"Shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist."
The name retail therapy is ironic and semi facetious, acknowledging that shopping hardly qualifies as true therapy in the medical or psychotherapeutic sense. It was first used in the 1980s, with the first reference being this sentence in the Chicago Tribune of Christmas Eve 1986: "We've become a nation measuring out our lives in shopping bags and nursing our psychic ills through retail therapy."
The dark side of materialism as a tonic is that shopping bags aren't a great replacement for friendships. Loneliness can make us materialistic. Feeling isolated makes us anxious, which makes us less likely to get up the energy to make and maintain connections that would make us feel less alone. So, in the …show more content…
Lonely, I think we all get. But what are we talking about when we talk about materialists? Economists have suggested there are actually three flavors of materialism: "acquisition centrality, possession-defined success, and acquisition as the source of happiness." These are horrible terms.
- Materialism A ("acquisition centrality") is your classic shopaholic. These materialists like shopping for the experience. They like owning nice stuff, because, hey, it's nice stuff. They are comforted by the aura of …show more content…
Effect on Youth
As a negative effect on human psychology of shopping malls, results of impulsive Shopping are worth looking into, since they have a great impact on economy. Consumers hit by this impact -economic collapse- find themselves in debt, or at least left without any savings for the future, which is exactly the case of the 21st century’s individuals: The younger generation of customers, referring the ones under 32, end up broke at the end of the month.
(Peterson, n.d., para. 2). Fueled by the shopping malls and combined with the careless spending habits of the youth, one would not expect a different result.
The economic collapse that is referred to is not because people buy what they need. Exactly the opposite: People buy what they do not actually need. The university students of today have their rooms stuffed with luxurious electronics and furnishings, and also eat at elegant restaurants (Mchome, 2010, para. 1). The problem here is that consumers are not satisfied with the minimum, they always want more and more, and the minute after that you can track their footsteps back to the nearest shopping
The name retail therapy is ironic and semi facetious, acknowledging that shopping hardly qualifies as true therapy in the medical or psychotherapeutic sense. It was first used in the 1980s, with the first reference being this sentence in the Chicago Tribune of Christmas Eve 1986: "We've become a nation measuring out our lives in shopping bags and nursing our psychic ills through retail therapy."
The dark side of materialism as a tonic is that shopping bags aren't a great replacement for friendships. Loneliness can make us materialistic. Feeling isolated makes us anxious, which makes us less likely to get up the energy to make and maintain connections that would make us feel less alone. So, in the …show more content…
Lonely, I think we all get. But what are we talking about when we talk about materialists? Economists have suggested there are actually three flavors of materialism: "acquisition centrality, possession-defined success, and acquisition as the source of happiness." These are horrible terms.
- Materialism A ("acquisition centrality") is your classic shopaholic. These materialists like shopping for the experience. They like owning nice stuff, because, hey, it's nice stuff. They are comforted by the aura of …show more content…
Effect on Youth
As a negative effect on human psychology of shopping malls, results of impulsive Shopping are worth looking into, since they have a great impact on economy. Consumers hit by this impact -economic collapse- find themselves in debt, or at least left without any savings for the future, which is exactly the case of the 21st century’s individuals: The younger generation of customers, referring the ones under 32, end up broke at the end of the month.
(Peterson, n.d., para. 2). Fueled by the shopping malls and combined with the careless spending habits of the youth, one would not expect a different result.
The economic collapse that is referred to is not because people buy what they need. Exactly the opposite: People buy what they do not actually need. The university students of today have their rooms stuffed with luxurious electronics and furnishings, and also eat at elegant restaurants (Mchome, 2010, para. 1). The problem here is that consumers are not satisfied with the minimum, they always want more and more, and the minute after that you can track their footsteps back to the nearest shopping