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Clothing Interest, Self‐Actualization, and Demographic Variables
Author(s) -
Perry Marcia O'Reilly,
Schutz Howard G.,
Rucker Margaret H.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
home economics research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1552-3934
pISSN - 0046-7774
DOI - 10.1177/1077727x8301100309
Subject(s) - clothing , psychology , recall , test (biology) , regression analysis , perception , correlation , linear regression , measure (data warehouse) , social psychology , statistics , cognitive psychology , mathematics , computer science , geography , data mining , paleontology , geometry , archaeology , neuroscience , biology
The purpose of this research was to determine the relationship between two measures of clothing interest and selected independent variables consisting of 1. self‐actualization and 2. demographic characteristics of age, education, income, and occupation. Ninety randomly selected women provided demographic data and completed a battery of three tests: the Consumer Self‐Actualization Test (a measure of the degree of self‐actualization), the Perceptual Recall Measure of Clothing Interest (an instrument developed by the investigator to assess clothing interest based on the number of clothing items recalled from slide stimuli), and the Creekmore Clothing Interest Subscale (from the Creekmore Scales of Eight Clothing Variables). A significant negative correlation was found between clothing interest, as measured by the Creekmore instrument, and self‐actualization; and a significant positive correlation was found between Perceptual Recall Measure scores and the occupation “student.” Multiple regression analyses indicated that prediction of clothing interest was not improved by using a linear additive combination of the independent variables. The low negative correlation between Creekmore Subscale and Perceptual Recall Measure scores suggested that different types of clothing interest are assessed by each instrument.