Reflective and Impulsive Processes Underlying Saving Behavior an the Additional Roles of Self-Control and Habit
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Mullan, Barbara Ann
Monds, Lauren
Orbell, Sheina
Hamilton, Kyra
Rebar, Amanda L
Hagger, Martin S
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Using a dual-process framework, the aim of this research was to investigate the associations between reflective and impulsive processes and saving behavior. Self-control and saving habit were tested as additional factors that potentially moderate the relationship between constructs representing reflective and impulsive processes and behavior, or exert indirect effects on behavior through these systems. A community sample of 594 participants completed measures of saving intention, buying impulsiveness, trait self-control, saving automaticity, and propensity to save money. A well-fitting variance-based structural equation model, goodness-of-fit index = 0.338, average path coefficient = .119, p < .001, accounted for statistically significant amounts of variance in the key dependent variables: intention to save, R² = .364, buying impulsiveness, R² = .232, and saving behavior, R² = .173. Self-control and saving habit were indirectly related to saving behavior through intention, and buying impulsiveness was directly related to behavior when saving habits were low. Findings indicate strong saving habits may help to protect against impulsive spending and offer several targets for interventions aimed at improving saving behavior. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE PSYCHOLOGY AND ECONOMICS
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11
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© 2018 JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE PSYCHOLOGY AND ECONOMICS. This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record. Reproduced here in accordance with publisher policy. Please refer to the journal link for access to the definitive, published version.
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Neurosciences
Applied economics
Psychology