1. Financial distress and money attitudes
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Adrian Furnham and Mark Fenton-O'Creevy
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Generosity ,Index (economics) ,Cognitive Neuroscience ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) ,Concurrent validity ,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ,Foreign direct investment ,Test validity ,Unit (housing) ,Behavioral Neuroscience ,Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology ,Well-being ,medicine ,Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) ,Anxiety ,Demographic economics ,medicine.symptom ,Psychology ,Applied Psychology ,media_common - Abstract
This study was concerned with the construction and validation of a Financial Distress Index (FDI). A stratified (UK) sample of 2000 adults completed the new measure as well as measures of financial anxiety, general stress and money attitudes. The FDI correlated highly with general stress and financial anxiety, establishing concurrent validity. For the FDI, men scored lower than women, there was an inverse association with age and FDI was lower for the highest income bands. A unit increase in seeing money as security was associated with a reduction in the FDI of 16%, whereas unit increases in money as generosity, freedom, or power and status were associated with an increase in the FDI of, respectively 21%, 24% and 19%. Implications and limitations are discussed. more...
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- 2021
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