Access Type
Open Access Dissertation
Date of Award
January 2017
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Department
Management and Information Systems
First Advisor
Attila Yaprak
Abstract
The role of the individual in relation to a collective has been an influential research topic in various scientific fields, including psychology, sociology, marketing, and international business. Despite this popularity, scholars have not yet reached consensus regarding how (unidimensional, two-dimensional, or three-dimensional) or at what level (individual level or culture level) this relationship should be studied. Resting on this epistemological debate, the goal of this dissertation is to provide scholars and practitioners in the marketing and international business fields with a valid and reliable research instrument that will allow the study of this relationship in consumption settings. Specifically in this dissertation, we develop and cross-culturally validate a scale that measures consumer self-construals (idiocentric, relational, or allocentric) in consumption settings through four studies based on data collected from university students.
Recommended Citation
Koksal, Ahmet, "Consumer Self-Construals: Development And Validation Of The Csc Scale" (2017). Wayne State University Dissertations. 1824.
https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/1824