The Reflexive Relationship between Consumer Behavior and Adaptive Coping
研究了在乳腺癌诊断背景下，长期面临死亡威胁的个体如何通过消费行为与应对策略相互影响，消费既能引发功能性应对，也能促进前瞻性思考。
This article explores the reflexive nature of coping and consumer behavior in people who live for months or years with a heightened sense that they may die sometime in the near future. These themes were explored in the context of a diagnosis of breast cancer. The analysis shows that consumption plays a reflexive role in coping with this crisis and the uncertainty it brings. Various coping behaviors lead to consumption, but consumption can also lead to functional coping and act as a catalyst for forward thinking.