Though perceived financial well-being is viewed as an important topic of consumer
research, the literature contains no accepted definition of this construct. Further, there has …

This paper has two main goals. First, we provide a review of 34 studies on the relationship
between assets and children's educational attainment. Second, we discuss implications for …

This work aims to clarify the definition of financial well-being and make propositions for
building a theory of financial well-being by describing and reviewing its theoretical …

This chapter discusses how two behavior theories can be applied to financial behavior
research. The theory of planned behavior (TPB) is a motivational theory designed to predict …

This study was designed to determine whether the variables gender, age, marital status,
occupation, self-employment, income, race, and education could be used individually or in …

The purpose of this study was to examine associations between saving goals and saving
behavior from a perspective of Maslow's Hierarchy. Using 1998-2007 Surveys of Consumer …

Positive financial behaviours of consumers are examined using a national sample of
consumers who use credit counselling services in the US from a behavioural economic …

This research aims to analyse the super-ordinate goals motivating the decision to save and
to represent the hierarchical structure of the linkages between these goals. The participants …

Many US households have insufficient savings to cope with income losses, expenditure
shocks, and other financial emergencies, yet little research evidence explains why. Guided …

The purpose of this research is to explore saving motives and saving horizon using a large,
nationally representative dataset, the Survey of Consumer Finances. The framework is …