{"title":"The effect size and nonlinearity of the relationship between cannabis consumption and consumer self‐perceived mental health: A study based on eight national surveys in Canada","authors":"Qian Deng, Lun Li","doi":"10.1111/joca.12602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joca.12602","url":null,"abstract":"Previous research suggests a negative association between cannabis consumption and consumer mental health, but the magnitude and linearity of this association require further investigation. Therefore, this study analyzed eight suitable national survey datasets from Statistics Canada from 2009 to 2021. In the general population, the mean effect size between cannabis use (yes/no) and self‐perceived mental health is negative but very small in magnitude ( = −0.096). Moreover, in the cannabis user sub‐population, the mean effect size between cannabis usage frequency and mental health is small in magnitude ( = −0.157). More importantly, among cannabis users, a nonlinear negative relationship between cannabis use frequency and mental health was identified. Specifically, as cannabis use becomes more frequent and people's self‐perceived mental health worsens, the association becomes stronger. These findings have significant implications for social marketing and health promotion.","PeriodicalId":47976,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Consumer Affairs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142198323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Memoriam: Monroe P. Friedman","authors":"Robert Nathan Mayer","doi":"10.1111/joca.12599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joca.12599","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47976,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Consumer Affairs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142198325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amy Greiner Fehl, Stacey R. Finkelstein, Beatriz Pereira, Marta Caserotti
{"title":"How information processing style and vaccine pace development messaging influence vaccine acceptance: A mixed methods exploration","authors":"Amy Greiner Fehl, Stacey R. Finkelstein, Beatriz Pereira, Marta Caserotti","doi":"10.1111/joca.12601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joca.12601","url":null,"abstract":"Vaccine hesitancy is increasing and messaging highlighting the speed of vaccine development may prompt vaccine hesitancy for those concerned about safety and efficacy of new vaccines. We employ a mixed methods approach to address a gap in the literature regarding how consumers process information about the pace of vaccine development. In an experiment, we manipulated message content about pace of development for the COVID‐19 vaccine and measured need for cognition. In a qualitative study, participants answered parallel questions to the experiment and additional open‐ended questions. We find that vaccine hesitant individuals are more willing to accept a vaccine when information matches their processing style. Further, individuals may process messages affectively or cognitively, even when the material presented is factual and scientific, and engage in high or low elaboration. We recommend that practitioners discuss the safety and effectiveness of new treatments in an interactive fashion, in order to better match the message to the recipient's processing preferences.","PeriodicalId":47976,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Consumer Affairs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142198324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How different religiosity facets affect materialism, hedonistic shopping values, and compulsive buying: Toward mediation‐moderation effects","authors":"Piotr Tarka, Monika Kukar‐Kinney","doi":"10.1111/joca.12600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joca.12600","url":null,"abstract":"This study offers interdisciplinary theoretical discussion connecting consumer behavior, values, self‐regulation, self‐determination, and religiosity concepts, and develops a conceptual model of the effects of consumer religiosity on compulsive buying. Complex sequential mediational mechanisms are investigated, involving the effects of unique religiosity facets on compulsive buying through materialistic values and hedonistic shopping values. Results show that intrinsic religiosity is negatively related with materialistic and hedonistic shopping values and compulsive buying, while the social extrinsic religiosity and personal extrinsic religiosity are positively related with these consumer values and the resulting compulsive buying. Compared with prior research, this study examines the three religiosity facets separately. This work also identifies the moderating role of gender, with all facets of religiosity exhibiting stronger relationships for women as compared with men. Theoretical and practical implications for consumers, policy makers, and marketers focus on the importance of maintenance of intrinsic religiosity orientation in personal life.","PeriodicalId":47976,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Consumer Affairs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142225234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Job loss during COVID-19 on early retirement withdrawals: A moderated-mediation analysis","authors":"Haotian Zheng, Stephen Roll, Mathieu Despard","doi":"10.1111/joca.12598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joca.12598","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study explores the impact of COVID-19-related job loss on early retirement withdrawals, highlighting the roles of financial hardships, subjective well-being, financial knowledge, and emergency savings. Drawing from 2929 respondents, the research identified that job loss increases early withdrawals, both directly and through financial hardships and well-being perceptions. Notably, individuals with greater financial knowledge and at least 3 months of emergency savings experience less negative impact from job loss. Our findings emphasize the vital role of employers in offering workplace financial education and promoting emergency savings. This aligns with the SECURE 2.0 Act's strategies and underlines the significance of financial readiness in buffering against the economic fallout of unexpected events like the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":47976,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Consumer Affairs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142174265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stephen Roll, Yung Chun, Mathieu Despard, Sam Bufe, Olga Kondratjeva
