Consumption and Well-Being in the Material World

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Tatzel, Miriam (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Business.; Management science.; Marketing.; Medical research.; Quality of life.; Positive psychology.; Positive Psychology.; Business and Management, general.; Quality of Life Research.

This volume addresses how we can find happiness and well-being in the material world. It builds on previous works that find that materialism is associated with lowered well-being (materialists are less happy) and that consumerism, in all its profusion, is harmful to environmental well-being. How can...