Four statements are used in this scale to measure how a person feels about money he/she has received. In the study by Raghubir and Srivastava (2009), the scale was used to measure how people felt about the compensation they received from a market research firm for participating in a study. The scale seems to be amenable for use in a wider variety of contexts such as how consumers feel about product rebates, tax refunds, and legal settlements.
This scale is composed of six, five-point Likert-type items that measure the degree to which a person is oriented toward possessing goods and money as a means of personal happiness and social progress.
Using four, seven-point Likert-type items, this scale measures a person's attitude about the financial consequences of customers returning products that have been used and/damaged. The implication is that it is improper to take products back if the use and/or damage to the products was the fault of the buyers, not the sellers but that people vary in the extent to which they believe the practice does significant financial damage to a business.
The scale is composed of three, seven-point Likert-type statements that measure the degree to which a person believes that he/she has the material things he/she wants and can afford to buy whatever else is desired. The scale was referred to as money-luxury by Thomson (2006).
Three, seven-point items are used to measure how much value a person places on a specified object or offer.
Three, seven-point statements are used to measure the value a person places on a service provided to him/her personally by a business that is above and beyond what is normally provided. The scale was referred to as reactions to marketing actions by Aggarwal (2004).
Five, nine-point statements are used to assess the value placed by a person on an attainment of social status as well as control over other people and resources.
The scale is intended to measure the extent to which a person believes that buying and owning things are important in his/her life. The original version of the scale has seven, five point Likert-type items. Alternative versions of the scale, varying in their length, have been developed and tested as well.
The scale has ten, five-point statements that are used to measure how a person reports being affected by various stressful events within his or her pre-adult life, particularly involving the respondent's family.
The scale is composed of three, five-point items measuring a person' expressed probability of contributing time, money, or other resources to a nonprofit organization.
