According to Ronald Inglehart, post-materialist values are a well-integrated and stable part of the individuals personality, affecting a wide range of attitudes and behaviors. This article focuses on possible effects on the criteria by which individuals evaluate their living conditions; for instance, do materialists - compared to post-materialists - give more weight to such concerns as income or housing standard and less to broader social and political issues, as Inglehart claims? On balance, the results provide some tentative support for Inglehart's theory, although the differences are gen erally small and not always in the expected direction.
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