream economic thought lacks. Incorporating such human behaviours as moderation and morality into economic decision making is sensible and yields different outcomes from the typical economic framework. Moderation serves as a tool to filter out greed and consumerist behaviour. Morality leads an individual to consider the consequence of his/her actions to others and to society. Together with the reasonableness concept implying non-excessive risk taking behaviour, under the Philosophy an economy will have reduced economic fluctuations, less likelihood of an economic crisis, and sustained quality growth. The Sufficiency Economy Philosophy will make its mark in the economic development arena as an alternative thought system that works for the people and the economy.</p>

Les circuits de la dépense dans le Contre Diogiton de Lysias

The Circuits of Expense in Lysias’ Against Diogeiton. In this paper, we analyze Lysias’ Against Diogeiton by focusing on the representations of money and its spending at the end of the 5th century BC, at the crossroads of old conceptions of family solidarity and new individualistic, consumerist behavior. Lysias’ shaping of plausible narration of facts teaches us much about what was acceptable or not in matter of legacy and orphan’s supervision. We see at the same time how a woman, as the daughter of a dishonest guardian and the mother of the young victims, gains the right of talking in her own name, even if it is to defend traditional values.

Pubertal Development, Spare Time Activities, and Adolescent Delinquency: Testing the Contextual Amplification Hypothesis

Extensive evidence supports associations between early pubertal timing and adolescent externalizing behavior, but how and under which conditions they are linked is not fully understood. In addition, pubertal development is also characterized by variations in the relative speed at which individuals mature, but studies linking pubertal 'tempo' and outcomes are scarce. This study examined the mediating and moderating roles of spare time activities in associations between pubertal development and later delinquency, using data from a large (4,327 girls, 4,250 boys) longitudinal UK cohort (Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children). Self-reports of Tanner stage were available from ages 9 to 14, spare time activities at age 12 and delinquency at age 15. Pubertal development was examined using latent growth models. Spare time activities were categorized using factor analyses, yielding four types (hanging out at home, hanging out outside, consumerist behavior, and sports/games), which were examined as mediators and moderators. Earlier and faster maturation predicted delinquency in boys and girls. Spare time activities partially mediated these links such that early maturing girls more often engaged in hanging out outside, which placed them at greater risk for delinquency. In addition, compared to their later and slower maturing counterparts, boys who matured earlier and faster were less likely to engage in sports/games, a spare time activity type that is linked to lower delinquency risk. No moderation effects were found. The findings extend previous research on outcomes of early maturation and show how spare time activities act as proxies between pubertal development and delinquency.

Consumismo na pós-modernidade: uma questão de gênero?

This paper addresses a discussion on excessive consumption in postmodernity and its effects on female subjectivity. From a theoretical perspective guided by the social sciences and gender studies, consumerist behavior and its pathological bias are seen primarily as symptomatic products of sociocultural transformations, which impact the emotional lives of women.Key words: consumption, compulsion, gender, society.

Bright stars in the urban galaxy – the efficiency of ethnic entrepreneurs in the urban economy

An issue of continuous debate over recent decades has been the impact of migration on the development of both destination and origin countries of migrants. Migration is a form of optimal allocation of production factors in both sending and receiving countries. In the sending countries some positive effects could be the economic growth attributed to the remittances and to the return migrants, who are regarded as engines of change and innovation. On the other hand, migration could be a cause of increasing disparities in origin and host countries. Some negative effects in the origin countries could be the amplification of consumerist, nonproductive and remittance-dependent behavior. The goal of this paper is to assess the importance of migration in the currently globalizing world, with special attention being paid to the entrepreneurial behavior and performance of immigrants. In line with the main purpose of this paper, we provide some theoretical insight into the impact of ethnic diversity on the economic performance of receiving and origin countries, this being further narrowed down to the entrepreneurial behavior of the migrants. The empirical part consists of a migrant impact analysis of ethnic entrepreneurs, and presents the results of a cross-correlation and Data Envelopment Analysis.

Spectre of the Past, Vision of the Future – Ritual, Reflexivity and the Hope for Renewal in Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s Climate Change Communication Film "Home"

Spectre of the Past, Vision of the Future – Ritual, Reflexivity and the Hope for Renewal in Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s Climate Change Communication Film "Home"

Patients as healthcare consumers in the public and private sectors: a qualitative study of acupuncture in the UK

