@article{article_459889, title={IMPACT OF MATERIALISM ON CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR}, journal={Journal of International Management Educational and Economics Perspectives}, volume={6}, pages={80–99}, year={2018}, author={Ali, İmran}, keywords={consumer,Materialism}, abstract={<span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;">The concept of consumer
behavior has become of prime importance. A lot of scholars have raised their
questions regarding the study of the materialism, its concepts, its measures
and its implications. The term materialism has a much diversified
understanding, where it can be discussed as a well social cultural phenomenon;
it can also be a phenomenon which is very personal and individualistic. In this
research concept of consumer materialism is studied. The concept of materialism
which is used in this research is of Belk (1984).  In order to gauge the Potential relationships
and clearer understanding planned behavior. The study aims by using primary
data is to examine the consumer need for uniqueness, consumer socialization,
perceived behavioral control and Materialism on the consumer’s intentions and
consumption behavior. Therefore, a survey, which is based on apparel purchase,
is conducted with 507 respondents. In order to test the proposed model,
confirmatory factor analysis is applied. The result of the research explains
the adopted model and also shows the effect of materialism on the consumption
behavior. The model helped the test the influence of materialism on the
consumer intention and consumption behavior regarding the apparels. </span>}, number={3}, publisher={Ahmet GÜVEN}