Perhaps the ultimate issue is in what way investing one's self in material attachments affects well-being.

Perhaps the ultimate issue is in what way investing one's self in material attachments affects well-being, life satisfaction, and happiness (Belk 1992a). What are the opportunity charges of investing one's self into material attachments? in what way do possession attachments encourage or constrain attainment of self-potential, family and cultural preservation, and in this way forth? Do particular kinds of attachments (eg adaptive) be subservient to more useful purposes than other kinds (eg clinging to the past)? Are material attachments substitutes for something otherwise more desirable, or are they singular (and necessary) in their results on self-development and life satisfaction? Is it better to have more or fewer possessions of attachment? What cross-cultural differences relating to station of economic development or cultural values exist?

Summary: The Value of Material Possession AttachmentsThe value of material possession attachment includes benefits and prices Scholars have identified various non-mutually exclusive kinds of value falling into brace basic categories: self-definitional and self-continuity/change. Self-definitional attachments conduce to autobiographical, magical, contemplative, action, self-boundary regulation, and self-cultivation values. Self-continuity/self-change value is meditateed in the temporal continuity and adaptive functions of attachments.