BackgroundThe aim of this study was to compare patients' experiences of public and private sector healthcare, using acupuncture as an example. In the UK, acupuncture is popular with patients, is recommended in official guidelines for low back pain, and is available in both the private sector and the public sector (NHS). Consumerism was used as a theoretical framework to explore patients' experiences.MethodsSemi-structured face-to-face interviews were conducted in 2007-8 with a purposive sample of 27 patients who had recently used acupuncture for painful conditions in the private sector and/or in the NHS. Inductive thematic analysis was used to develop themes that summarised the bulk of the data and provided insights into consumerism in NHS- and private practice-based acupuncture.ResultsFive main themes were identified: value for money and willingness to pay; free and fair access; individualised holistic care: feeling cared for; consequences of choice: empowerment and vulnerability; and "just added extras": physical environment. Patients who had received acupuncture in the private sector constructed detailed accounts of the benefits of private care. Patients who had not received acupuncture in the private sector expected minimal differences from NHS care, and those differences were seen as not integral to treatment. The private sector facilitated consumerist behaviour to a greater extent than did the NHS, but private consumers appeared to base their decisions on unreliable and incomplete information.ConclusionsPatients used and experienced acupuncture differently in the NHS compared to the private sector. Eight different faces of consumerist behaviour were identified, but six were dominant: consumer as chooser, consumer as pragmatist, consumer as patient, consumer as earnest explorer, consumer as victim, and consumer as citizen. The decision to use acupuncture in either the private sector or the NHS was rarely well-informed: NHS and private patients both had misconceptions about acupuncture in the other sector. Future research should evaluate whether the differences we identified in patients' experiences across private and public healthcare are common, whether they translate into significant differences in clinical outcomes, and whether similar faces of consumerism characterise patients' experiences of other interventions in the private and public sectors.

Pharmacists and their customers: a personal or anonymous service?

AbstractAimsTo explore the existence and nature of the pharmacist-customer relationship.MethodsA qualitative approach was adopted. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 customers recruited from two pharmacies differing in type and location: Pharmacy A, a multiple chain pharmacy in a more affluent area, and pharmacy B, a small chain pharmacy.Key findingsCustomers' views differed according to the pharmacy from which they were recruited. Pharmacy B customers had a personal relationship with the pharmacist and used the pharmacy as a health care resource, while pharmacy A customers did not have a personal relationship with the pharmacist and used the pharmacy simply for medicine supply. Several pharmacy A customers had their own different local pharmacist whom they used for more personal advice and counselling. Both groups described disadvantages of multiple chain pharmacies. Consumerist behaviour was identified among customers whereby they preferred to control the provision of advice, assess it and act upon it. However, lack of information was mentioned by several interviewees, which suggested that different types of customers have different needs from the pharmacy. The pharmacist has therefore to recognise these different needs and to meet them accordingly to provide services, whether anonymous or personal, within their “extended role.” While most customers viewed pharmacists as drug experts and considered managing minor ailments to be part of their job, they were less supportive of a more extended role in the therapeutic monitoring of drug therapy. This presents a serious barrier to pharmacists wishing to extend their role into a more patient-oriented and clinical domain.ConclusionThis study reinforces the importance of considering customers' views when policies and strategies concerning the development of the “extended role” are considered. Recognising customers' views helps the profession to adapt and respond to changing consumer behaviour. Issues identified through this in-depth exploration of public perceptions of pharmacists have implications for the extension of pharmacists' roles into areas favoured and appreciated by customers.

消費主義者は選挙に行ったか？

The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between consumerism and political citizenship by analyzing social survey data. Consumerism has been considered to be at odds with citizenship. But now consumerism seems to be becoming more diverse and some consumerist behavior has social relevance. Therefore, the relationship between consumerism and political citizenship is assumed to be diverse depending on consumerist attitudes. First of all, we reveal by factor analysis of consumerist-attitudinal scale three salient factors named “conspicuous,” “paranoiac,” and “quality-oriented.” Next, employing logistic regression analysis, we estimate the effect of those factors on the political citizenship variables. In conclusion, it is postulated that “conspicuous” weakens political citizenship and “paranoiac,” and “quality-oriented” enhance it as a rule.

Social Insecurity and the No-Avail Thesis: Insights from Philosophy and Economic History on Consumerist Behavior

Chrisoula Andreou argues that the predominant factor in the exalted and worldly views of human thriving involves a psychological measure of relative deprivation or advantage in relation to social competitors. This is the ‘no avail’ thesis: promoting self-sacrifice for the sake of conservation, in-and-of-itself, will remain ineffective as environmental policy. However, Andreou sets aside, to some extent, the applicability of philosophical discourse on happiness and human thriving, which is where this commentary is directed. Specifically, Aristotle's insights on social prestige (exousia) being attained through philanthropy is discussed as a counter-narrative to present day materialist culture. For Aristotle, the Hellenic mentality was not to be of exclusionary competition but rather strengthening the community through competitive social power aimed at mutually enriching philia. This model provides a provocative case-study for insight on redirecting competitive human nature toward other ends. Additional supporting analysis is also provided on the emergence of the modern market economy using the works of economic historian Karl Polanyi.