... meeting a new person, information about experiential purchases was considered to be more insightful ( d =1.13[1.04,1.22]), useful ( d =1.14[1.05,1.23]), and fun to talk about ( d =1.96[1.83,2.08]) than material purchases. Self-concept was more strongly associated with experiential purchases than...

...Lillian Smyth; Kasia Banas; Kenneth I. Mavor The structure of the self and its relationship with wellbeing are of interest to researchers in many areas of psychology, including social, clinical and differential. Psychologists seeking to calculate the self-concept structure indices associated...

... effects into account. The present preregistered study used a large German sample of students ( N = 6,086 students in 559 classes) in Grade 5 (mean age = 10.55 years, SD = 0.64) with data from the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS). We tested the effects of academic self-concept and competence in math...

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