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Consumption Behavior (consumption + behavior)

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Selected Abstracts

Prospective Follow-Up of Empirically Derived Alcohol Dependence Subtypes in Wave 2 of the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC): Recovery Status, Alcohol Use Disorders and Diagnostic Criteria, Alcohol Consumption Behavior, Health Status, and Treatment Seeking

ALCOHOLISM, Issue 6 2010
Howard B. Moss
Background:, We have previously reported on an empirical classification of Alcohol Dependence (AD) individuals into subtypes using nationally representative general population data from the 2001 to 2002 Wave 1 of the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC) and latent class analysis. Our results suggested a typology of 5 separate clusters based upon age of onset of AD, multigenerational familial AD, rates of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), endorsement of specific AD and Alcohol Abuse (AA) criteria, and the presence of comorbid mood, anxiety, and substance use disorders (SUD). In this report, we focus on the clinical follow-up of these cluster members in Wave 2 of the NESARC (2004 to 2005). Methods:, The mean interval between NESARC Wave 1 and NESARC Wave 2 interviews was 36.6 (SD = 2.6) months. For these analyses, we utilized a Wave 2 NESARC sample that was comprised of a total of 1,172 individuals who were initially ascertained as having past-year AD at NESARC Wave 1 and initially subtyped into one of 5 groupings using latent class analysis. We identified these subtypes as: (i) Young Adult, characterized by very early age of onset, minimal family history, and low rates of psychiatric and SUD comorbidity; (ii) Functional, characterized by older age of onset, higher psychosocial functioning, minimal family history, and low rates of psychiatric and SUD comorbidity; (iii) Intermediate Familial, characterized by older age of onset, significant familial AD, and elevated comorbid rates of mood disorders SUD; (iv) Young Antisocial, characterized by early age of onset and elevated rates of ASPD, significant familial AD, and elevated rates of comorbid mood disorders and SUD; (v) Chronic Severe, characterized by later onset, elevated rates of ASPD, significant familial AD, and elevated rates of comorbid mood disorders and SUD. In this report, we examine Wave 2 recovery status, health status, alcohol consumption behavior, and treatment episodes based upon these subtypes. Results:, Significantly fewer of the Young Adult and Functional subtypes continued to meet full DSM-IV AD criteria in Wave 2 than did the Intermediate Familial, the Young Antisocial, and the Chronic Severe subtypes. However, we did not find that treatment seeking for alcohol problems increased over Wave 1 reports. In Wave 2, Young Antisocial and Chronic Severe subtypes had highest rates of past-year treatment seeking. In terms of health status, the Intermediate Familial, the Young Antisocial, and the Chronic Severe subtypes had significantly worse mental health scores than the Young Adult and Functional subtypes. For physical health status, the Functional, Intermediate Familial, Young Antisocial, and the Chronic Severe subtypes had significantly worse scores than the Young Adult subtype. In terms of alcohol consumption behavior, the Young Adult, Functional, and Young Antisocial subtypes significantly reduced their risk drinking days between Wave 1 and Wave 2, whereas the Intermediate Familial and the Chronic Severe subtypes did not. Discussion:, The results suggest that the empirical AD typology predicts differential clinical outcomes 3 years later. Persistence of full AD, treatment seeking, and worse mental health status were associated most strongly with those subtypes manifesting the greatest degree of psychiatric comorbidity. Reductions in alcohol consumption behavior and good physical health status were seen among the 2 younger subtypes. Overall, the least prevalent subtype, the Chronic Severe, showed the greatest stability in the manifestations of AD, despite having the highest rate of treatment seeking. [source]

An assessment of consumer preference for fair trade coffee in Toronto and Vancouver

AGRIBUSINESS : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, Issue 2 2010
John Cranfield
In this article, the authors use conjoint analysis to elicit the views of coffee consumers on the attributes of Fair Trade coffee using data from the Greater Toronto Area and Vancouver collected through face-to-face interviews with consumers. The impact of socioeconomic and demographic factors on respondents' acceptance of Fair Trade coffee is evaluated using cluster analysis and multinomial logit models. The results suggest that, regardless of location, consumers place a strong premium on price and labeling claims. Three consumer segments are identified in each city; in Toronto, these segments are labeled Fair Trade-Focused, Price Conscious, and Balanced Buyers; for Vancouver these segments are labeled Organic and Fair Trade-Focused, Price Conscious, and Balanced Buyers. Although a broad spectrum of variables influences segment membership, no single variable explains membership in the same segment in each city. Such a result is rather telling; it suggests deeper constructs underlie segment membership, and presumably consumption behavior with respect to Fair Trade coffee. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source]

Analyses of consumers' dietary behavior: An application of the AIDS model to supermarket scanner data

