Three Tests of Affluenza: TV Viewing and Materialism

The researcher conducts secondary analyses of three polls now available from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. These polls add to the cross-cultural body of research connecting hours of television viewing and symptoms of “affluenza,” materialism and the accompanying financial dissatisfaction and distress. The three polls are: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive 8th and 10th grade surveys 2008, a 1994 Survey of Men Employed in Civilian Occupations, and a 1999 survey of Family Life in Urban China.