MCADAMS'S THREE-TIERED FRAMEWORK FOR STUDYING PERSONS What do we need to know in order to understand what kind of consumer a person is? ... The third level, life stories, deals with the narratives that people construct to integrate their remembered past, experienced present, and anticipated future into a coherent whole and to develop an identity that provides meaning and purpose to their lives. ... Mowen considers four hierarchical levels of traits that indicate successively narrower behavioral consistencies: elemental traits (the Big Five factors plus material needs, physica...

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; "What may others do to each other here?"; "What may I do to others here?" ; "What are the rules of the game?". ... Within each group there is a history of what is and what is not acceptable behaviour. ... Status-acceptance Relationships Does the relationship with the other person exist because he or she represents a type or a class (as servant, a client, a boss), or has it gained more personal meaning? ...

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