Chih-Ling Liu

TL;DR: In this article, a typology of wellbeing challenges and how consumers manage their everyday self-presentation to attain a sense of wellbeing was developed through the lens of consumption, which can be used to understand the link between self and everyday interactions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the embodied concerns that underpin men's personal grooming practices through which they experience their body as the "existential ground of culture and self" and manage their everyday bodily presentation are analyzed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate individuals' feelings, perceptions, and experiences of cosmetics consumption and identify the constellation of past-present-future relations that have underscored the individuals' intentions, motives and purposes, highlighting the intricacies of how the self changes on a daily basis.

TL;DR: The authors explored the consumption deliberations that consumers undertake for self-presenting when faced with varying interpersonal encounters and found that attachment theory emerged as important in illuminating the tensions participants experienced in pursuing four types of goal-pursuit (intimacy, prevention, performance and authenticity).