• Antecedents and consequences of chronic impulsive buying: Can impulsive buying be understood as dysfunctional self‐regulation? 

      Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark; Dibb, Sally; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Researchers reach different conclusions about the functional or dysfunctional nature of impulsive buying behavior. While many note the use of impulsive buying as a form of mood regulation, there is disagreement about whether ...
    • Money attitudes, financial capabilities, and impulsiveness as predictors of wealth accumulation 

      Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark; Furnham, Adrian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      In this study we examined three correlates of personal wealth–financial capability, buying impulsiveness, and attitudes to money in a large UK adult sample (N = 90,184). We were interested in how these psychological variables ...
    • Money Attitudes, Personality and Chronic Impulse Buying 

      Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This paper reports on a study of the relationship between demographic, personality, and attitudinal variables and impulsive buying (a consumer's tendency to buy spontaneously, unreflectively, and immediately); using secondary ...
    • Personality and political orientation 

      Furnham, Adrian; Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      This study examined the incremental validity of the Big-Five personality traits over primarily demographic factors in predicting Left-Right political orientation (PO) in a large British adult sample. Gender and trait ...
    • Personality and wealth 

      Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark; Furnham, Adrian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      To what extent do personality traits predict wealth in adulthood over and above standard demographic factors? In all 3240 adults in the UK completed a Big Five personality test and reported on their property wealth, savings ...
    • Personality, ideology, and money attitudes as correlates of financial literacy and competence 

      Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      This study looked at whether demographics, religious beliefs, political orientation, personality traits, and money attitudes are correlates of financial capability, knowledge and distress. Over 3,500 British participants ...