ABSTRACT
Daily existence is more interconnected to consumer behaviors than ever before, encompassing many issues of well-being. Problems include unhealthy eating; credit card mismanagement; alcohol, tobacco, pornography, and gambling abuse; marketplace discrimination; and ecological deterioration; as well as at-risk groups who are impoverished, impaired, or elderly. Opportunities for well-being via consumer behaviors include empowerment via the Internet, product sharing, leisure pursuits, family consumption, and pro-environmental activities, among others.
In 2005 the Association for Consumer Research launched Transformative Consumer Research (TCR). Its mission is to foster research on quality of life that is both rigorous and applied for better assisting consumers, their caregivers, policy administrators, and executives.
This edited volume includes 33 chapters on a wide range of topics by expert international authors. All royalties from sales of this book are donated to the Association to support TCR grants.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|106 pages
Declaring and Projecting Transformative Consumer Research
chapter 2|41 pages
Foundational Research on Consumer Welfare
part II|83 pages
Economic and Social Issues
chapter 5|21 pages
Conducting Transformative Consumer Research
chapter 6|20 pages
Transformative Consumer Research in Developing Economies
chapter 8|19 pages
Discrimination and Injustice in the Marketplace
part III|56 pages
Technological Edges
part IV|54 pages
Materialism and the Environment
chapter 12|18 pages
What Welfare?
chapter 13|15 pages
Sustainable Consumption and Production
chapter 14|18 pages
From Profligacy to Sustainability: Can We Get There From Here?
part V|110 pages
Enhancing Health
chapter 15|30 pages
Tackling the Childhood Obesity Epidemic
chapter 16|19 pages
Processing and Acting on Nutrition Labeling on Food
part VI|54 pages
Consumer Finances
chapter 21|20 pages
Employee Retirement Savings
part VII|117 pages
Other Risky Behaviors and At-Risk Consumers
chapter 22|18 pages
A Model of Self-Regulation
chapter 26|21 pages
Toward a Process Theory of Consumer Vulnerability and Resilience
part VIII|40 pages
Family Matters
chapter 29|24 pages
Family Time in Consumer Culture
part IX|58 pages
Enriching Behaviors and Virtues