This scale measures how much a consumer actively limits the number of things they own and avoids accumulating excess possessions. It is one of three dimensions in Wilson and Bellezza's (2022) consumer minimalism instrument, alongside sparse aesthetics and mindfully curated consumption, developed through qualitative work followed by a series of quantitative studies.
7-point Likert (1=strongly disagree, 4=neither agree nor disagree, 7=strongly agree)
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Alphas were .87 (Study 2) and .89 (Study 3) (Wilson and Bellezza 2022, p. 805); the scale was used in other studies without reported alphas. Test-retest correlations in Study 5 (p. 808) were .83 over one week (163 Columbia Business School graduate students) and .82 over seven weeks (245 Prolific participants). Evidence supported unidimensionality and content, discriminant, known-groups, and predictive validity; AVEs were .63 (Study 2) and .66 (Study 3). Directions: 'Please indicate your agreement with each of the following statements about yourself.'
Wilson, Anne V. and Silvia Bellezza (2022), "Consumer Minimalism," Journal of Consumer Research, 48 (5), 796-816.
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