Impacts of Social Class, Materialism, and Conspicuous Consumption on the Marriage Behavior of Married Women in the Middle Class

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association 1999;37(9):25-38.

계층 , 물질주의 , 과시소비성향에 따른 혼례행동에 관한 연구 - 결혼한지 5년 이내의 도시 중산층 이상의 기혼여성을 대상으로 -

김성숙¹, 서병숙²

중앙대학교 가정교육과¹, 한양대학교 가정관리학과²

Impacts of Social Class, Materialism, and Conspicuous Consumption on the Marriage Behavior of Married Women in the Middle Class

김성숙¹, 서병숙²

ABSTRACT

This study investigates impacts of social class, materialism, and conspicuous consumption orientation on the burden of the marriage expense and it’s affection to marriage life. The data were gathered in seoul and suburban area, from married women in the middle class. Through the analysis of data, we identified that according to the class vaiables(income and subjectively-perceived class) and the value orientation (materialism and conspicuous consumption orientation), the burden of marriage expense and it’s affection to marriage life were different. These results assured the korean marriage culure were strongly influnced by materialism, conspicuous need, and social class.