lifestyle

lifestyle
The activities, interests, opinions, and values of individuals as they affect their mode of living. Lifestyle reflects more than social class or personality; it provides a profile of a person's whole pattern of behaviour and interaction with the world. Lifestyles are important in marketing because they influence the way in which people elect to make purchases. The technique for measuring lifestyle is part of psychographic segmentation It involves measuring primary characteristics, known as AIO dimensions (activities, interests, and opinions). Lifestyle classifications have been developed out of this, particularly the Values and Lifestyles Typology (VALS), which classifies consumers into nine lifestyle groups. VALS 2 classifies people into eight groups according to their consumption tendencies, i. e. how they spend their time and money.

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  • lifestyle — The term will be familiar to modern readers in the meaning given in the Concise Oxford Dictionary (2006): ‘the way in which a person lives’, although it has a much older, specialized meaning introduced to the language of psychology by the… …   Modern English usage

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  • lifestyle — also life style, 1929, from LIFE (Cf. life) (n.) + STYLE (Cf. style) (n.); originally a specific term used by Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler (1870 1937); broader sense is by 1961 …   Etymology dictionary

  • lifestyle — [n] way of life behavior, conduct, habits, style of living, way of acting; concept 633 …   New thesaurus

  • lifestyle — ► NOUN ▪ the way in which one lives …   English terms dictionary

  • lifestyle — ☆ lifestyle [līf′stīl΄ ] n. the consistent, integrated way of life of an individual as typified by his or her manner, attitudes, possessions, etc.: also sp. life style …   English World dictionary

  • Lifestyle — The term lifestyle was originally coined by Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler in 1929. The current broader sense of the word dates from 1961. [ [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=lifestyle Online Etymology Dictionary ] ] In sociology, a …   Wikipedia

  • lifestyle — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ healthy, unhealthy ▪ active ▪ sedentary ▪ The increase in obesity is a result of poor diet and a sedentary lifestyle. ▪ busy …   Collocations dictionary

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