Connection Between Subjective Economic Welfare and Styles of Decision-making on Purchase: the Role of Perceived Economic Instability

Student: Zuev Konstantin

Educational Programme: Psychology (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 7

Year of Graduation: 2016

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the connections between the decision-making styles and the subjective economic welfare of people who perceive the instability in economy. The main question of the work was whether perceived instability is affecting the consumer's subjective welfare, predicting his economic behavior. Using the adapted Sprouls' Decision Styles Inventory and the Hashenko's Subjective Economy Welfare Inventory, as well as the created scale of the perceived instability on 125 Moscow state citizens, we tried to answer this question.

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