The 3M model of motivation and personality : theory and empirical applications to consumer behavior /

Integrating control theory, evolutionary psychology, and a hierarchical approach to personality, this book presents a new approach to motivation, personality, and consumer behavior. Called the 3M, which stands for `Meta-theoretic Model of Motivation', this theory seeks to account for how person...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mowen, John C.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2000]
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Table of Contents:
  • The 3M, a meta-theoretic model of motivation and personality
  • Theoretical development of the 3M
  • Developing the measures of the eight elemental traits
  • Task orientation
  • The need for learning
  • Competitiveness
  • The need for activity
  • The need for play
  • General self-efficacy and the discriminant validity of the six compound traits
  • From health motivation to healthy diet lifestyle
  • From impulsiveness to compulsive consumption
  • From value consciousness to bargaining proneness
  • From sports interest to sports participation
  • From frugality to modest living
  • What is an extrovert? : they are more than they seem!
  • From chick-flicks to guy-flicks to sci-fi junkies : traits of movie hounds
  • The 3M and developing marketing communications : an empirical study
  • Hard questions and tentative answers about the 3M.