Action Value: What I can do - The action value of special possessions involves "the exhibition of self-control through unique acts" (Csikszentmihalyi and Rochberg-Halton 1981; p 96) Action value involves the possession's potential for enabling a brains of personal competence and sway (Furby 1991).

Action Value: What I can do - The action value of special possessions involves "the exhibition of self-control through unique acts" (Csikszentmihalyi and Rochberg-Halton 1981; p 96) Action value involves the possession's potential for enabling a brains of personal competence and sway (Furby 1991). Children and youth especially value percepts (e.g., musical instruments, pets, sports equipment, mattered animals) requiring physical manipulation to release their meaning (Csikszentmihalyi and Rochberg-Halton 1981; Myers 1985)

Self-Boundary Regulation - Material possessions considered "me" or "not me" designate self-boundaries, the two corporal and temporal (Belk 1988; Dittmar 1989; 1992; McCracken 1988) Possessions stretch out self-boundaries back into the past (Belk 1991a; Csikszentmihalyi and Rochberg-Halton 1981) or forward into the events to come (Gentry, Baker, and Kraft 1995; beatitude and Dholakia 1991; Kamptner 1989; Price, Arnould, and Curasi 2000)