Too materialistic to get married and have children?

• Main Authors: LI, Norman P., LIM, Amy J. Y., TSAI, Ming-Hong, O, Jiaqing
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Children; Singapore; marriage; fertility; Applied Behavior Analysis; Asian Studies; Family, Life Course, and Society; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1676; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2933/viewcontent/Too_Materialist.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We developed new materials to induce a luxury mindset and activate materialistic values, and examined materialism’s relationship to attitudes toward marriage and having children in Singapore. Path analyses indicated that materialistic values led to more negative attitudes toward marriage, which led...