Overall, the results support a number of hypotheses regarding the relation of consumers' need for uniqueness to salient possession benefits, types of goods comprising consumers' valued possessions, and shopping behaviors associated with acquiring valued possessions.
And the rejection I've experienced has fostered the resilience that's one of my most valued possessions.
One year following initial responses to the trait measure, respondents participated in a second survey in which they photographed and rank ordered their valued possessions.
New Zealanders' most valued possessions were for environmental reasons, but they were no more likely to mention enjoyment reasons than Americans.
This research examines the long-term ability of the consumers' need for uniqueness measure to predict consumers' valued possessions, shopping behaviors, and experiences.
When Christian Marclay moved from New York to London, in the summer of 2007, he left behind some of his most valued possessions: hundreds of boxes of thrift-store junk.
A Winston Churchill painting, given by him in 1951 to President Harry S. Truman, who called it one of his "most valued possessions," is to be auctioned at Sotheby's in London on Dec. 13, The Associated Press reported.
In his will, Einstein left Miss Dukas his most valued possessions - his books and personal effects - and $20,000, the same amount he left his stepdaughter, who also got his household furniture.
In one run-down camp, living in a cramped room housing eight people, where clothes were hanged to the walls and valued possessions were stuffed under tiny bunk beds, was Hassan, a new arrival from Ghana.
Describing a late-19th-century Manhattan art auction, for example, she writes: "The Knickerbocker crowd clung to their remaining old associations, which kept the growing ranks of the arrivistes, with their bourgeois respectability, at a safe distance, but death and taxes necessitated a civilized process by which to dispose of valued possessions.