AGRIBUSINESS : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, Issue 2 2003
Eugene Jones
Nationwide food consumption surveys often find no difference in the diets of lower and higher income Americans, while studies of particular food commodities find major differences. These contrasting results represent a consumption paradox. We attempt to gain an understanding of this paradox by using supermarket scanner data to examine food purchases and, by extension, consumption patterns for consumers in two, geographically distinct, income areas. These areas are part of the larger Columbus, OH, metropolitan area (CMA) and six stores are selected for purchase and consumption analyses,three from the lowest income areas of the CMA and three from the highest income areas. Seven product categories are analyzed in this study and these categories are subdivided into meaningful nutritional classes. An Almost Ideal Demand System is employed and the empirical results reveal major differences in consumption behavior for the two groups. [EconLit citations: D120 and D190.] © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Agribusiness 19: 203,221, 2003. [source]

Prospective Follow-Up of Empirically Derived Alcohol Dependence Subtypes in Wave 2 of the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC): Recovery Status, Alcohol Use Disorders and Diagnostic Criteria, Alcohol Consumption Behavior, Health Status, and Treatment Seeking

Improved Design of Shearing Sections with New Calculation Models Based on 3D Finite-Element Simulations

MACROMOLECULAR MATERIALS & ENGINEERING, Issue 11 2002
Helmut Potente
Abstract New models for the Maddock and spiral shearing sections have been developed, employing three-dimensional finite element analysis (3D FEA). These models describe the pressure-throughput and power consumption behavior of the shearing sections for both the extrusion and the injection molding process and have been implemented in the REX 6.0 and PSI 4.0 simulation software. As a consequence it is now possible to describe the process behavior of these shearing sections within just a few seconds with the accuracy of FEA calculations. Actual Maddock shearing section (left) and actual spiral shearing section (right). [source]

Value-based segmentation of luxury consumption behavior

PSYCHOLOGY & MARKETING, Issue 7 2009
Prof. Dr. Klaus-Peter Wiedmann
Following a broader perspective in exploring customer perceptions of and motives for purchasing luxury brands, it is not sufficient to explain the whole picture of luxury consumption in terms of socially oriented consumer motives and the desire to impress others. The main contribution here is to explore a multidimensional framework of luxury value as a general basis for identifying value-based consumer segments. The empirical results can be seen as a first step toward a better understanding of consumers' luxury value perceptions as based on social, individual, functional, and financial aspects. ©2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source]

Housing Wealth, Financial Wealth and Consumption in China

CHINA AND WORLD ECONOMY, Issue 3 2009
Jie Chen
E21; E32 Abstract The paper investigates the relationship between changes in asset wealth and the trend movements of household consumption in urban China. Using the vector error correction cointegration model, we demonstrate that there is a unique long-run cointegrating relationship between household consumption, disposable income, financial wealth and housing wealth in urban China. We find that housing wealth is the only factor that restores the long-run equilibrium relationship when the cointegrated system is disturbed by an external shock. In addition, our permanent,transitory variance decomposition analysis indicates that nearly all variance in the movement of consumption is permanent, supporting the classical random walk hypothesis of consumption behavior. However, a large proportion of variance in the short-run movements of housing wealth is found to be transitory. [source]

The Problem of Media Habits

COMMUNICATION THEORY, Issue 2 2010
Robert LaRose
To what extent is repeated media consumption behavior a matter of habit rather than continuing and active self-instruction? The physiological and cognitive origins of habits are examined in the context of current research in neurology and social psychology. The result is a reconceptualization of media habits along a continuum from consciously enacted behaviors to those that are activated automatically by external stimuli. Communication research perspectives of the role of habits in media consumption are critically reviewed. From this analysis, habits emerge as automatic thought processes that are powerful predictors of media behavior and a model of habitual media consumption is proposed. Le problème des habitudes médiatiques Robert LaRose Dans quelle mesure la répétition d'un comportement de consommation médiatique est-elle une affaire d'habitude plutôt qu'un choix continu et actif? Les origines physiologiques et cognitives des habitudes sont étudiées dans le contexte de la recherche actuelle en neurologie et en psychologie sociale. Il en résulte une reconceptualisation des habitudes médiatiques selon un continuum allant des comportements conscients à ceux qui sont automatiquement activés par des stimulus extérieurs. Les perspectives de la recherche en communication sur le rôle des habitudes dans la consommation médiatique sont passées en revue d'un ,il critique. De cette analyse, les habitudes émergent comme étant des processus de pensée automatiques qui sont de forts prédicteurs des comportements médiatiques. Un modèle de la consommation médiatique habituelle est proposé. Das Problem von Mediengewohnheiten Robert LaRose Inwiefern ist ein wiederholtes Medienkonsumverhalten eine Frage der Gewohnheit und nicht der ständigen aktiven Selbstkonstruktion? Im Kontext aktueller Forschung in der Neurologie und Sozialpsychologie werden die physiologischen und kognitiven Ursprünge von Gewohnheiten betrachtet. Das Ergebnis ist eine Neukonzeptualisierung von Mediengewohnheiten entlang eines Kontinuums von bewusst ausgeführten Verhaltensweisen hin zu jenen Verhaltensweisen, die automatisch von externalen Stimuli aktiviert werden. Die Perspektive der Kommunikationsforschung zur Rolle von Gewohnheiten bei der Mediennutzung wird kritisch untersucht. Basierend auf dieser Analyse entstehen Gewohnheiten als automatische Gedankenprozesse, die wiederum starke Prädiktoren für Medienverhalten sind. Ein Modell der habitualisierten Mediennutzung wird vorgeschlagen. El Problema de los Hábitos de los Medios Robert LaRose Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA Resumen ¿Hasta qué punto el comportamiento repetitivo de consumo de los medios es un asunto de hábito en vez de auto instrucción continúa y activa? Los orígenes psicológicos y cognitivos de los hábitos son examinados en el contexto de la investigación corriente en neurología y psicología social. El resultado es una reconceptualización de los hábitos de los medios a través de un continuo entre los comportamientos conscientemente representados y aquellos que son automáticamente activados por estímulos externos. Las perspectivas de la investigación en comunicación sobre el rol de los hábitos de consumo de los medios son revisados críticamente. De este análisis, los hábitos emergen como procesos de pensamiento automático los cuales son vaticinadores poderosos del comportamiento de los medios y un modelo de consumo habitual de los medios es propuesto. [source]

