DETERMINANTS OF SIMPLICITY BEHAVIOR: EFFECTS ON SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION AND LIFE SATISFACTION

ÖZGÜL E.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ECONOMICS AND ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES, cilt.7, ss.42-79, 2017 (ESCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 7
  • Basım Tarihi: 2017
  • Dergi Adı: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ECONOMICS AND ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.42-79
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Voluntary Simplicity, Sustainable Consumption, Materialism, Life Satisfaction, ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR, SELECT PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS, SELF-DETERMINATION THEORY, VOLUNTARY SIMPLICITY, SOCIETAL CONSEQUENCES, MATERIALISM, SIMPLIFIERS, CONSUMER, ORIENTATION, STYLES
  • Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Sustainable consumption gains popularity in recent years that mainly purposes monitoring production activities in terms of environmental and natural resources and prevention or minimizing overconsumption patterns based on materialistic culture. In the study, sustainable consumption and voluntary simplicity behavior of American consumers were analyzed and proposed a structural equation model which describes antecedents of the sustainable behaviors and its effects on life satisfaction.