The Journal of Consumer Affairs articles from December 2001

The Journal of Consumer Affairs archives from December 2001

Editor's Report Volume 35, Number 2.
December 22, 2001... This volume marks the end of my four years as Editor of The Journal of Consumer Affairs. There have been changes during that time. An important change has been the establishment of Associate Editors. The review process has been enhanced by...

Money Attitudes, Credit Card Use, and Compulsive Buying among American College Students.
December 22, 2001... The consumer culture has evolved into one of the most powerful forces shaping individuals and societies (Roberts and Sepulveda 1999 a, b). The desire to become a member of the consumer culture appears to be universal (Droge and Mackoy 1995)....

State Curriculum Mandates and Student Knowledge of Personal Finance.
December 22, 2001... This study analyzes the relationship between high school students' scores on a test of personal financial literacy and their state's personal finance curriculum mandate. At the time of the testing, twenty of the thirty-one states included in...

Relationship between Tobacco Advertising and Youth Smoking: Assessing the Effectiveness of a School-Based, Antismoking Intervention Program.
December 22, 2001... A significant consumer issue today concerns tobacco advertising and youth smoking behavior and what is being done in the interest of these young consumers to reduce smoking. Since the Master Settlement Agreement earmarked resources for consumer...

Comprehension of Warnings and Resulting Attitudes.
December 22, 2001... This study demonstrates that education level and warning vocabulary affect consumer reactions to warnings. Consumers who did not complete high school were not able to comprehend warnings that contained difficult vocabulary as well as warnings...

A Reconsideration of Rent-to-Own.
December 22, 2001... Rent-to-own agreements (RTO) are traditionally seen as disguised installment contracts imposed on uninformed consumers at usurious interest rates. After the flaws and omissions in these interest rate calculations arc addressed, the implied...

Attitude toward Risk and Risk-Taking Behavior of Business-Owning Families.
December 22, 2001... Using data from the 1995 Survey or Consumer Finances, this study round that family business owners are more risk tolerant than nonowners. Among family business owners, age, race, net worth, and the number or employees in the business affect...

An Investigation of Decision-Making Styles of Consumers in China.(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 2001... This study investigates Chinese consumers' decision-making styles. The Consumer Style Inventory (CSI) is administered to 387 adult consumers in China. Both an exploratory factor analysis and a confirmatory factor analysis are adopted to...

Food Label Use, Self-Selectivity, and Diet Quality.(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 2001... Food labels provide measurable benefits by improving diet quality of Americans by as much as four to six points on a 100-point Healthy Eating Index scale. Among nutritional panels, serving sizes, nutrient content claims, list of ingredients,...

Giving Incentives of Adult Children Who Care for Disabled Parents.(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 2001... Do altruism and bequest incentives motivate adult children to care for disabled parents? Using an economic framework, this study examines these caregiving incentives. Data from the 1992 Health and Retirement Study indicate that motives to...

Ethics of Consumption: The Good Life, Justice and Global Stewardship.
December 22, 2001... Cracker, David A. and Toby Linden, eds. 1998. Ethics of Consumption: The Good Life, Justice and Global Stewardship, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 585 pp., $80 ($25.95 paper). Consumption is a hot topic in many fields right now, from...

An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America.
December 22, 2001... Cross, Gary. 2000. An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America, New York: Columbia University Press, 256 pp., $27.50. The battle between consumerism and anticonsumerism in America is not a recent phenomenon. Throughout...

Work and Family--Allies or Enemies? What Happens when Business Professionals Confront Life Choices. (Book Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Friedman, Stewart D. and Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, 2000. Work and Family--Allies or Enemies? What Happens when Business Professionals Confront Life Choices, New York: Oxford University Press, 271 pp., $30. This book was written to help readers...

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal.
December 22, 2001... Schlosser, Eric. 2001. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 356 pp., $25. The American food system has undergone monumental changes in the past five decades. It has become a system organized to...

Errata.(Correction Notice)
December 22, 2001... Listed below are corrections to equations found in the article, "Willingness to Pay for Information: An Analyst's Guide," by Kyung Hee Lee and Charles B. Hatcher, published in the previous issue (Volume 35, Number 1) of The Journal of Consumer...