Compulsive Consumption Tendencies Among Television Shoppers

FAMILY & CONSUMER SCIENCES RESEARCH JOURNAL, Issue 4 2000
Seung-Hee Lee
Compulsive buying and binge eating are consumption behaviors that are similarly related to low self-esteem and poor impulse control, occurring more frequently in women. Using a national random sample, the authors examined the extent to which compulsive buying and binge eating were related in a nonclinical population of known television shoppers. Mailed questionnaires were completed by 334 women. Multiple regression analyses revealed that (a) binge-eating and compulsive-buying scores were positively related, and (b) both compulsive-buying and bingeeating scores were positively related to television shopping channel exposure. About 10% of the television shoppers in this study were found to have compulsive-buying tendencies. Strategies for coping with unwise compulsive consumption are offered. [source]

Characterizing and Reaching High-Risk Drinkers Using Audience Segmentation

ALCOHOLISM, Issue 8 2009
Howard B. Moss
Background:, Market or audience segmentation is widely used in social marketing efforts to help planners identify segments of a population to target for tailored program interventions. Market-based segments are typically defined by behaviors, attitudes, knowledge, opinions, or lifestyles. They are more helpful to health communication and marketing planning than epidemiologically defined groups because market-based segments are similar in respect to how they behave or might react to marketing and communication efforts. However, market segmentation has rarely been used in alcohol research. As an illustration of its utility, we employed commercial data that describes the sociodemographic characteristics of high-risk drinkers as an audience segment, including where they tend to live, lifestyles, interests, consumer behaviors, alcohol consumption behaviors, other health-related behaviors, and cultural values. Such information can be extremely valuable in targeting and planning public health campaigns, targeted mailings, prevention interventions, and research efforts. Methods:, We described the results of a segmentation analysis of those individuals who self-reported to consume 5 or more drinks per drinking episode at least twice in the last 30 days. The study used the proprietary PRIZMÔ (Claritas, Inc., San Diego, CA) audience segmentation database merged with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) database. The top 10 of the 66 PRIZMÔ audience segments for this risky drinking pattern are described. For five of these segments we provided additional in-depth details about consumer behavior and the estimates of the market areas where these risky drinkers resided. Results:, The top 10 audience segments (PRIZM clusters) most likely to engage in high-risk drinking are described. The cluster with the highest concentration of binge-drinking behavior is referred to as the "Cyber Millenials." This cluster is characterized as "the nation's tech-savvy singles and couples living in fashionable neighborhoods on the urban fringe." Almost 65% of Cyber Millenials households are found in the Pacific and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. Additional consumer behaviors of the Cyber Millenials and other segments are also described. Conclusions:, Audience segmentation can assist in identifying and describing target audience segments, as well as identifying places where segments congregate on- or offline. This information can be helpful for recruiting subjects for alcohol prevention research as well as planning health promotion campaigns. Through commercial data about high-risk drinkers as "consumers," planners can develop interventions that have heightened salience in terms of opportunities, perceptions, and motivations, and have better media channel identification. [source]

The investigation of Chinese consumer values, consumption values, life satisfaction, and consumption behaviors

PSYCHOLOGY & MARKETING, Issue 7 2009
Ge Xiao
The primary objective of this study was to investigate how the changing value systems of modern Chinese consumers affect their consumption behaviors and life satisfaction through the mediating variables of consumption values. The results of the multivariate data analysis show that three out of four types of consumer values (i.e., functional, emotional, and social) were positively related to foreign brand purchasing. Among all accepted relationships, the one between collectivism and functional value was the highest, whereas the collectivism and epistemic value relationship was the lowest. Individualism and collectivism were both found to be positively related to foreign brand purchasing and life satisfaction. Compared to collectivists, individualists were less satisfied with their current lives, but they held a more favorable attitude toward foreign brands. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source]