{"title":"Prevention, resolution, or counseling: Testing three approaches to reducing debt payment delinquencies in a large-scale field experiment","authors":"Stephen Roll, Yung Chun, Mathieu Despard, Sam Bufe, Olga Kondratjeva","doi":"10.1111/joca.12597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joca.12597","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this study, we partnered with a large credit union to conduct a 10-arm field experiment aimed at reducing delinquent payments on installment debts. This experiment tested common behavioral interventions such as payment reminders against more novel approaches such as magnet reminders and savings accounts that automated emergency savings. It also tested the impact of offering financial counseling services. Our findings indicate that the email reminders—which emphasized resolving current delinquencies in some treatments and preventing future delinquencies in others—were effective at reducing moderate and severe payment delinquency rates. Other, more intensive treatments, which required participants to enroll in a new account or financial counseling, likely did not have an impact due to low takeup rates. We also find limited evidence that certain interventions were more effective for individuals with higher credit risk.</p>","PeriodicalId":47976,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Consumer Affairs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142174176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Influence of information on pesticide use during fruit and vegetable cultivation through labeling at the point of purchase: Insights from a French study","authors":"Olivier Droulers, Sophie Lacoste-Badie","doi":"10.1111/joca.12596","DOIUrl":"10.1111/joca.12596","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Scientific evidence has been building up about the potentially negative effects of pesticides on human health. Fruit and vegetables have a higher percentage of samples with pesticide residues exceeding tolerance levels than any other food item. However, no regulations exist that require point-of-purchase labeling to inform consumers of the use of pesticides during cultivation. Based on a nationally representative sample of the French population, this study examined the impact of labeling designed to provide information about pesticide use during fruit and vegetable cultivation at the point of purchase. The results suggest that information on pesticides has a strong impact on consumers' purchase intention and product choice, and that a large majority of participants support the proposal to display mandatory information about pesticide use through labeling at the point of purchase. We conclude with a discussion of the public policy implications of our findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":47976,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Consumer Affairs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joca.12596","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141928897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Madhu Viswanathan, Saravana Jaikumar, Arun Sreekumar, Shantanu Dutta, Adam Duhachek
{"title":"Addressing difficulties with abstract thinking for low-literate, low-income consumers through marketplace literacy: A bottom-up approach to consumer and marketing education","authors":"Madhu Viswanathan, Saravana Jaikumar, Arun Sreekumar, Shantanu Dutta, Adam Duhachek","doi":"10.1111/joca.12595","DOIUrl":"10.1111/joca.12595","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We examine a bottom-up approach to consumer and marketing education for subsistence consumers, that is, those with low income and relatively lower literacy levels. They face a variety of cognitive and other constraints, with difficulty in abstract thinking being a central issue that is critical for effective decision-making. We study the impact of marketplace literacy education, with its unique bottom-up approach, on abstract thinking in the consumer domain. We test the effectiveness of a bottom-up educational approach, which covers concrete examples before abstract concepts, compared to the reverse sequence of a top-down approach. We find that the bottom-up approach in marketplace literacy education leads to more abstract thinking in the consumer domain compared to a top-down approach. We discuss the implications of this research for consumer affairs.</p>","PeriodicalId":47976,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Consumer Affairs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joca.12595","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141611418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How violence among consumers alters the expected benefits of participation in a consumer collective","authors":"Laurence Dessart, Bernard Cova, Native Davignon","doi":"10.1111/joca.12594","DOIUrl":"10.1111/joca.12594","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In a consumer society, collective consumption is key to maintaining sociality. However, violence among consumers not only thwarts the benefits of participating in consumer collectives, but also reduces sociality and causes various types of harm. In this study, we investigate the League of Legends gaming community to examine interconsumer violence targeting female gamers and how the mistreatment they experience alters the benefits they derive from being part of the collective. Our exploratory study, based on consumer interviews and auto-ethnographic findings, contributes to the literature on consumer collectives, consumer culture, and gender marketing. Specifically, our data highlight three categories of benefits altered by interconsumer violence—utilitarian, social, and symbolic—each composed of related subcategories. We explain how these benefits are altered by interconsumer violence. We also offer practical recommendations for consumers, community managers, and policymakers to address this phenomenon.</p>","PeriodicalId":47976,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Consumer Affairs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sowing seeds: The impact of financial socialization on the financial understanding of young children and preschoolers","authors":"Mary Fletcher, Robert Wright","doi":"10.1111/joca.12593","DOIUrl":"10.1111/joca.12593","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper is concerned with the relationship between financial socialization and financial understanding among young children. Measures of financial understanding, appropriate for 4–6 year olds, are developed. Regression analysis is used to relate these measures statistically to a set of financial socialization variables and control variables related to the child, their parents, and their household. Data collected in the nationally representative child and parent <i>2016 UK Children and Young People's Financial Capability Survey</i> are used. A key empirical finding is that financial understanding is about 10% higher for children whose parents regularly discuss with their children how they spend their money. The analysis suggests that around 20% of parents do not discuss financial matters with their children. It is likely that variation in early-life financial socialization is important in explaining variation in later-life financial understanding. Further research is needed to establish if this relationship is causal.</p>","PeriodicalId":47976,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Consumer Affairs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joca.12593","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}