Using an improved measure of consumers' socially responsible behavior, testing a national sample of 1,503 consumers and being guided by Eagly's 1987 social role theory of sex-based differences in social behavior, support was found for the contention that women exhibit more concern for others and society as consumers in their behavior and decision making.
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