This three item, seven-point Likert-type scale measures the degree to which a person has a feeling of owning an object without actually having possession of it. While it might be possible to use the scale when people do have some legitimate legal claim to an object, it was not developed for that purpose but instead was meant for occasions when people do not possess an object but feel as if they do.
The scale is composed of eight, six-point Likert-type items that are intended to measure a consumer lifestyle trait characterized by the tendency to be both restrained in acquiring products as well as resourceful in using them.
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 terms are used to measure how much pride-related emotion a person feels with respect to a specified object.
The degree to which a person desires to maintain control over one's possessions is measured using a nine-item, five-point, Likert-type scale. A four-item version of the scale was used by O'Guinn and Faber (1989).
Three semantic differentials are used to measure a person's evaluation of his/her identity-related actions. One version of the scale has to do with possessions, what a person thinks about the products used in the performance of a role. The other version has to do with performance itself, what a person thinks about how well a role is played.
Three semantic differentials are used to measure a person's opinion of how well the people with whom the person interacts view him/her with regard to a certain identity. The opinion can be based on real or imagined feedback. One version of the scale has to do with possessions, what people are thought to say about the products used in the performance of a role. The other version has to do with performance itself, what people are thought to say about how well a role is played.
A seven-item, five-point Likert-type scale is used to measure the degree to which a person likes to share his/her possessions. The scoring of the items was done in such a way in several of the studies so as to measure "nongenerosity." Five-item versions of the scale were used by O'Guinn and Faber (1989) as well as Arnold and Reynolds (2003). See also Richins (2004).
An eight-item, five-point Likert-type scale is used to measure the degree to which a person desires another person's possessions and resents others with the desired possessions. A shorter version of the scale was used by O'Guinn and Faber (1989; Faber and O'Guinn 1992). See also Richins (2004).
The scale uses three, seven-point statements to measure the degree to which a person pays relatively more attention to a particular possession than to other possessions. The investment of time and thought in the object "layers' more meaning on it and makes it even more important to the owner. The scale was called psychic energy by Grayson and Shulman (2000).
