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Revista Mal-estar e Subjetividade – Fortaleza – Vol. VIII – Nº 1 – p. 195-224 – mar/2008 View project
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Received Date: 31 January 2019; Accepted Date: 07 February 2019; Published Date: 00 January 2019
and contextual, but also more ideographic, approaches will be tative study:
necessary to allow us to deepen psychological disorders in the
symbolic use of money [21]. a) Klontz Money Script Inventory (Klontz et al., 2011).
I. To situate the problem of the disorders of financial consump- f) Money Sanity / Pathology Scale (Forman, 1987).
tion behavior in the psychosocial context of the symbolic uses
g) Moneygram Scale (Furnham, von Stumm & Milner, 2014).
of money, both conceptually and empirically, through the elabo-
ration of a broad state-of-art from the theoretical and empirical Task 3: semi-structured interviews with a group of people with
point of view, following a process of sociohistorical contextual- financial consumption problems, complemented with the indi-
ization. vidual application of Moneygram Scale (Furnham, von Stumm
& Milner, 2014) and elaboration of transgenerational financial
II. To carry out empirical studies, of a quantitative and qualita-
genograms using the thematic content analysis tecnique, accord-
tive nature, with significant samples from the psychosocial point
ing to the Braun and Clarke model.
of view (e.g., students of higher education in transition to the la-
bor market and autonomous use of money, people with problems
of indebtedness and / or pathological gambling), with the inten- Conclusion
tion of mapping scientifically the problematic of the appropriate The authors believe that this will be a promising avenue for psy-
and unsuitable uses of money and associated symbolism. chiatric and psychotherapeutic intervention in the field of finan-
III. Adapt to different cultures a set of psychological assessment cial consumption disorders, which increasingly devastate our
tools that can function as diagnostic tools and scientific research communities.
instruments in the field of symbolic uses of money and associat-
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