Imagined interactions, family money management patterns and coalitions, and attitudes toward money and credit

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-1-2007

Abstract

This study explores the imagined interactions college students have with their parents about money and credit, their attitudes toward credit and money, the ways they say their parents deal with financial decisions, and the communication coalitions regarding finances they perceive existing within their family. Students' imagined interaction pleasantness is greatest when parents jointly form a plan for paying off credit card debt and lowest when parents argue. When family coalitions exist, students report more frequent imagined interactions. Imagined interaction frequency and pleasantness are related to credit and money attitudes. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Journal of Family and Economic Issues

First Page

3

Last Page

22

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