Issue Information

• Published date: 01 December 2021
• Date: 01 December 2021
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/joca.12430

The Journal of Consumer Affairs Winter 2021 Volume 55, Number 4

THE JOURNAL OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS

Winter 2021, Volume 55, Number 4

CONTENTS

Commentary

Consumer wellbeing in Asia: Introduction to the special issue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1205

Jing Jian Xiao, Eunju Ko, and May O. Lwin

Special Issue Articles

Vanity and food waste: Empirical evidence from China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1211

Li Gao, Yingdan Mei, Xiaohan Yang, Congyu Zhao, and Daimeng Li

Economic hardship and neighborhood diversity: Influences on consumer well-being. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1226

Chan-Hoong Leong, Soo Jiuan Tan, Elizabeth A. Minton, and Siok Kuan Tambyah

The Price of Hope—Insights into rhino horn consumption in health-related contexts in Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1249

Hieu P. Nguyen, Hanh T. M. Nguyen, and Huyen T. Pham

Understanding digital consumers’ well-being in Asia: The moderating roles of digital natives and

privacy concerns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1274

Youshin Kwak, Jeeyeon Kim, Yeolib Kim, and Jeonghye Choi

Impact of environmental and health consciousness on ecological consumption intention: The moderating

effects of haze and self-competence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1292

Zhang Hao and Qi Chenyue

Chinese Millenials’ happiness and materialism: Explanations from two life-course theories, self-esteem,

and money-attitudes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1306

Helen Inseng Duh, Hong Yu, and Yuefeng Ni

Recipients’ happiness in prosocial spending: The role of social ties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1333

Wuke Zhang, Jing Pan, Jiaoyang Liu, Yuchen Zhang, and Mingliang Chen

Social media use and subjective well-being among middle-aged consumers in Korea: Mediation model

of social capital moderated by disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1352

Hyesun Hwang and Su-Jung Nam

The influence of time, resource, and gender ideology on the division of domestic work in Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1373

Soomin Ryu and Jinhee Kim

Who has a cushion? The interactive effect of social exclusion and gender on fixed savings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1398

Lu Yang, Yuhuang Zheng, and Rui Chen

Are Indian professional women financially literate and prepared for retirement? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1416

H. Kent Baker, Sweta Tomar, Satish Kumar, and Deepak Verma

Financial capability and investment management of Chinese households: An application of hybrid item

response theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1442

Tsun-Feng Chiang

Financial literacy and household asset allocation: Evidence from micro-data in China. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1464

Xiaomeng Lu, Jingna Xiao, and Yu Wu

Household savings and subjective wellbeing: Evidence from China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1489

Fuzhong Chen, Guohai Jiang, and Mengyi Gu

Examining gender differences in predictors of financial satisfaction: Evidence from Taiwan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1505

Derek T. Tharp and Elizabeth J. Parks-Stamm

House price expectations, mortgages, and subjective well-being in urban China. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1540

Zhifang Su, Jr-Tsung Huang, and Arthur Jin Lin

Soft landings: Extending the cushion hypothesis to financial well-being in collectivistic cultures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1563

Dee Warmath, Pan-Ju Chen, John Grable, and Eun Jin Kwak

Borrowing channels, purposes, and household investment and consumption: evidence from Nepal. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1591

Olga Kondratjeva

The effects of online consumer credit on household consumption level and structure: Evidence from China . . . . . 1614

Jie Li, Quanyun Song, Yu Wu, and Bihong Huang

Research Articles

Supermarket competence in emergent markets: Conceptualization, measurement, effects, and

policy implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1633

Klaus G. Grunert, Yanfeng Zhou, Marija Banovic, and Natascha Loebnitz

When taking action means accepting responsibility: Omission bias predicts parents’ reluctance to vaccinate

due to greater anticipated culpability for negative side effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1660

Gary D. Sherman, Beth Vallen, Stacey R. Finkelstein, Paul M. Connell, Wendy Attaya Boland, and

Kristen Feemster

Practical Application

Physical risk messaging enhances favorable attitudes toward mask wearing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1682

Marie A. Yeh, Ann M. Mirabito, and Stacey R. Finkelstein

Research Article

Consumer marketplaces and self-sufficiency: Meeting consumption needs in community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1691

Stephen G. Saunders, Srinivas Sridharan, Dani J. Barrington, Regina Souter, Katherine F. Shields,

Semisi Meo, and Jamie K. Bartram

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