ХҮМҮҮСИЙН МӨНГӨНД ХАНДАХ ХАНДЛАГИЙН ЯЛГААГ СУДАЛСАН НЬ

Abstract

Abstract: The study presents the attitude towards money among adult people. The research was focused on differences of the attitude towards money related to age and gender in adult people. The aim of this study was to examine the differentiation of the attitude towards money of adult people related to materialism and their age, gender. The data were collected using the followed 3 tools: (1) Money attitude scale, MAS (by K. T. Yamauchi and D.I. Templer., 1982),

(2) SDM scale (by M.Gornik-Durose, 2002) and (3) questionnaire of socio-demographic.

The research sample consisted of adult people: a group of 300 people. The age of participants varied from 21 to 60 years old. The results showed that the attitude towards money depends on the materialism and was different by age, and gender. People have strong tendencies to use money as a symbol of power and status. However, this tendency is stronger in the group of men in comparison to women, in this sample. Adult people was anxious and bothered about their materialism. Independent variable of materialism was important determinant of the attitude towards money in this sample. In sum, some significantly important differences were found among the participants.