08/03/2020
In one of my recently published paper based on Indian samples, it is observed that
•Individuals' interpretation of the world (i.e., self-construal) influences their consumption decisions including status consumption.
The findings indicated that independent self-construal directly enhances intention for status consumption but interdependent self-construal enhances it via social comparison.
Social comparison drives intention for status consumption among interdependent self-construal people at low materialistic levels but not at high materialistic levels.
The link of the paper is as follows: